'Human shield' gives her account of war on Iraq

The Naples Daily News (FL) ^ | January 18, 2004 | By ELIZABETH WENDT

[dirtboy]

If people can hear that message and understand the suffering and, really, the futility of killing everyone

Uh, nimrod, we didn't kill everyone in Iraq - at most 3,000 non-combatants were killed, a low level previously inconceivable in modern warfare. And, considering you peaceniks were claiming that sanctions were killing 100,000 Iraqi kids each year, by my calculations we're about 90,000 lives ahead of where we would be had we not taken out Saddam.

[OldFriend]

Denying the torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens is to be ignored so she can attack the United States.

Pity she came back it would appear she has more respect for despots. Perhaphs she can move o Zimbabwe, Iran, or even North Korea and spout her anti american crap!

[mewzilla]

War is a brutal reality.

Tell it to the hundreds of thousands that Saddamn slaughtered, sweetie.

[RAY]

The enemy counts on the U.S. resolve not being strong enough, and these people are helping the enemy - regardless of their misguided intentions. The leaders of Iraq brought the war to their people.

People such as this "shield" will contribute to more miscalculations by the enemy.

The U.S. resolve may be as fickle as whomever we elect the to be next president.

We need President Bush to finish the job.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

After the initial March bombing of Baghdad, Fippinger began volunteering as a nurse in a hospital. The Sarasota woman grew emotional as she recalled what she witnessed in those wards.

Gee lady, where were you when the Iraqis really needed a human shield to protect them from Saddam Hussein?

[mewzilla]

She's John Kerry in a skirt.

[Tennessee_Bob]

"If people can hear that message and understand the suffering and, really, the futility of killing everyone, maybe people that haven't stopped to question the Bush administration will," said Burkhalter, 57.

I heard the message and understood the suffering on September 11.

My question to President Bush - who's next, and when do we go?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Actually, I can see her point a little. If you were at the hospital in Baghdad, it looked pretty bad. War is hell.

The problem with liberals like Fippy is that they can't balance two evils and pick the lesser. They pick one problem--usually for politically or psychologically suspect reasons--and don't bother to look at the whole situation.

If you were a pregnant woman in Iraq with your leg blown off, the war looked bad; if you were one of millions of Iraqis who had family members threatened or killed by Saddam, especially if you were a Kurd, it looked pretty good. If you were an American who remembered 9/11 and believed Saddam was one of its indirect supporters, it looked worthwhile as well.

[ASA Vet]

We need President Bush to finish the job

Followed by President Rice for 8 years,
followed by President Jeb Bush for 8 years.

[texasflower]

This is Faith:

[facedown]

"I would say I was from America," Fippinger, 63, said,...

But not of America.

[Godebert]

<> "Followed by President Rice for 8 years, followed by President Jeb Bush for 8 years."

Condaleeza Rice is anti-gun, Pro-abortion and Pro-Affirmitive Action. She's a moderate liberal at best.

[auggy]

The war is almost a year old and this story about the war being a, "lie", is just now surfacing.
Give me a break. The "lie" is from the left.

[Godebert]

Correction...."Pro-Affirmitive Action" should read "Pro-Racial Quotas".

[marktwain]

Condaleeza Rice is anti-gun

Ms Rice has called herself a "Second Amendment absolutist" as she recounted how her father and neighbors used guns to patrol and protect their community when the police would not.

[LRS]

Dear Ms Faith Fippinger:

Please do us a favor, and return to your human shield duties in Iraq. Hundreds of people are dying there each week, and your presence is needed. Since those who are doing the killing at the moment, are not the EVIL U.S. military, they obviously should be much, much easier for you to handle. So stop wasting everyone's time, and get your butt back over there! Just think of the publicity you could amass, when the media reports: "Former human shield Faith Fippinger saved an Iraqi from being blown apart by an RPG today. Now, she can protect even more sites, if enough of her can be located..."

[martin_fierro]

[albee]

"...This is Faith:..."

If that is Faith, I'd hate to see Hope and Charity.

[samtheman]

After the bombs stopped falling, Faith Fippinger ventured out into Baghdad.

No human shields were killed in the conflict, Fippinger said. But many Iraqi civilians were not so fortunate, she explained.

Funny definition of "human shield". Someone who goes in "after the bombs stopped falling". In that sense, I guess I acted as a human shield at the WTC site, which I've visited many times "after the planes stopped crashing".

These people are such idiots they don't even pretend to follow the meanings of their own words. They just strut and prance and strike pretentious poses that gets them oo's and ah's from the idiot leftwing press.