Pardon Me?

The thug who decided to throw his shoes at President Bush during a press conference in Baghdad is now asking the Iraqi President for a pardon. I refuse to call this man a journalist because of his actions.

In a letter delivered to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the journalist described his behavior as "an ugly act" and asked to be pardoned, spokesman Yassin Majid told The Associated Press.

Majid confirmed to Fox News that Muntadhar al-Zeidi has asked the Iraqi president for a pardon, and expressed "regret and sorrow" for his behavior.

"It is too late to now to regret the big and ugly act that I perpetrated," al-Zeidi wrote, according to Majid.

Majid told the AP that al-Zeidi went on in the letter to recall an interview he conducted with the prime minister in 2005 when al-Maliki invited him into his home, saying: "Come in, it is your home too."

"So I ask for your pardon," al-Zeidi wrote, Majid said.

Majid told Fox al-Maliki, who tried to shelter Bush from the incoming shoes with his arm, is inclined to let Iraqi law run its course.

al Malaki is right to let the justice system run its course - and al Zeidi should feel the weight of the law come down on him. He actively engaged in a premeditated assault on the President of the United States. That's not some heroic act, although anti-American leftists and Bush haters will certainly do their part to make him out to be a hero and/or now play the role of victim.

It was completely unprofessional, and I really doubt he would have ever attempted to do such a thing if Saddam Hussein were in power.

Saddam routinely murdered people for much less, and Saddam never tolerated any dissent. This man's ability to express himself was granted by the US and its overthrow of Saddam's regime. The irony of that fact is lost on all too many people.

In fact, when someone displeased Saddam, he would often not only kill that person's family, but he'd kill all their relatives, his thugs would rape the women in front of the men, and then feed the hapless victims into plastic shredders feet first. Saddam's regime was barbaric by all standards, and engaged in multiple confirmed acts of genocide, including the use of chemical weapons. He was a menace and the world is a better place without him in power.

Al-Zeidi simply couldn't see that through the haze of his Che Guevara and Sadr coated worldview. His heroes are thugs of the Left.



Meanwhile, President Bush handled the situation with aplomb and managed to maintain his composure despite the clear breach of his personal security. This isn't the first time his Secret Service detail hasn't had shining moments either. A 2005 incident in Tbilisi, Georgia involved someone who managed to toss a live hand grenade into the crowd near President Bush.

The device did not go off and no one was hurt. However, the grenade was live and the FBI said today it could have caused considerable harm to Bush and the tens of thousands of people who had gathered May 10 to hear him speak in Freedom Square, a main plaza in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital.

"We consider this act to be a threat against the health and welfare of both the president of the United States and the president of Georgia as well as the multitude of Georgian people that had turned out at this event," said Bryan Paarmann, FBI attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi.

The Soviet-era RGD-5 grenade, which was wrapped in a red handkerchief, fell just 61 feet from where the president was speaking, sources told ABC News.

The grenade's pin had been pulled, but it malfunctioned and did not go off. It was snatched up and removed by a Georgian security officer. Georgian authorities did not tell the Secret Service about the incident until after the president had left the country.