Shoes off to Bush!

The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes towards Bush has suddenly become the icon of Iraqi feelings towards US occupation and rightly so...People from US and west may call it an uncivilized display of emotions but who decides what's civilized?? In Iraqi culture hitting someone with a shoe is a strong insult. It means the person is as low as the dirt underneath the sole of a shoe. If that's what the journalist feels about Bush, he communicated it in best possible way and in line with his culture!

No amount of harsh words, insults, contempt (and shoes) can be enough to represent Iraqi people's anger towards a false and greedy war that promised people freedom (oil excluded) at intolerable human cost...

I can sympathize with the journalist’s anger and anguish and I’m even impressed with his courage and presence of mind. I am sure there must be lot of people(specially journalists) around the who world would have felt ‘oh why didn’t I think of this’

The only saving grace for Bush would be to have the courage to say that the journalist, while exercising his freedom of expression acted as per what he felt was right. And though his behavior may not be ‘civilized’ as per western standards, there was nothing criminal about it and hence let him free. But knowing america's propensity to hypocrisy and changing definitions of freedom and democracy, that's a remote possibility...

Also it makes one wonder about how much has really changed in Iraq for anyone who does not agree with the administration???