When American troops invaded Iraq back in 2003, the Bush Administration expected them to be greeted as liberators with "sweets and flowers". And no doubt they expected the grateful Iraqi people to build monuments to their foreign liberators.
Well, now some of them have. But I don't think its quite what they had in mind:
Yes, really - a giant bronze shoe has been erected in Tikrit. OK, so technically it honours Muntazer al-Zaidi, the infamous Iraqi shoe-thrower - but every time someone looks at it, they're going to remember who those shoes were throw at and why (and likely wish they could throw a few of their own).