Iraqi Shoe Sculpture Tossed

The Whistler  •  February 1, 2009

The government ordered it gone.

A huge shoe sculpture honouring the Iraqi reporter who gained global fame by throwing his footwear at former US president George W. Bush has now been dismantled, an official told AFP.
“We have removed the shoe statue of Muntazer al-Zaidi, because we received an order to do so from the governor Salaheddin province,” said Shaha al-Juburi, head of the children’s foundation where the bronze sculpture had been erected.
The shoe – in which a bush was planted – stood three metres high and sat atop a white pedestal in Tikrit, the hometown of executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Gosh! If you can’t diss George Bush in Uncle Saddam’s hometown, where can you do it? The post will serve to let the Left hyperventilate at will… Apparently the entire country didn’t feel this way!
Hat tip Jawa
Cross Posted at Proof Positive

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  • http://www.valleydeals.com/cgi-bin/board2/YaBB.pl Kevin

    Peolosi and Reid will try to buy it.<img src='http://i35.tinypic.com/2rwu8hs.jpg'&gt;

  • http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

    With someone else's money.

  • Hannitized

    So Rob was wrong when he said the Iraqi's now free to make sculptures like this without the government taking them away?

  • Frank

    Doesn't it ever occur to the American people and to the European world at large that no matter what you do for the Muslim world they are never grateful. So many young Americans lost their lives ridding that country of a dictator and his cronies. Ask this shoe thrower who people and the media have made into a hero, if he would have had the courage to throw a shoe at Saddam Hussein…he knows the answer…it would have been the end of not just him…his family…his tribe and maybe even his entire village. Where was the likes Muqtada Al Sadr who and the others who now stand up and scream against so called American occupation when the people of Iraq were being oppressed for so many years…?? hiding like rats in Iran. Wake up Iraqi's wake up.

  • Hannitized

    There was a time when the dissent of the sort the shoe-thrower displayed, crass and inappropriate as it was, would have earned him a death sentence. And probably some ill-treatment for his friends and family. But in today's Iraq the dissent is tolerated, as are monuments celebrating it.

    America did that, and with no help from Obama or the Democrats.

    Frankly, I'm proud of the statue.

    Turns out that dissent isn't tolerated in today's Iraq. And they are not dissenting against the Iraqi government, but rather the results of Bush's decision.

    I think Rob made a bit of a stretch to claim this as political dissent against the Iraqi government or its leader.

  • 2Hotel9

    Oh, and whilst we are on the subject, why are not these young unfortunates being taught more useful skills than working in papeirmache'.

  • http://Array Hannitized

    They are being taught to engage and express themselves politically. I think that is a good thing.

  • 2Hotel9

    Ah, so they are all going to be anchors on CNN!

    Know what would be a much better use of their time? Learning basic civics. Mathematics. There is another good time burner.

    Perhaps you should invest yourself of some knowledge about that "youth foundation" which spent a considerable amount of money having a bronze cast of a shoe made, and then attempted to pawn it off as a project done by school children. That would be a good place for you to start.

    Or is it that you know all about the who&what; of this "children's protest" and you are just trying desperately to cover for it now?

  • http://www.lordoftheweb.info/ manojlds

    Like Frank said, the fact that the shoe-thrower has been hailed shows the improved state of affairs in Iraq and one cannot begin to imagine what would have happened to him if he did that with Saddam Hussein. And I gotta say that Bush handled himself very well when the incident occured.

  • 2Hotel9

    I especially like how he handled it, pointing with his left hand and laughing at the man. That is actually insulting in Islam.

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