Two Shoes for the War Criminal

My heart leaps with pride for Mutadar al-Zeidi. God bless this brave journalist, who has survived the Hussein dictatorship, the American invasion and occupation, kidnapping and torture. Will he survive throwing two shoes at George W Bush, though?

How fitting that Bush, showing up in Iraq and speaking of America's dependability, is greeted with the queen of all Iraqi insults. After hurling his shoes and screaming "this is your farewell kiss, you dog!", Mr al-Zeidi was tackled to the floor, and hauled, bleeding profusely, from the room. He is still in the custody of Nouri al-Maliki's guards, leading journalists across the middle-east and grateful citizens around the world to stand in demand for his release.

Throughout his mid-east tour, Bush has uttered such salt in the wound statements as "the war is not over; it is decisively on its way to being won". While he was ducking shoes, Bush looked completely at ease, like he was having a pillow fight. He said later that he does not feel that "you can take one guy throwing his shoes and say this represents a broad movement in Iraq. You can try to do that if you want but I don't think that would be accurate"...cos you know how informed Bush is! "You were more concerned than I was" Bush went on to joke with the assembled press core; "I'm pretty good at ducking, as most of you know. I'm talking about ducking your questions".

Bush, the Hitler of our generation, has been loudly and confidently espousing his belief and praise of the War on "Terror" and his belief, indeed faith, that our next President will continue his policies. He strolled through his war torn legacy, all smiles and ease, spewing the greatness of America, and how much better off the Iraqi and Afghani People are today than they were eight years ago.

And how many deluded Americans still praise this man? How many "patriotic" Americans still rally behind this beast? Today, they will be calling Mr al-Zeidi, who has survived so much, a terrorist, a crazy man. They will still be saluting the War on "Terror" and the loss of the Bill of Rights as the cost of the "post 9/11 world". These sad, uninformed Americans are just as culpable as the uninformed, push over "patriots" that allowed the Nazi party to rise to power, subvert the rule of law, and launch pre-emptive "nationl security" wars.

I salute you, Mutadar al-Zeidi. You have spoken loudly, bravely-and we who cherish freedom above profit shall sing your name with honor.