A Saudi newspaper reported an offer of $10 million for one of the shoes.
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi's daughter reportedly awarded the shoe thrower, Muntader al-Zaidi, a 29-year-old journalist, a medal of courage.
In the Baghdad people calling for an immediate American withdrawal placed their shoes and sandals atop long poles, waving them in the air.
In a southern Iraqi city people threw their shoes at a passing American convoy.
They are planning to throw away the key on this guy...and I think everybody on the net should weigh in on the subject.
The man should be honored in Iraq...instead he is pilloried by the neo-con stooges installed to run Iraq.
Since he runs Iraq, Bush should pardon the man...especially if it would be seen as a magnanimous gesture...he certainly could use a credibility boost.
Closer to home, in Toronto and Montreal the craze is catching on.
" MONTREAL - Anti - war protesters held a symbolic shoe toss in front of the U.S. consulate in Montreal on Saturday in support of jailed Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi.
About 40 protesters braved the cold to throw shoes at an image of U.S. President George W. Bush.
About 40 people turned out to a similar protest in Toronto Saturday.
"Today is an act of humour in a sense but it's also a profound situation and context," said journalist and activist Stephan Christoff.
"We're talking about a situation where hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives in Iraq. It is George Bush who holds a direct responsibility for the devastating, horrific situation of occupation and imperialism in Iraq."
Demonstrators pelted the presidential photograph with boots, shoes and slippers and denounced the U.S. war in Iraq and the NATO-led war in Afghanistan before marching to a downtown Canadian Forces recruiting station. "
More here...
http://www.canadaeast.com/front/article/518000
Regards...
And while we're at it, perhaps sending the dying Palestinian youth, enough hard soled shoes to cover their feet and feed their slings, wouldn't be a bad idea.
God bless,
TS