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BAGHDAD — President Bush on Sunday made a valedictory visit to Iraq, the country that will largely define his legacy, but the trip will more likely be remembered for the unscripted moment then every Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at Bush’s head and denounced him put on live television as a “dog” who had delivered death and bewail here from nearly six years of war.

The theatrical piece unfolded in a few words subsequently Bush appeared at a tidings conference in Baghdad with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to highlight the newly adopted security agreement betwixt the United States and Iraq. That agreement includes a commitment to withdraw all American forces by the end of 2011.

The Iraqi journalist, Muntader al-Zaidi, 28, a correspondent for Al Baghdadia, an independent Iraqi position, stood up in all parts of 12 feet from Bush and shouted in Arabic: “This is a gift from the Iraqis; this is the farewell kiss, you dog!” He therefore threw a shoe at Bush, who ducked and narrowly avoided it.

As stunned security agents and guards, officials and journalists watched, al-Zaidi then threw his other shoe, shouting in Arabic, “This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq!” That shoe also narrowly missed Bush as al-Maliki stuck a hand in meet face to face of the president’s face to help forefend him.

Chaos immediately ensued to the degree that a scrum of al-Maliki’s security agents jumped on the man, wrestled him to the floor and hustled him fully of the ornate room where the news conference was taking place. They kicked him and beat him until “he was crying like a woman,” reported Mohammed Taher, a reporter by reason of Afaq, a station owned by the Dawa Party, which is led by al-Maliki. Al-Zaidi was then detained on unspecified charges.

Other Iraqi journalists in the front file of the intelligence conference publicly apologized to Bush, who was uninjured and tried to brush right side the impinging by structure a joke. “All I can report is it is a size 10,” he said, continuing to take a few questions.

He called the falling a sign of democracy in the inhabitants, declaration, “That’s what mob do in a free society — draw attention to themselves,” as the man’s screaming could be heard outside.

But the moment clearly unnerved the aides of al-Maliki and some of the Americans in Bush’s entourage, partly because it was televised and may have revealed a security lapse in the so-called Green Zone, the most heavily secured component of Baghdad. Dana Perino, the White House press secretary, was visibly distraught, and NBC News reported she had been struck in the face by a microphone in the chaos.

The shoe-throwing happening also punctuated Bush’s visit — his fourth — in a deeply symbolic way, reflecting the conflicted views in Iraq of a man who had toppled Saddam Hussein, ordered the employment of the country and brought it the kind of freedoms unthinkable under Saddam’s rule but at enormous costs.

Hitting someone by a shoe is considered the highest insult in Iraq. It means that the target is even lower than the shoe, which is always on the ground and dirty. Crowds of people hurled their shoes at the huge man statue of Saddam that one time stood in Baghdad’session Firdos Square before helping U.S. Marines to pull it down April 9, 2003, the day the first in importance bring to the ground. More recently, a estranged bigger rabble comprised of Iraqis who had opposed the protection agreement did the same with an effigy of Bush in the same square, flinging their shoes at it before burning it.

Al-Zaidi’s motivations in carrying out a potentially career-ending simulate were unclear, but friends described him as a devoted journalist. “He was committed to his job and after training in Lebanon became chief of correspondents about a month ago,” said Haider Nassar, who worked with him at Baghdadia.

“He had discouraging feelings about the coalition forces,” aforesaid Nassar, referring to the U.S.-led foreign military forces in Iraq. Nassar also said al-Zaidi had asked to cover the advice conference, since he was the chief correspondent. Another loved said al-Zaidi often ended his reports by saying “Reporting from occupied Baghdad, this is Muntader al-Zaidi.”