via Iraqi Shoe Thrower To Seek Swiss Asylum.
GENEVA — A Swiss lawyer working on behalf of the Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush said Monday his client will seek political asylum in Switzerland.
Good! If anyone deserves asylum, it’s this guy. If only he had anticipated the direction in which Bush dodged the shoe.
Geneva-based lawyer Mauro Poggia said Muntadhar al-Zeidi’s life is in danger if he stays in Iraq.
Al-Zeidi’s gesture of anger at Bush turned the employee of a minor TV station into a national hero to many Iraqis fed up with America’s six-year presence in the country. But concern has been raised about his safety after allegations that he had been severely beaten and tortured in detention.
Muntadhar al-Zeidi
The biggest insult is to the Iraqi people. The neo-con free market philosophy has been implemented as planned. Mission accomplished. All their government run enterprises such as their oil industry has been given away to free enterprise.
From Green Left online:
Agence France Presse reported on June 12 [2004] that Washington planned to “privatise the first of Iraq’s 100 or so state-owned firms within a year as it begins overhauling the centralised economy of Saddam Hussein without waiting for a new government”.
The coalition government handed over the state-owned entities, such as the government controlled banking sector and other services like the national oil company, to private enterprise. This also included the pharmaceutical industry. Instead of low-cost safe drugs, the Iraqis get what we get – dangerous drugs that include death as a side effect at the highest prices possible. You can thank Rumsfeld and Cheney for “improving” Iraq.
A member of Medecins Sans Frontiers, the international medical relief agency, responded: “Kimadia [the Iraqi state-run pharmaceutical company] may not have worked efficiently, but it made low-cost medicine available to patients who needed it.”
They should line up all the neo-cons including Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush, Wolfowitz, Kristol, and the rest down a long street in Baghdad and let all the people walk by and slap them with shoes.
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