Bush discovers WMD in Baghdad — no consolation prize, though

By Mazaak Chuckley
16 December 2008

For five long years George W Bush and his armed battalions couldn't find the weapons of mass destruction they were looking for and over which the outgoing US president launched a war on a hapless Iraq.

Then, all of a sudden, he found a slightly different WMD in - of all places - a press conference!

It happened in Baghdad on Sunday, 14 December 2008, a day that will forever be remembered by cobblers around the world. Muntazer al-Zaidi, a reporter who represented Cairo-based Al Baghdadiya television at President Bush's conference, hurled one abuse and two shoes at the American president.

According to Al Jazeera, the abuse he hurled was, ''This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog.''

According to CNN, Bush told the conference, ''That was a size 10 shoe he threw at me, you may want to know.'' Actually there were two of them. One shoe narrowly missed the president's head and hit a wall behind him. The other flew past Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who tried to block it with his arm.

Weapon of mass disgust