'Human shields' being used - U.S., White House rebukes peace campaigners

CNN ^ | 1/26/03 | Staff

[APBaer]

"I hope they paint themselves Blaze Orange."

And keep their cell phones on "Transmit"

[Burlem]

lets nominate possible human shields, I will start with the Baghdad three, the senators that went to Iraq, moving to HOllywood we can have Babs, Sheen, Gore Vidal, and others, I have more but did not want to nominate all of them. :(

[Long Cut]

That's hilarious!

Although, considering that his loyalty is obviously NOT with his own country and with Iraq instead, you might be right.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Won't work. They are no better at being grease spot shield than they are at being human shileds.

[Pushi]

Isn't a condom a shield, too.

[Kewlhand`tek]

so does saddam tell them where to sheild......ie him or his secret labs? maybe we should aim for the large congergation. Im thinking a daisy cutter trumps a human shield, not much ballistic shielding there.

[xzins]

Why would anyone want to shield weapons of mass destruction sites from being attacked?

They are clearly on the side of Iraqi fascism. I wonder who these "shields" are in real life?

[goodnesswins]

These are NOT human shields....they are SPIES! (SSSHHHH)

[APBaer]

That distinction currently belongs to the 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult:

We are not eligible of the Darwin Award!
We met up with the mother ship.
In Baghdad these guys are going to meet a different kind of "mother".

[freepersup]

"The presence or movements of the civilian population or individual civilians shall not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations, in particular in attempts to shield military objectives from attacks or to shield, favour or impede military operations. The parties to the conflict shall not direct the movement of the civilian population or individual civilians in order to shield military objectives from attacks or to shield military operations."

– Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, Article 51

[the_Watchman]

I wish someone from the press would ask them why they weren't there to shield the Kurds or the Kuwaiti's! They're a little bit late.

[philetus]

Now, that would be too good to them.

[LuvUSA]

Hey shields...join this club....

[Enough is ENOUGH]

Leftist socialists going to Iraq as human shields.

Hmmm, I don't view this as a problem at all. Perhaps some of the Hollyweirdos who object to the war would like to join them.

[CedarDave]

They're driving to Bagdad. They may have a rough time dodging bomb-made potholes in Iraqi roads.

[Southack]

"The potential for white Western body parts flying around with the Iraqi ones should make them think again about this imperialist oil war," organizer Ken O'Keefe, a former U.S. Marine in the 1991 Gulf War, said Saturday."

It's just too easy to get a spotter into downtown Baghdad these days. I love the cover story.  "Former" marine may be accurate, but 5 will get you 10 he's a current spook on our side.

[LuvUSA]

Hopefully Iraqi dissidents will shoot these people!!!!

[Sidebar Moderator]

I changed the title to the one at the link you posted.

[falfa]

I'm sure their families will probably miss them. (Because they're liberals, they may not have families anyway). They'll soon be forgotten - not even getting the 15 minutes of fame they're craving.

IMHO, the families will be lined up for some form of reparations for the atrocities brought upon their loved ones. (Hey, Arafat might go halvies with us.)

The lib establishment will line up to make movies about them and hold marches in their memory.