A politician with a sole
Local Green Party co-chair John Barry has come to the defence of Muntadar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who flung his shoes at President Bush during a recent Baghdad news conference. Dr Barry reckons the outgoing US President should ask the Iraqi authorities to grant his assailant a pardon "in recognition of the fact that Mr. al-Zaidi merely engaged in a traditional method of communicating a political message" and it would be absurd and vindictive if the journalist's gesture was to land him in prison.
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