Monument to Bush shoe-throwing shines at Iraqi orphanage

[NeoConsSuck]

Source: CNN.COM

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- For the war-beaten orphans of the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, this big old shoe fits.

A huge sculpture of the footwear hurled at President Bush in December during a trip to Iraq has been unveiled in a ceremony at the Tikrit Orphanage complex.

Assisted by children at the home, sculptor Laith al-Amiri erected a brown replica of one of the shoes hurled at Bush and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki by journalist Muntadhir al-Zaidi during a press conference in Baghdad.

Al-Zaidi was jailed for his actions, and a trial is pending. But his angry gesture touched a defiant nerve throughout the Arab and Muslim world. He is regarded by many people as a hero. Demonstrators in December took to the streets in the Arab world and called for his release.

"Those orphans who helped the sculptor in building this monument were the victims of Bush's war," al-Naseri said. "The shoe monument is a gift to the next generation to remember the heroic action by the journalist."



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/29/iraq.shoe.mon...

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As they say, if the shoe fits.....

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. What a great picture!

[jwirr]

5. Orphans made by *ss's war?

[crikkett]

7. that would be *ss' war...

not to nitpick.

[DutchLiberal]

2. K&R! Great story!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. LOL! I love it! nt

[iconicgnom]

4. self delete

[Matilda]

6. And the unintended consequences

are that shoe-throwing has become a symbol of anger and contempt world-wide. We all know what
it means, thanks to al-Zaidi.

One might have hoped that as a parting gesture, Bush might have requested clemency for al-Zaidi,
but ... well, it is George Bush.

[AnneD]

10. He seldom gave clemency when he was Govenor...

why would he now.

We had a death row inmate Carla Fay Tucker. She committed a heinous murder of her boyfriend and new lover. At the time she was a drug addict. While in prison she gave up drugs, found God, became a model prisoner, and worked to help other women prisoners. Religious group argued not for a pardon, but to commute the sentence to life. Bush is on tape actually mocking her in a rude and crude way. It was an in site into his cruel nature and should have been an eye opener to the religious right in this state.

[FreakinDJ]

8. Now add that to the Bush Library

a momentous piece of work

[hamsterjill]

9. Great pix!

Now that's a picture with a lot of "sole"!!!!

Come on, you knew someone would have to say it, didn't you???