THE SHOE HEARD ROUND THE WORLD
Posted: December 15th, 2008, 5:28 pm
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Shoe-Hurling Iraqi Becomes a Folk Hero
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS and
The Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at President Bush has stirred up a storm of emotions across Iraq and the Arab world.
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President Bush and called him a dog became a huge celebrity in the Arab world and beyond on Monday, with many supporters exalting him for what they called a courageous act in the face of American arrogance about the war.
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Yes yesBy Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, December 15, 2008; 11:53 AM
Reality made a dramatic cameo appearance when President Bush's legacy tour touched down in Baghdad yesterday and a shoe-hurling Iraqi journalist refused to go along with the charade that the invasion of his country was something to celebrate.
Bush, as part of his series of carefully choreographed farewell statements, has been making every effort to suggest that victory is around the corner in the two unfinished wars he leaves behind him (one undertaken under false pretenses, both vastly more protracted and costly than expected). The implicit message is that if anything goes wrong from this point forward, it will be Barack Obama's fault.
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