Saturday, August 29, 2009
Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi journalist and folk hero in the Arab world, who was jailed after hurling his shoes at former President George W. Bush, will be released next month after his sentence was reduced for good behavior, his lawyer said Saturday.
Anger over the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, was said to be what motivated Muntadhar al-Zeidi to target Bush during his last visit to Iraq as president.
The act of defiance elevated an obscure reporter from a minor TV station into a national hero to many Iraqis (and many in the U.S. too) fed up with the nearly six-year American occupation of Iraq.
From the Left 
If the shoe fits, throw it.
I hope one day Muntadhar al-Zeidi bares his sole.
Too bad Muntadhar al-Zeidi missed that heel, huh?
He’s a great man.
Brave, courageous and if only he was a slightly better thrower — maybe if he had used a brick? The weight would have allowed the object to travel faster and hit Bush in his arrogant face.
He’s a shoe in for Iraqi Man of the Year.
He’s a shoe in for Iraqi Man of the Year.
Hahahahaha! Good one!
I get a kick from Muntadhar al-Zeidi.
When they mint the new Iraqi currency, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, belong on their $100 bill.
President Muntadhar al-Zeidi?
Oh, the irony of him traveling to Washington to meet with the U.S. Congress and the president to ask for more American tax dollars to help rebuild his nation destroyed by our military and Halliburton.
Too bad our troops are still in Iraq.
He’s a folk hero HERE, in the USA!
and now that we know it is just fine to throw shoes at the President, we will continue with this great patriotic tradition?
I think if somebody threw a shoe at your Messiah, you would be baying for their blood. Which makes you just the teeniest, tiniest hypocritical.
Well, that and brain-dead