After yesterday’s events, the US Iraqi Command has moved swiftly to ban shoes as a security threat. US forces have completed house-to-house sweeps of seven metropolitan areas in Iraq, confiscating all footwear with enough heft to be thrown. Those resisting turning over their shoes, and their families, are being preventively detained. A US spokesperson denied that the move is Draconian, promising that the Command will be issuing foam rubber slippers and flip flops to all who queue up at local police stations to apply.
Related:
- Bush & The Two Shoes
- Man Throws Shoes at President Bush in Iraq
- George W. Bush: Pay No Attention to that Ingrate Shoe Thrower, the Iraqi People Love Me
- Epitaph of the Bush Years?
Pretty funny, Eliot! You could submit it to NewsBiscuit. (and IMO it’s good enough for The Onion)
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