Angry Iraqi Man Throws Shoes at President Bush

[Ides Of March]

During a news conference in Baghdad, an angry Iraqi threw shoes at President Bush's head. He was screaming insults at the president in Arabic and had to be dragged out of the room. It is apparently a huge insult to have shoes thrown at one's head in the Middle Eastern culture. I have the story here:

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/14/bush.iraq/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail

and there's a video of Bush dodging the shoes:

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/12/14/vo.bush.shoe.pool.cnn

Why do things like this happen and what are your opinions of this occurrence?

 

[i am a teddy]

He's a ninja! I KNEW IT ALL ALONG! Hence his poor leadership. It conflicted with his ninja missions, causing lack of care for US.

 

[Zerg006]

Here's another video of it.

http://www.break.com/index/iraqi-journalist-throws-shoes-at-bush.html

Apparently it was a journalist who threw the shoes