By U.S. Federal Government - This image has been extracted from another file, Public Domain, Link "This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog!" shouted Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi as he hurled his first shoe at George W. Bush during a Baghdad press conference on December 14, 2008. He launched the second a moment later: "This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq!" Bush ducked both throws. Al-Zaidi was hauled off, sentenced to three years for assaulting a foreign head of state (later cut to one), and released after nine months. In Arab culture, shoes are unclean, which makes throwing one a grave insult. Posters of Bush with shoes attached went up across the Middle East, and Condoleezza Rice was nickn amed "kundara" — "shoe." In Tikrit, somebody built a ten-foot copper statue of al-Zaidi's loafer; police ordered it taken down soon after. Wikipedia's running list of shoe-throwing incidents tracks copycats across India, China, Iran, Turkey, Australia, and beyond.…