Shoe-Hurling Iraqi Becomes a Folk Hero

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Originally Posted by Mattyk72

This must be a first, a President getting a shoe tossed at his dome? This could only happen to W.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/wo...16shoe.html?em

Throwing shoes. What an advanced culture these Arabs have. The incident put me in mind of Kipling:

"...Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
'Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?'..."


etc. etc.