{"id":2550,"date":"2005-12-05T18:08:09","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-12-05T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T01:08:09","slug":"shoeting-at-allawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/05\/shoeting-at-allawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoe(t)ing at Allawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An astute AntiWar.com reader explains why Allawi would rather claim to have been the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/index.php?id=P2542\">victim of gun-wielding assassins than an angry mob throwing tomatoes and shoes:<\/A><BLOCKQUOTE>In Arab culture its more acceptable to a man to be hit by a bullet rather than a shoe -or even worse!-by a sandal.<\/p>\n<p>thats why they tried to cover up that most humilating incident by claiming that it was an assasination attempt !<\/BLOCKQUOTE>And from the Department of I-wish-I-had-thought-of-that, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/norwegianity.com\/blog\/index.php?id=2783\">The Wege at Norwegianity points<\/A> at <A HREF=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/2005\/12\/najaf_mob_tries.html\">this post<\/A> with this comment:<BLOCKQUOTE>They were shoe(t)ing at Allawi the other day. Amazing how that Iraqi press turned shoes and tomatoes into guns and knives.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>So, I stole it for the title of this post.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.needlenose.com\/node\/view\/2380\">Swopa speculates <\/A>on Allawi&#8217;s electoral chances vs. Team Shiite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An astute AntiWar.com reader explains why Allawi would rather claim to have been the victim of gun-wielding assassins than an angry mob throwing tomatoes and shoes:In Arab culture its more acceptable to a man to be hit by a bullet rather than a shoe -or even worse!-by a sandal. thats why they tried to cover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}