A top view of the statue...
Posted on 05/24/2007 11:18:27 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Kosovo Builds Statue To 'Saviour' Clinton
Last Updated: 2:35am BST 24/05/2007
Kosovo Albanians plan to honour their “saviour” Bill Clinton by erecting a statue of the former United States president in the capital of Serbia’s breakaway province.
Izeir Mustafa was thrilled to be asked to sculpt a statue of Bill Clinton
The 10ft tall monument is still under construction in a studio in Podujevo, 40km north of Pristina. “He is our saviour. He saved us from extermination,” Izeir Mustafa, the sculptor, said. “I was thrilled by the work because I know what he did for us.”
Kosovo has been under UN administration since 1999 after 78 days of Nato bombing ousted Serb troops who had killed some 10,000 ethnic Albanians in an 18-month counter-insurgency war against Albanian separatist guerrillas. Mr Clinton, as leader of the Nato alliance at the time, is seen as the man who decided to bomb Serbia to force the late Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his forces from Kosovo, effectively handing victory to the Kosovo Liberation Army.
Pristina already has a road named after the former president, graced by a 25ft tall mural. Pristina municipal authorities say that they expect to erect the statue somewhere along Clinton Boulevard later this summer.
Mustafa has several more days to work before he dips the Clinton sculpture in bronze, after which he will turn his attention to another soon-to-be former Western leader. “I definitely will do a statue of Tony Blair,” he said. “He saved us as well
A top view of the statue...
Should sculpture him with a skull-cap.
Oh to be a pigeon.....
Hmmmm....
Does this trashy art also come with a statue of Monica kneeling before this sculpted “savior?”
Does the statue have it’s pants on?
When the bad guys build a statue in your honor, thats when you know just how truely evil you are. Clinton has a place in hell.
Honestly, the best thing you can say about the statue is that it vaguely resembles a human. Who, I haven’t a clue, but I wouldn’t have guessed Clinton in a million years.
Thank God it wasn’t Hillary! Must have ran out of clay.....
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