ITS THE FRENCH AGAIN. Draw your own conclusions.

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The first-ever pyramid of Shoes Against Landmines came to Iraq’s capital city Friday, displayed in a run-down park in the middle of a Baghdad traffic circle.

The pyramid served to draw attention to the cause of Handicap International, a French, nonprofit organization aimed at stopping the use of land mines.

But for the half-dozen homeless Iraqi children who seek safety daily by hanging around U.S. soldiers providing security at the nearby Palestine Hotel, they saw the pyramid not as a political statement, but as an opportunity to clad their bare feet with new shoes.

They went away barefooted.

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