SHOE-THROWING MUNTADHAR AL-ZEIDI RELEASED FROM JAIL IN IRAQ: A HERO FOR OUR TIME

POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL

Muntadhar al-Zeidi will always be a genuinely heroic figure.

Bush was never in any danger from the shoes, but that brave man spoke eloquently for a great part of the world with his one brief act.

Think of all the cowards in "the Land of the Free" who never made any genuine, meaningful protest against mass murder in their names.

And here, in a country that remains anything but free, a country shattered by American military brutality, one man made the only meaningful gesture in eight years against a genuine war criminal.