1.0 link 162645 <![CDATA[Bush Shoe Thrower Monument In Iraq Quickly Taken Down]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/30/bush-shoe-thrower-monumen_n_162645.html A shoe monument was put up yesterday in Tikrit, Iraq, to honor the journalist who threw his own shoes at former President Bush last month.

Reuters reported earlier today:

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...

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