Show Our Heels to Iraq

Show Them Our Heels!

The President of the United States went to Iraq to say goodbye to the American troops who served so valiantly there trying to free the Iraqi people and to try to prop up the Iraqi government.

A well-known newspaper man, who was permitted to attend the president’s remarks, rose from his seat and threw two shoes at Mr. Bush.

Now iraq is hearing from many of their citizens and from other middle eastern countries who want them to release this man from prison. Many say they saw it as an ideal parting gift to the unpopular US president.

“Colleagues of Muntazer al-Zaidi, who works for independent Iraqi television station Al-Baghdadia, said he "detested America" and had been plotting such an attack for months against the man who ordered the invasion of his country.” (Breitbart news).

I find it interesting that mr. al-zaidi would be dead if he tried such a stunt when saddam Hussein was in power. And before he died, he would have been tortured in ways too horrible to mention.

America tried to help mr. al-zaidi and his pals from such treatment. Their memory is very short and their gratitude non-existent.

The Iraqi government could not secure a small room for president bush. The shoes mentioned in this article could just as easily have been a gun or a knife. This speaks volumes to me about their readiness to take control of their own government. They are ill prepared, ill advised and loaded with ill will.

I wish President Bush, prior to the end of his term, would show the Iraqis the heels of our shoes by ordering an exodus of American troops from that country.

I have long opposed a retreat in iraq. I know the consequences of such an act. But I have tired of the lack of appreciation of the Iraqi leaders in particular and friendly arab states in general for the sacrifices of so many American families.

Let them go it alone. They deserve one another.