Iraqi journalist to Bush: This is the Iraqi people΄s "kiss-good-by" you dog

An Iraqi reporter called U.S. President George W. Bush a "dog" and threw his shoes at him on Sunday, sullying a farewell visit to Baghdad meant to mark greater security in Iraq after years of bloodshed.
Citizens in Baghdad have ennobled the Iraqi reporter Montadhar Zaidi who shocked the world by hurling his shoes at the visiting US president, who had come to the war-torn country to say farewell.
Sitting in the third row at a press conference attended by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, the reporter 'jumped up' and shouted in Arabic "this is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, dog," and hurled his shoes. One of the shoes sailed over the president's head and slammed into the wall behind him and he had to duck to miss the other one. Maliki tried to block the second shoe with his arm.
Just weeks before he bequeaths the unpopular Iraq war to President-elect Barack Obama, Bush sought to underline improved security by landing in daylight and venturing out beyond the city's heavily fortified international Green Zone.
The sole of shoes are considered the ultimate insult in Arab culture.
Bush said: "All I can report is it is a size 10," according to his office.
Iraqi security staff 'frog marched' the journalist out.
Iraqi television responded by demanding the immediate release of the al-Baghdadia correspondent and called on authorities to respect the right of the detained in exercising "freedom of expression".
"Al-Baghdadia television demands that the Iraqi authorities immediately release their stringer Muntadhar Zaidi, in line with the democracy and freedom of expression that the American authorities promised the Iraqi people," reads a statement released by the station.
Baghdad citizens also voiced approval over the stunning act and raked the police over the coals for the arrest.