Shoe-Thrower Charged With Laughably Phony Crime

They're probably too flustered to know how to respond. Anywhere else in the Middle East, they would be able to figure out the charge afterwards.
It's an assault and he deserves cell time and a photo op with Dan Rather.

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' “Insulting the Iraqi state,” whatever that means. '

I'm sure there is an abundance of riches here, meaningwise, but to single out one thread in particular, M. az-Zaydí's one-man circus means that the former al-‘Iráq has at last been restored to normalcy. So sing “Mission Accomplished!” if the spirit moves you.

The restoration is to a Greater Levant sort of normalcy, naturally, and not to the Vermont League of Women Voters sort. (But hey, let's take what we can get!)

Gen. Mubárak at Cairo and _les altesses royales du Ryad_ and all the rest of 'em would be perpetual targets for shoe-flinging street Arabs if they had not long since learned how to stay out of range.

Part of how to stay out of range is to have strict laws against defamation of the State on the books and make sure that these laws are enforced with exemplary vigour.

To ‘insult’ the ex-‘Iráqí (or any other Greater Levantine) State I take to involve defaming It to Its face, an offense of which M. az-Zaydí might possibly be acquitted on a technicality — depends on what he actually hollered — though any fool can see that he would have liked to do it.

Will there be a Stalinoid show trial? I'd guess there will not be, considering how young and precarious the neonormalcy of the former al-‘Iráq is. Mostly likely poor M. az-Zaydí will simply drop out of sight, either relegated to a sort of domestic ‘rendition’ or let out of his dungeon or Forward Operatin’ Base on condition that he promises never, ever to be heard from again.

Either way Human Rights Watch ought to try to watch it happen, but I doubt they will be able to.

HRW is a much greater threat to neonormalcy than isolated shoe-flinging individuals. If the present staff and management of “the Iraqi State” keep their eye on the ball, they will see that it is even more exemplary to make sure that HRW cannot interfere with their own GOP-given unaccountable liberty of management — which of course they will defend as ‘national’ ‘sovereignty’ — than to get back at Muntazar az-Zaydí personally. Later on, when (presumably) rather fewer of their subjects will passionately desire to throw things at them and at their paleface patrons, there will be time enough for that.

Supposing they do let him out, I guess M. az-Zaydí would do well to rush to London (for instance) and stay there for the next eighty-five years or so, just in case.

Merry days

Iraqis are mad that the dude's shoe hit the Iraqi flag after Bush ducked.

This has confused me. Are not the Shiite's the largest benefactor of our Trillion dollar efforts there? Did we not hand over Saddam Hussein to them.and stop his mass murder control policies? Has not our police force halted the kind of killing fields that existed before our invasion? As poorly as he and I understand each other, I think the punishment should fit the crime. He should have to sit in carnival dunk tanks for two years, It would be a probationary type of punishment, so his new fans would not be so upset. And they will throw shoes at the dunk target with his face painted on it… Perhaps the first thrower should be GW.Bush. Maybe he could visit Ellen D.

I hope everything works out ok for him

I hope that zaidi is not tortured during interrogation.

It was a historic moment for the iraqi people after the way they were killed first by saddam husein and then bush.

That poor guy must be in lot of trouble. I am surprised how did george bush manage to duck two shoes in succession?. wii

Hope he will not get so much trouble. Now he is a hero for his people – but now he has to live with the negative consequences too…

If only all the people in the world accept English as a universal language I think some crime like this can be avoided because they will understand each other.

Its a far cry