so, in case you missed it yesterday, an iraqi journalist threw his shoes at dubya yesterday when he made a surprise visit to baghdad.
bush brushed it off, "i don't know what his beef is." this appalling lack of knoweledge of arab culture astounds me. now, i didn't know that it was such an insult until baghdad fell in 2003. i remember videos of iraqis smacking statues and posters of hussein with their shoes and learning about the insult.
i was going to get into it more, but the BBC beat me to the punch. read it here.
the discussion below the article on al-jazeera is a little bit more telling about how insulated he is from the realities of his international disrepute.
36 days until this cyst is out of office...
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