 enough – foto by smith I have a new hero – Muntazer (or Muntadar or Muthathar or Muntadhar or Muntader) al-Zaidi. He works for Iraqi al-Baghdadiya television, and during an Iraqi press conference he took off his shoes and threw them at George W. Bush. As he threw the first shoe, he shouted, “This is a farewell kiss, you dog.” With the second shoe he yelled, “This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq.” The five different spellings of al-Zaidi’s name come from five different online news sites. Makes one wonder about their accuracy. Makes one think the white world doesn’t much care about checking out how to spell brown-skinned people’s names. Throwing shoes at someone is a gesture of utter contempt in Iraqi culture. It means the person is as low as the dirt underneath the sole of a shoe. That certainly sums up Bush in my book, although you’d have to toss in treason, theft, lies, mass murder, illegal invasion, and a host of other sins for a complete picture of Bush and his puppet-master Cheney. To make them semi-human, you’d need to add a brain to Bush and a heart to Cheney. I would have been even happier had both of al-Zaidi’s shoes hit Bush, and ecstatic had the cowardly Bush dropped dead of fright. Last month, crowds of Iraqis in Ferdous Square pelted an effigy of Bush with their shoes. I’d prefer they’d used rocks and rolls. We need to pelt the CheneyBush Beast. Or de-pelt them.  killer – foto by smith |