These Are The Shoes Of FREEDOM!

I try to stick with reliable sources but this one seems harmless enough even though it comes from Fox "news":

First lady Laura Bush said she was offended by the recent "assault" on her husband, who had two shoes thrown at him during a recent visit to Iraq. At the same time, however, she said the assault shows that Iraqis feel a lot freer than they did before.

"I know that if Saddam Hussein had been there the man wouldn't have been released, and probably would've been executed," she said of the Iraqi journalist, who was arrested following the Dec. 14 incident and has been in custody since.

Ah, Laura, I hardly ever pick on you but really now, the "assault" shows that Iraqis feel a lot freer than they did before?

In case you haven't noticed, the man was arrested (rightly so), beaten, had his hand broken, was forced to make a false confession implicating an "enemy" of the Iraqi leaders as the "ringleader" of the shoe throwing incident, and has NOT been released. Whether or not he will be executed, time will tell.

But if it makes you feel better to believe that Iraqis now feel free enough to throw a shoe, then you go right ahead, dear. And you just go right ahead and ignore all those Iraqis who are "offended" that your husband ordered the invasion of their country and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Laura, feel "free" to keep ranting about those bad Iraqis "assaulting" your husband with shoes.