Iraq's shoe monument to Dubya taken down.

Shoe monument in northern Iraq taken down
Middle East News

Baghdad - A sculpture of an enormous shoe erected in honour of the Iraqi reporter who hurled his shoes at then-US president George W Bush in December, was taken down on Friday.

The huge bronze-coloured sculpture, made of fiberglass, was erected at an orphanage complex in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit on Thursday.

The head of the Childhood organisation, which the orphanage belongs to, said that the Provincial Joint Coordination Centre told her to take the structure down immediately.

'I did take the shoe down immediately and destroyed it; and I did not ask why,' Shahah Daham, the head of the charity organization, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Assisted by children at the orphanage, Iraqi sculptor Laith al- Amiri erected a replica of one of the shoes Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi threw at Bush during the press conference he held with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad last month.

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1456781.php/Shoe_monument_in_northern_Iraq_taken_down_

What has gone before will be again! If this sculptor doesn't do one, someone else will. It ain't gone, it's just away for a while.

http://thinkprogress.org.nyud.net:8090/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/shoemonweb.jpg

Momentarily gone invisible, the wonderful shoe statue.

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No freedom of expression there

Nothing they do will change the beautiful fact that Bush was shoed literally and figuratively.

than the shoe itself.