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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)
A man identified as an Iraqi journalist threw shoes at -- but missed -- President Bush during a news conference Sunday evening in Baghdad, where Bush was making a farewell visit.Bush ducked, and the shoes, flung one at a time, sailed past his head during the news conference with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in his palace in the heavily fortified Green Zone.
The shoe-thrower -- identified as Muntadhar al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist with Egypt-based al-Baghdadia television network -- could be heard yelling in Arabic: "This is a farewell ... you dog!"
While pinned on the ground by security personnel, he screamed: "You killed the Iraqis!"
Al-Zaidi was dragged away. While al-Zaidi was still screaming in another room, Bush said: "That was a size 10 shoe he threw at me, you may want to know."
Hurling shoes at someone, or sitting so that the bottom of a shoe faces another person, is considered an insult among Muslims.
Al-Baghdadia issued a statement Sunday demanding al-Zaidi's release.
Al-Zaidi drew international attention in November 2007 when he was kidnapped while on his way to work in central Baghdad. He was released three days later.
Bush had been lauding the conclusion of a security pact with Iraq as journalists looked on.
"So what if the guy threw his shoe at me?" Bush told a reporter in response to a question about the incident.
"Let me talk about the guy throwing his shoe. It's one way to gain attention. It's like going to a political rally and having people yell at you. It's like driving down the street and having people not gesturing with all five fingers. ...
"These journalists here were very apologetic. They ... said this doesn't represent the Iraqi people, but that's what happens in free societies where people try to draw attention to themselves."
Bush then directed his comments to the security pact, which he and al-Maliki were preparing to sign, hailing it as "a major achievement" but cautioning that "there is more work to be done."
"All this basically says is we made good progress, and we will continue to work together to achieve peace," Bush said.
Bush's trip was to celebrate the conclusion of the security pact, called the Strategic Framework Agreement and the Status of Forces Agreement, the White House said.
The pact will replace a U.N. mandate for the U.S. presence in Iraq that expires at the end of this year. The agreement, reached after months of negotiations, sets June 30, 2009, as the deadline for U.S. combat troops to withdraw from all Iraqi cities and towns. The date for all U.S. troops to leave Iraq is December 31, 2011.
Bush called the passage of the pact "a way forward to help the Iraqi people realize the blessings of a free society."
Bush said the work "hasn't been easy, but it has been necessary for American security, Iraqi hope and world peace."
Bush landed at Baghdad International Airport on Sunday and traveled by helicopter to meet with President Jalal Talabani and his two vice presidents at Talabani's palace outside the Green Zone.
It marked the first time he has been outside the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad without being on a military base.
The visit was Bush's fourth since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
Afterward, Talabani praised his U.S. counterpart as a "great friend for the Iraqi people" and the man "who helped us to liberate our country and to reach this day, which we have democracy, human rights, and prosperity gradually in our country."
Talabani said he and Bush, who is slated to leave office next month, had spoken "very frankly and friendly" and expressed the hope that the two would remain friends even "back in Texas."
For his part, Bush said he had come to admire Talabani and his vice presidents "for their courage and for their determination to succeed."
As the U.S. and Iraqi national anthems played and Iraqi troops looked on, he and the Iraqi president walked along a red carpet. Bush left Iraq on Sunday night and arrived Monday morning in Afghanistan, where he will met with President Hamid Karzai and speak with U.S. troops.
In remarks to reporters, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, who traveled with Bush, described the situation in Iraq as "in a transition."
"For the first time in Iraq's history and really the first time in the region, you have Sunni, Shia and Kurds working together in a democratic framework to chart a way forward for their country," he said.

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[gh3freak1000]

Fricken Bush Is Going MATRIX

:P

[Method775]

This man who throwed the shoe to bush is Maltreated and becuz of that he has broken his arms but there are people who want to buy those shoes for 50 milion!!!!!!

[newjack31622]

@rockinandout You really dont know shit about the US economy.Obama sold out on the Bush tax cuts,true, but it took years to fuck up the economy this bad and the recession started under BUSH, as did the 2 biggest wars. Again, Obama sucks overall but Bush was a disaster we are still paying for. To miss him and his crew of corruption is fucking laughable. Oh,and while Obama isnt "fixing" the economy its the sellout Dems in Congress and the Republicans who are doing the most harm to the economy now.

[rockinandout]

@newjack31622 i mean starting a 3rd war as well as crashing the economy...again and possibly even worse this time. id say hes worse. and again can you point to a single time when obama has stood next to a set of principles versus just settling? no? didnt thinks so.

[newjack31622]

@rockinandout LOL! What a hilarious comment. I really hope that was a joke. For your sake. Both parties are the problem, Obama has been weak but come the fuck on with the "I miss Bush" crap. Broken economy and endless war. Yeah, what a great 8 years that was right? Hilarious. Obama may suck but he has an extremely long way to go to fuck up the country as bad as the last crew did. He and his may be on their way but lets wait until it actually happens before saying we "miss" scum like BushCorp.

[rockinandout]

Fucking ninja. I miss bush, if nothing else the man was principled and a leader, o'bummer just kinda flows with the wind and "leads from behind" or as the rest of us call it, follows.

[MrSinner1981]

@SupremeARA915 no one hates america u idiot i was talking about Bush,not United states!!!!,my point was just like saddam was sent to jail and hanged for the crimes he did against his own ppl (kurds or arabs) so Bush should face the same thing .he darg the whole fuckin nation to a war that cost lifes of iraqis and americans.now iraq is left with no power no water and no fuckin security.

[SupremeARA915]

@MrSinner1981 Why do the kurds love america? saddam's mission was to destroy every single kurd, and he did have weapons he used them on the innocent kurds

[MrSinner1981]

@SupremeARA915 dude r an idiot or u another sucker?,who loves Bush?,that white clown is a war criminal,he's just like sadam,all those soldiers died because of him and u ppl ain't doin shit about him either united states was the best ally to Saddam's regime back in the eightys ,Iraq has nothin 2 do with 9/11 and didn't have MWD and what happend against the kurds was in 1990,so the beef was between Bush family and saddam,nothing eles,i didn't like sadam but i was at least safe in my country.

[SupremeARA915]

@MrSinner1981America freed the poor kurds, the ppl Sadam bombed and persucuted for years and you iraquis did not do shit,so we americans did something about it,ask any kurrdish person, they love USA and bush

[MrSinner1981]

@Kamalkakay Bush didn't free shit you cock sucker.......stop sucking dicks you faggot....i am from iraq and I tell ya the situation is worse now, million of ppl died,displaced and immigrated because of that white monkey,we as the iraqi ppl, should have done somethin against Saddam's govermnent like the ppl in egypt or Libya for example,and not letting other country to do it for us, and the worst part is we were busy looting the fucking country instead of working together to rebuild it.so fuck u