Bush: a potential friend to Iraqi Shi'ites?

So, it turns out the shoe-hurling journalist is a Shiite. So, why chuck the leathers at Bush, then? Granted the US occupation hasn’t been a short-lived nor as effective as it should have been, but it’s far more preferable to Saddam’s Iraq. After all, Bush did liberate this journalist’s ethnic group and has remained committed to Iraqi security to help the country continue its transition from a closed autocracy to a democratic republic (despite the political hit for doing so).

Obama, on the other hand, has always opposed ousting Saddam—who brutally persecuted this journalist's fellow Iraqi Shiites—and remains committed to withdrawing Americans troops from Iraq ASAP to the potential detriment to Iraqi stability and independence from Iranian influence.

Perhaps this journalist should reconsider who he hurls his shoes at.