Remember when the man threw his shoes at Bush?
And for a brief moment you laughed out loud, because it was funny as hell, but then you sobered up really quickly, because you thought of why the man had done it and that he was going to suffer terribly for it.
On February 19, 2009, al-Zaidi told the Baghdad Central Criminal Court that he acted spontaneously after listening to Bush praise the "achievements" made in Iraq: "While he was talking I was looking at all his achievements in my mind. More than a million killed, the destruction and humiliation of mosques, violations against Iraqi women, attacking Iraqis every day and every hour. A whole people are saddened because of his policy, and he was talking with a smile on his face - and he was joking with the prime minister and saying he was going to have dinner with him after the press conference. Believe me, I didn't see anything around me except Bush. I was blind to anything else. I felt the blood of the innocent people bleeding from beneath his feet and he was smiling in that way. And then he was going to have a dinner, after he destroyed one million martyrs, after he destroyed the country. So I reacted to this feeling by throwing my shoes. I couldn't stop the reaction inside me. It was spontaneous."
We had just elected Barack Obama a month before this and I really thought this country had learned it’s lesson and wouldn’t ever consider electing anyone as dangerously stupid as Bush ever again.
Boy was I wrong.