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It appears that, unlike the shoe-throwing incident in Iraq where President Bush successfully ducked a couple of loafers, neither of these acts was intended as a protest.
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In Gaza hundreds of posters of Mr Abbas with a black X across his face appeared in public places, and relatives of the victims of the winter's military operation were throwing shoes at his picture, a reference to the shoe hurled in contempt at the then American president, George Bush, in Iraq.
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As our global community transitions from the ill-fated presidency of George W. Bush to the much-anticipated presidency of Barack Obama, we can take comfort knowing the gigantic imprint of history's "shoe" will leave a much more humiliating mark on the Bush legacy than a pair of misguided size 10 Iraqi shoes thrown in his general direction.
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This week The Washington Post declared the ultimate legitimization for the shoe, a pair of which was spotted on the vacationing President George W. Bush.
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