Bush dodges a shoe attack!!

[GeneW]

Apparently the guy who tossed the shoes is a hero in some parts of the Arab world. Tossing shoes at someone is a grave insult over there. Means that you're less than the dirt under someone's feet.

He supposed had the crap beaten out of him by police and faces seven years in the jug for "attacking a visiting head of state". I think that's way too over done as a punishment. He ought to get credit for the beating and be sent on his way. It's not like the guy produced a firearm and started blasting or some other violent attack.

Most Americans probably did not care too much or did not understand the significance of it. I have read online that quite a few Arabs were curious about the "opinion of Americans".

This American was amused by the whole thing. The man did not toss shoes at me personally. I do wish that the US would formulate an exit strategy from Iraq and act upon it with dispatch. We really need to get out of the nation building business, it's destroying what we are and could be.

Gene