Duck & Cover (or The Farewell Kiss)

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Molti di voi avranno sentito della visita a sorpresa di George W. Bush ieri a Baghdad:

"This is a farewell kiss, you dog", ovvero "Questo è il tuo bacio d'addio, cane", è l'insulto che il giornalista iracheno ha gridato oggi al presidente statunitense George W.Bush - poco dopo la stretta di mano in conferenza stampa congiunta con il premier Nour Al Maliki - mentre gli tirava dietro le sue scarpe, una dopo l'altra, con una certa violenza" (altre foto qui).

Sembrano immagini prese dall'ultimo libro di Alison Jackson, un finale di presidenza davvero notevole. Mi chiedo come sarebbe stata la scena se una delle scarpe avesse centrato il bersaglio.

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As most of you will know, "on a whirlwind trip shrouded in secrecy and marred by dissent, President George W. Bush on Sunday hailed progress in the wars that define his presidency and got a size-10 reminder of his unpopularity when a man hurled two shoes at him during a news conference in Iraq.

'This is your farewell kiss, you dog!' shouted the protester in Arabic, later identified as Muntadar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for Al-Baghdadia television, an Iraqi-owned station based in Cairo, Egypt. 'This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq'." (here)

These stills look like they were taken from Alison Jackson's last book. Quite an end of presidency, I wonder how the scene would have looked like if one of the shoes had hit the target.

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