Thursday, January 29, 2009

A statue unveiled

Over in Tikrit the local orphanage, set up to raise children orphaned by Bush War II, helped a sculptor build a statue to an Iraqi hero.
A huge sculpture of the footwear hurled at President Bush last year during a trip to Iraq has been unveiled at the Tikrit Orphanage complex during a ceremony.

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

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 and demonstrators last month took to the streets in the Arab world and called for his release.



The tree is a nice touch.


Made of fiberglass and coated with copper, the monument consists of the shoe sitting on a concrete base. The entire monument is 3.5 meters high. The shoe is 2.5 meters long and 1.5 meters wide.

// posted by montag @ 7:18 PM
Comments:
Bush is lucky his grand liberation left the country a little worse off than they started, imagine if the media could afford steel toe's.

Im not saying what the reporter did was right, but it's not like he took the actions of a minority (say our government) and used it as a grounds to invade our country, hang our leader, and try to regulate our way of life to better suit their's.

I mean that would just be crazy, right? We were totally justified since their leader wasn't elected by popular vote... plus he was really unreasonable and violent... and umm... he constantly defied the UN...

...sound familiar?
# posted by Blogger Skitt_rbrain : 10:27 PM
 

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