The Story of My Shoe

My Flower to Bush, the Occupier

By MUTADHAR al-ZAIDI
CounterPunch

Mutadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi who threw his shoe at George Bush gave this speech on his recent release:

"......But, simply, I answer: What compelled me to confront is the injustice that befell my people, and how the occupation wanted to humiliate my homeland by putting it under its boot.

And how it wanted to crush the skulls of (the homeland's) sons under its boots, whether sheikhs, women, children or men. And during the past few years, more than a million martyrs fell by the bullets of the occupation and the country is now filled with more than 5 million orphans, a million widows and hundreds of thousands of maimed. And many millions of homeless because of displacement inside and outside the country......."