Bush and the size 10 shoes

Today it's all over the news that on Bush's last public appearance in Iraq as President of the United States, he was met with a pair of shoes traveling at great speed in the direction of his head by an Iraqui journalist saying something like "this is a goodbye you dog". 

My first reaction was appalled. The President of any nation, no matter what his political views are, should be respected in public no matter what. But then I thought to myself... if this was Saddam Hussein standing there, wouldn't I wanna throw a shoe at him? Let's get more personal... what if it was Fidel Castro? I'm Cuban-Italian and my family left Cuba a long time ago when the revolution broke out. Now after everything he's done to the Cuban people, wouldn't I wanna throw a shoe at him? God, probably worse...  I would wanna practice a circus act that required daggers and use him as my blindfolded model standing in front of the bull's eye. Then, I think again and I say, NO, because "what is this world coming to" if we don't maintain a certain kind of appropriate behavior, as difficult as it might be considering our feelings toward the person in question, towards the leaders of our nations.

I gotta say though it was pretty fucking funny. I think dogging those shoes was the only move Bush has made that I've been impressed by.

I wonder what they're going to do with the guy? Click here to watch.