He had never backed off from his position of defending the invasion of Iraq until two weeks ago in an interview with American ABC television. US President George W. Bush now regrets the Iraq war in which more than one million people killed, nearly 3 million displaced and it caused a great deal of instability in the region, which will take decades to restore. What he admitted after five years of the invasion is what the whole world has been arguing for the last five years.

The reasons for the invasion were that the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and links with al Qaida. Despite the suggestions of Hans Blix, the former UN weapons inspector, that Iraq had no capability of producing the WMD and suggestions from other experts from the Middle East that the alleged contact between Saddam Hussein and al Qaida was anything, but against the rules of nature, he pushed forward and invaded Iraq with the ‘help of God’ and at his cronies insistence, such as Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and others.

When he declared that ‘mission accomplished’ on 1 May 2003, the alleged nuclear weapons were still missing and there was no sign of al Qaida presence in Iraq. In fact, it was Bush who gave way to al Qaida to flock into Iraq. Thanks to Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 we saw that Bush had much more contacts with al Qaida leadership than any of the high-ranking Iraqi officals. al Qaida leadership must have been thankful to Bush for the invasion.

It has been five years now since the invasion and we still don’t know where the Saddam Hussein’s alleged nuclear weapons are. It is certain that there has never been such weapons in Iraq, but what happened last week was left an indelible mark on the Iraqi history as well as the world’s. Iraqi journalist Muntazar al Zaidi’s throwing shoes at Bush made a greater effect than the likelihood of finding the WMD in Iraq. Zaidi’s act won’t bring millions of Iraqi deaths back to life, nevertheless, as Sami Ramazani wrote in the Guardian, it made Zaidi “a powerful unifying symbol of defiance.” As the Iraqis felt a sense of dignity for the first time with Zaidi's act of defiance since the invasion, Bush finally found the WMD he had been looking for. Zaidi’s shoes are the most destructive weapons ever made, otherwise how Bush would have been destructed before leaving the White House. With Zaidi’s shoes he found the WMD and proved how destructive they are.