Bush's New Shoe Statue

Subject: Bush's New Shoe Statue

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01292009/news/worldnews/bush_shoe_throwing_incident_inspires_wor_152589.htm

Anyone read about this yet?

LOL that's awesome!

ha!
When I was in DC for the Inauguration, there was a blowup doll of W, and a bunch of shoes to throw at him like a carnival game.
It was cathartic....

OMG that is AWESOME. I cannot believe I didn't see it when I was down there.

scarlett wrote: OMG that is AWESOME. I cannot believe I didn't see it when I was down there.

Dupont Circle, Monday 1/19/1009

Ha.

Iraq sculpture honoring Bush shoe-thrower removed

BAGHDAD – The director of an Iraqi orphanage says a sculpture honoring an Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush has been removed.

Fatin al-Nassiri says Iraqi police told her the statue had to be removed from the orphanage in Tikrit because government property should not be used for something with a political bias.

She says the sofa-sized statue of a shoe was taken down on Saturday after being unveiled on Thursday.

Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi threw his shoes during a Dec. 14 news conference in Baghdad. Throwing shoes at someone is a sign of extreme contempt in Arab culture.

This is what was going on in Iraq before the US liberated the country - mass graves, hands tied behind backs, bullets through the head. Makes a shoe seem pretty trite.