Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at George W. Bush says his only regret is he 'only had two shoes'

. As the U.S. leader spoke alongside Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, he was forced to duck the flying shoes as the journalist shouted:"This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog!"

"The only regret I have is that I only had two shoes," Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who expressed the feelings of many Iraqis at the time, told CBS News on Monday, exactly 20 years after the beginning of the U.S.'s campaign of"shock and awe." "I was looking for the opposite and equal reaction to say that Iraqis don't receive occupiers with flowers," the journalist told CBS News, adding that he staged his protest to oppose"this arrogant killer, and out of loyalty to the Iraqi martyrs killed by American occupation soldiers."

He says he was beaten and tortured for three days following his arrest by Iraqi officers, who he claims sent photos of himself blindfolded to the Americans. He says three months of his jail term were spent in solitary confinement as he suffered medical problems."Back then, in the midst of being tortured for three days, there was a rumor that I had apologized. I told the investigator I did not apologize, and if time was rewound I would do it all over again," he told CBS News.

And he missed 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

GOP who cried wolf to Iraq

AndreaGil55555 He missed, twice.

😂😂😂 !!

Considering what we did to that country and the region, I'd hope he had truckload of shoes...

USA, the war country number one, be proud!!

Was he punished in some way for this incident?

He'd be dead under Saddam.

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