"Here is your goodbye kiss, dog!"

You've probably already seen it by now, but I don't mind—this is just too wonderful to pass up:

Thank you, Iraqi hero.

But the best part: moments later Bush suffered the even greater humiliation of signing the Status of Forces agreement that he'd fought against tooth and nail for the past eleven months, which may well finally release Iraq from the deadly embrace of the United States.  For a walk down memory lane, here's what Bush wanted and here's what he got (pdf).

Comments

[just a guy]

"AlJazeera (Arabic) is reporting that up to a 100 Arab lawyers have volunteered to defend the shoe throwing Iraqi journalist."
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2008/12/in-defense-of-shoe.html

[SteveB]

Patrick Cockburn has a piece about the withdrawal agreement up on Counterpunch. Here's my favorite sentence:

America’s bid to act as the world’s only super-power and to establish quasi-colonial control of Iraq, an attempt which began with the invasion of 2003, has ended in failure.

Of course, Bush's spin is quite the opposite. At his shoe-dodging press conference in Baghdad, he was claiming the withdrawal agreement as a great victory, and vindication for his invasion of Iraq.

Let's see... Patrick Cockburn or George W. Bush: which one should I believe?

And I wonder if shoe-throwing could catch on in the U.S.? If Bush ever gets within two hundred miles of my home, I promise to go there and throw a shoe at the bastard myself.

[fred ludd]

Zaidi has a Facebook page. Over night, he gained a thousand fans, two hundred in the last hour.

[fred ludd]

I guess I should have left a link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/-/40778818468

[John Caruso]

The latest comment on there (from "Ruqia") is wonderful: "you are crown on our heads."

[cemmcs]

What's so funny about this? I throw my shoe at ther t.v. everytime Bush comes on. Doesn't everyone?

[KDelphi]

When I first saw it, I thought it might be a Reqaan/Iran/Contra hand grenade...

nope--a shoe

[cemmcs]

This didn't take long, did it? Poor guy.