The Big Persimmon » Bush http://www.little-wings.com/wordpress From DC to Tokyo and Back Again Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:35:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Bush Gets The Shoe http://www.little-wings.com/wordpress/2008/12/15/bush-gets-the-shoe/ http://www.little-wings.com/wordpress/2008/12/15/bush-gets-the-shoe/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:53:18 +0000 Michelle http://www.little-wings.com/wordpress/?p=182

I’m not sure what he is smiling about in the background as they’re taking the journalist away… In many parts of the Middle East, shoe-throwing is one of the harshest gestures one can make. Note that shoe-throwing also made news in 2003 when Iraqis threw their footwear at the toppled statue of Saddam Hussein.

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