Reuters news from New Zealand website explains shoe anger properly.

[go west young man]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4793365a12.html

An Iraqi reporter has called visiting US President George W Bush a "dog" in Arabic and threw his shoes at him during a news conference in Baghdad.


Iraqi security officers and US secret service agents leapt at the man and dragged him struggling and screaming out of the room where Bush was giving a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

The shoes missed their target about 4.5 metres away. One sailed over Bush's head as he stood next to Maliki and smacked into the wall behind him. Bush smiled uncomfortably and Maliki looked strained.

"It doesn't bother me," Bush said, urging everyone to calm down as a ruckus broke out in the conference room.

When asked about the incident shortly after, Bush made light of it. "I didn't feel the least threatened by it," he said.

Other Iraqi journalists apologised on behalf of their colleague, a television journalist.

Bush arrived in Baghdad earlier on Sunday on a farewell visit before he leaves office in January. The US-led invasion in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein triggered years of sectarian bloodshed and insurgency in Iraq, killing tens of thousands.


I've noticed a different take from a lot of the US press. It seems they have to laways defend Bush's actions in Iraq whereas this article clearly states "The US-led invasion in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein triggered years of sectarian bloodshed and insurgency in Iraq, killing tens of thousands."
I don't think you would see such blatant honesty from our own lousy excuse for a press.