Shoe monument for man who threw footwear at BushA statue built for Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who hurled his shoes at former U.S. president … TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) – An Iraqi town has unveiled a giant monument of a shoe in honor of the journalist who threw his footwear at former U.S. President George W. Bush.
The two-meter (six-foot) high statue, unveiled on Thursday in former dictator Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit, depicts a bronze-colored shoe, filled with a plastic shrub. "Muntazer: fasting until the sword breaks its fast with blood; silent until our mouths speak the truth," reads an inscription, in honor of journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who hurled his shoes at Bush and called him a "dog" at a news conference during the former president's final visit to Iraq.
Zaidi has been held in jail in Baghdad since the incident, facing charges of assaulting a visiting head of state.
Fatin Abdul Qader, head of an orphanage and children's organization in the town, said the one-and-a-half-tonne monument by artist Laith al-Amiri was titled "statue of glory and generosity."
"This statue is the least expression of our appreciation for Muntazer al-Zaidi, because Iraqi hearts were comforted by his throw," she said.
2 comments:
It went up. Then it went down.
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I thought it was a great tribute to the butt-hole that is GWB
Dude, I think you misunderestimate the definition of intellectual. Anyone who knows enough to be considered smart, knows that reaction is the most base form of thought... and no one smart enough to understand me would ever consider voting on the so-called right.
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