Contempt

An Iraqi journalist expresses the sentiment of many Iraqis:

Juan Cole explains who the journalist was:

Baghdadiya, based in Cairo, Egypt, supports the Sunni Arab insurgents fighting the US and the al-Maliki government. Al-Zaidi shouted "This is a farewell kiss!" as he launched his size tens, then kept shouting "Dog, dog!" (In Arabic, it would be ibn al-kalb or son of a dog, equivalent to English s.o.b.; for color you can say ‘son of a thousand dogs!’)

Five years ago, the shoes were directed toward statues and images of Saddam. And so "Iraq" moves forward …