ANALYSIS-Iraqi shoe-thrower captures Mideast rage at Bush Reuters: "BEIRUT, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The hurling of shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush on his farewell visit to Iraq strikes many in the Middle East as a fittingly furious comment on what they see as his calamitous legacy in the region."

Whoah - this story is totally interesting. I want to know what his calamitous legacy is all about.

"It indicates how much antagonism he's been able to create in the whole region," former Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher told Reuters, adding that the incident was regrettable.

Bush had harmed America's reputation and the friendship many had felt for it. "Despite past mistakes in its policies, there was always a redeeming factor. In this particular case, there doesn't seem to have ever been a redeeming factor," Maher said.

What are these past mistakes?!! C'mon, tell me now, his quote's gotta get more juicier than that...

Arabs have long fumed at American support for Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians, but Bush's war in Iraq created a new source of anger and instability in the Middle East.

I think that's it - his calamitous legacy is a war in Iraq. That's sort of a big let-down. It's sorta like taking an incident and building your whole case around it. Somehow the writer managed to include Egypt, Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia all in one article of an Iraqi shoe thrower.