About six years ago, after the fall of Saddam regime in Iraq, people came to the streets and gathered in the central square of Baghdad where a big statue of Saddam Hussain was brought down to the earth and people started beating the fallen statue on their shoes. The media in whole world broadcasted those footage, terming it as the insult of an ousted dictator, while presenting the americans as Hero.
Now after six years, the American President Mr.Bush (the person who gave "Freedom" to the people of Iraq from the Saddam regime) is leaving his office. Before leaving the office, he did made a farewell visit to the "Free and stable" country of Iraq. During a press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister, the "Hero" of Iraqi people, was greeted by a thankful Iraqi with both of his shoes. Commenting on this act, the Mr.Bush, the freedom giver, said that he don't know why that man thrown
the shoes on him.
May be he really don't know. But in my thinking, this is the Iraqi way of giving farewell to an outgoing leader, as they did with the fallen Saddam statue six years ago, after the end of his regime. But if according to media, those Iraqi people hitting Saddam statue by shoes were showing their hatred and were insulting him, then surely what is done with Mr. Bush by an Iraqi may also have the seem meening???
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