Bush Shoe Sculpture 'taken down'

[NashVegas]

A sculpture of a shoe erected in Iraq to honour a journalist who threw his footwear at George W Bush has been dismantled, reports say.

Foreign media say the bronze-coloured fibre-glass shoe was removed from its site in the city of Tikrit on the orders of the local authorities.

It had been erected in the grounds of an orphanage.

The monument was reportedly taken down just a day after being unveiled in the late Saddam Hussein's home town.

The head of the Childhood organisation, which owns the orphanage, said she had been told to remove the monument immediately by the Salaheddin Provincial Joint Coordination Centre.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7862180.stm

Iraqis no longer own their history, in case you didn't notice.

[rateyes]

1. So much for "democracy in Iraq." nt

[Azooz]

2. Shoe Thrower for President (of Iraq).

The Iraqi death squads do not like that shoe, especially with their current "elections" - that shoe alone would get more honest votes in Iraq's "elections" than any candidate that they could put forward :)

[merh]

3. Shhhhh, we brought them democracy, don't you remember

they had purple fingers and everything.