Shoe thrower said bush's "bloodless & soulless smile" & joking banter provoked him.

[Philosoraptor]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/19/iraq.shoe.thrower/index.html

Muntadher al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist on trial for throwing his shoes last year at then-President George W. Bush, said the former American leader's "bloodless and soulless smile" and his joking banter provoked him.

Al-Zaidi threw both of his shoes at Bush during a December news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad. Neither shoe hit the president, and other people in the room quickly knocked al-Zaidi to the ground before security officials arrested him.

He explained his actions in an hour-long appearance on Thursday at the Central Criminal Court of Iraq. Asked if anyone pushed or motivated him to do this, al-Zaidi said he was spurred on by the "violations that are committed against the Iraqi people."

"I could only see Bush and feel the blood of the innocents flow under his feet, as he was smiling that smile -- as if he had come to bid farewell to Iraq and with the last support and more than 1 million martyrs," al-Zaidi said. "At that moment, I felt this is the man who killed our nation ... the main murderer and the main person responsible for killing our nation." Watch more on the trial »

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This man is my HERO! I remember all too painfully that smirk and that giggling monster always cracking lame, unfunny jokes while murdering over a million innocent people. It's the smirking and the giggling that always got to me the most, and brought out my hatred the worst. The whole world should throw it's shoes at this fucker, all at the same fucking time.

[boobooday]

1. The shoe thrower has the same elegance of speech that he displayed

in gesture.

[RandomKoolzip]

2. He DID have that effect on a lot of people.

[gratuitous]

3. I'm right there, Muntadher

Bloodless and soulless fits that man like Michael Jackson's glove.

[predfan]

4. Welcome to a VERY large club.

[YOY]

5. If there had been some kind of nobility behind the war...

Then Bush could have been at least somber about it all...instead always with that smirk and joking. I wonder if Al-Zaidi realizes that most of the American troops there are just as much victims of Preznit Zippy the tool and his war profiteers as well.

[NC_Nurse]

6. I can't tell you how many times I felt the same way. I had to stop watching

his appearances to keep my blood pressure down.

[NNN0LHI]

7. This guy felt the same way I did for years on end

Man did I ever want to wipe that smirk off that mofos face.

Don

[lpbk2713]

8. That's something we have in common.

And I don't even know the guy. :shrug:

[Blues Heron]

9. K&R for Muntadher!

[Mira]

10. K & R brave man - calling it correctly.

[seemslikeadream]

11. I can't count the times his "bloodless & soulless smile" & joking banter provoked me

but alas I was not within throwing range

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. I expect many TV screens have been subjected to shoe throwing over the years!

the acid smile

[janet118]

13. I kept a supply of shoes close by . . .

everytime I watched that creep on tv.