Shoe-shine goes mad in Baghdad!

George Bush got a parting shot in Baghdad. Some reporter thre his shoes at the outgoing president. I have to say he was pretty nifty with the shoulder dodge. "So what if the guy threw a shoe at me?"

However, this democratic expression of free speech (or free shoe throwing) should not be taken as a right to clamp down on people. At most the journalist should get no more than a similar punishment meted out in London or Washington.

Now the Iraqi regime has the prospect of thousands of people out on the streets. Maybe they can swap notes with the Greeks?

Posted in: free speech,George Bush,Iraq