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Iraqi’s build giant shoe to honor Bush shoe thrower


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Holidaying in Iraq? be sure to visit the giant shoe.

Residents in Saddam Hussein’s home town of Tikrit attended the unveiling of a shoe sculpture, remembering the Bush shoe throwing incident Thursday. The single copper-coated shoe on a stand carved to resemble flowing cloth by Baghdad-based artist, Laith al-Amari, is said to honor the shoe throwing and “is a source of pride for all Iraqis.”

The irony of course is that the show thrower, 29 year old Muntadhir Al-Zaidi is currently seeking asylum in Switzerland because he fears for his safety.

The sculpture includes an ode to al-Zeidi and mentions the virtues of being “able to tell the truth out loud.”











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27 Archived Responses to “ Iraqi’s build giant shoe to honor Bush shoe thrower ”

  1. Yeah, this shows what's wrong with the Middle East right here.

    Granted, we didn't do super awesome in Iraq, but the whole idea of a journalist expressing himself, especially in such a manner, would have never been an OPTION before we came in and did our thing.

    And now, they're once again expressing themselves… by giving us the middle finger, when we gave them the option to.

    Why don't you just piss in your Wheaties, bite the hand that feeds you, and call it a night?

    Oh, and you're welcome for the Freedom of Speech, assholes. It was paid for with our blood and money.

    –Kyle

  2. Strangely, not all the families of the 100,000 civilians killed in Iraq share your perspective.

    I guess there's just no pleasing some people.

  3. You can have all the “opinions” you want on this matter, but the fact is that this would never have been allowed prior to us.

    End of story.

    –Kyle

  4. American Red White and TRUE
    Jan 30, 2009

    Kyle Brady, you'll be happy to hear that the shoe “monument” was taken down by the Iraqi government! Score one for the good guys!

    .

  5. American Red White and TRUE
    Jan 30, 2009

    Kyle Brady, you'll be happy to hear that the shoe “monument” was taken down by the Iraqi government! Score one for the good guys!

    .

  6. you americans are all weird – what a waste of energy arguing about what happened in Iraq. Everyone knows Dubya had no other interest in going there than oil and to wrongly try to convince the world that America can save the world. He's wrong of course – America will one day cause the biggest self destruction this planet has ever seen.

    Idiots

  7. if the Iraqis use their democracy similarly to Americans, then they will re-construct shoe sculpture after U.S. forces leave — twice as big

  8. Johnny Walker
    Feb 1, 2009

    Too bad it didn't hit him in the face

  9. Anonymoose
    Feb 1, 2009

    'Shopped.

  10. Hahaha. I love how he says opinions with quotes around it… I almost feel bad, because he looks like such a fool now.

    End of story.

    -aaa

  11. bryle kady
    Feb 1, 2009

    kyle, you're an idiot

    end of story.

  12. What wonderful insight.

    –Kyle

  13. You too there, Baboosh.

    –Kyle

  14. If you don't know how to use an apostrophe you have no business writing a blog.

  15. That's how I felt.

  16. This looks almost too unbeliveable to be true!!
    IS IT CHRISTMAS ALREADY??

  17. Daemen
    Feb 1, 2009

    An apostrophe does not mean “Holy shit! Here comes an S!”. Think about it. If “Iraqi's” has an 's, why doesn't “residents”. They can both be used in place of one another.

  18. Yea except 100000 civilians didnt die…unless you consider al quida soldiers civilians…get your facts straight

  19. collin
    Feb 3, 2009

    first off, i hate to see ignorant foreigners bash America on any grounds. my patriotism tells me to dismiss their skewed views as simple uneducated bliss due to a lack of proper resources to teach themselves. that goes for Iraqi's (in their erecting of a monument that fails to take into account what was given while they simply focus on what was taken or changed) or comments on this here page.
    also, its ironic how most of them barely manage to stay above the poverty line YET somehow find the money for this.

  20. and it's because of arrogant comments like that foreigners hate us. Open up your mind and don't take everything FOX news gives you

  21. That is AMAZING!
    Bush deserved to have a shoe thrown at him, from anyone.

  22. unbelievable

  23. djTumor
    Feb 11, 2009

    I agree with you Mike and we seem to be causing quite the meltdown right now. We seem to have fucked up the world economy single-handedly haven't we?

  24. hey, buch did a lot of bad so learn what you are saying before you continue to talk out of your ass

  25. Maybe you should learn to spell on the Internet before you go saying “fightin words”

    –Kyle

  26. A. Nonymous
    Feb 28, 2009

    Gee, how very xenophobic of you. What's next, a nigger joke? Or maybe something about how all France knows how to do is surrender, those always go down well.


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