As seen from overseas...
Please, don't want to offend no one with my humble opinion, but the shoes thrown at your president (yes, he still IS your president) by an Iraqi journalist are generally presented by the global media (absolutely biased towards Bush) as an act of humiliation that dwarfted what should have been a triumphal farewell. A country as Irak, where until not very long ago its govermnet exterminated its people with poison gas, can nowdays enjoy the freedom for a journalist to throw his shoes to the president of the world's greatest power is a proof of the resounding success of the American intervention, and not of its defeat. What would have been the fate of a journalist that would have thrown his shoes at Fidel Castro, Commander Chávez or Saddam Hussein himself? Would have any one of them have credited a hostile media representative into a press conference? Yes, I really think Bushe's farewell was triumphal in terms of the liberties which, after the US intervention, the Iraqi people can nowdays enjoy, unimaginable just a few years back.
Emilio
