Hats off to Muntazer al-Zaidi, the 28 year-old Iraqi journalist who managed to express what so many others around the world would love to say, which is that US president George W. Bush is a despicable dog who has caused untold suffering with his incredibly stupid and self-serving actions. He still doesn't recognize that he's disgraced the country and the office of the president. He's promoted the convenient (to him and his ilk) lie that it doesn't take intelligence to run an organization. The result of that attitude shows in FEMA and Bear Stearns and the Department of Homeland Security and Freddie Mac and Sarah Palin.
Mr. al-Zaidi is an Iraqi journalist who managed to be in a room where Bush was giving an ad hoc news conference, lauding the Iraqi people's committment to "fray-dumb" and basically filling up his time until he's finally ushered out of Washington in a couple of weeks. Expressing a reaction which I dare say is shared by a huge swath of people from Asia to Zurich to Little Rock, he threw first one shoe (which Bush had to duck to avoid being beaned by) and then removed and threw the other one (which was off the mark).
Thanks, Mr. Bush, for eight years of service during which the American people were sold out-- their values and their money-- and disgraced around the world. It may take fifty years to undo the damage you've done. It may take a hundred. Please go away so we can get on with it. And free al-Zaidi. He was just saying-- in the most expressive way allowed him-- what a majority in the entire world think.
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