No longer, as evidenced by this incident. The Mideast has been changed, for the better, forever, by Bush.
P.S. - Bush sure does move quick, and he comes up smiling. Same guy that threw the post 9/11 strike at Yankee stadium. The kind of guy you want in the foxhole with you, unlike the pansy, cut-and-run Dems.
Shoe toss proves Iraq now enjoys democratic freedoms. Saddam Hussein never allowed shoe tossing, ever.
I had to laugh.
He moved like a guy that had shoes thrown at him before:’)