Baghdad: Muntazer Al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist, became famous for throwing his shoes at President George W. Bush during a press conference to express his rage over the chaos and corruption that followed the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. He remains enraged.

"Despite failures and corruption, the same people who entered 20 years ago with the occupier are still in power. Speaking about his actions in 2008 at the Baghdad media briefing, he said, "The United States knows very well that it brought in pseudo politicians.

Bush dove to avoid the shoes that were spinning towards him from across the room as he was seated next to the former prime minister of Iraq, Nuri Al-Maliki. In the Arab culture, throwing shoes at someone is a serious insult.

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You dog, here is a parting kiss from the Iraqi people! Prior to being taken outside by security personnel, Zaidi yelled.

Bush had received criticism from all sides of the Middle East for his decision to remove Saddam Hussein, which was based on false US intelligence that the Iraqi leader had accumulated WMDs.

At the time, the US president dismissed the shoe-throwing incident by joking that it was similar to being heckled at a political rally. It's a technique for getting noticed.

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Al-Zaidi, who was sentenced to six months in prison for assaulting a head of state on a visit, fled to Lebanon after his release, but he later returned to run for an Iraqi parliamentary seat in 2018 in an effort to fight corruption. His campaign, however, was unsuccessful.

Every day, you witness people's suffering, which makes you bitter, he claimed.

He continued to advocate against corruption and said he had no regrets about tossing his shoes.

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"This scene serves as proof that one day a simple person was capable of saying no to that haughty person with all his tyranny, power, weapons, media, money, and authority, and to say that you (Bush) were wrong."