I’d like to see George Bush petition for clemency in the shoe throwers case - that would take all the martyrdom wind out of this guys sails.

Of course the letter should include a reminder that freedom of speech is at the foundation of a free democratic society et al. and is at the heart of the liberation of Iraq from a brutal dictator.

This gutless sandal chucker is lucky he did this in a free Iraq otherwise he’d be just another layer of goo lining Sadam’s stump grinder.