[MadIvan]

What a gaggle of fools.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[Oztrich Boy]

Obviously a group who consider you're never too old to join the Children's Crusade

[NonValueAdded]

To paraphrase Bugs Bunny, "What a bunch of maroons." So all is not wine and roses in beautiful downtown Baghdad. Too bad, so sad!

[xJones]

At the Andalus hotel five kilometres away, Dr Abdul Hashimi, the official overseeing their mission in Iraq, had issued the shocked group with an ultimatum: deploy to the "strategic sites" hand-picked by the government or leave immediately.

And so they left - except for O'Keefe and his significant mother, I suppose. After the war, we'll probably have to pay reparations for those anachronisms..

[hellinahandcart]

"We always understood that human shield meant a shield of humans and that we would be allowed to work with Iraqi civilians. Why it is being interpreted differently now?"

It's not being interpreted differently. "Human shield" refers to a shield MADE of humans, and it always has. You guys are the ones who decided it meant something else. Suckers.

[anniegetyourgun]

"...but they all shared one trait: naivety..."

Actually, that's STUPIDITY.

[smokeyjon]

Ken O'Keefe's insane ranting on Fox News was particularly entertaining. Anyone who saw him should have no doubt about the "messiah complex" the author described.

[ewing]

Man, this is great... 20 Iraqi Oil Refinery guards for every 8 'human shields'-I wonder what that means!! (besides the fact that there is plenty of food and water right next to the refinery)

[rface]

what a well written commedy! I laughed my ass off .... £500 spent on prozac - I have to go pick up my ass off of the floor because I laughed so hard it just fell off!

Sounds like this is a script for a made-for-TV movie - I'd watch it and I'd laugh my ass off again!

Thanks for the laugh

[Alouette]

a £500 donation from a well-wisher in Istanbul was squandered on boxes of Prozac in a misguided attempt to cheer up the war-weary Iraqi civilians.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! What a waste! Couldn't they find any good hash?

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Useful idiots that Sodom has no use for.

[razorback-bert]

boxes of Prozac in a misguided attempt to cheer up the war-weary Iraqi civilians

Prozac will get you through times of war better than war through times of no prozac.

[stands2reason]

A Hold muh Granola alert...

Later, a £500 donation from a well-wisher in Istanbul was squandered on boxes of Prozac in a misguided attempt to cheer up the war-weary Iraqi civilians.

Conspiracy theories spread like a contagion through the ranks. Whenever a puncture occurred it would be blamed on the CIA. "It's sabotage," Peter Van Dyke, 36, had whispered to a bemused mechanic as he removed a thick screw from a flat tyre in a garage outside Naples.

[Steel Wolf]

The eccentric, eclectic group, none of whom fitted the "peacenik" stereotype, may have been drawn from all ages, backgrounds and experience, but they all shared one trait: naivety.

If that doesn't say it all, I don't know what does.

[GnL]

Either it's April Fools Day or this article is from the Onion. No way anything real could be that funny!

[Jemian]

"Sue, I can let you have some of my prunes. If it would help."

ROTFLOL!!!

[Savage Beast]

"they all shared one trait: naivety"

I sounds a lot more like: stupidity.

[AnnaZ]

I live for these updates. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[dixiechick2000]

*snort* bump!

[Budge]

One afternoon, Sue Darling posted an angry message on the Andalus hotel noticeboard: "Can whoever stole my bag of nuts, sultanas and dried bananas, please return them. They are my emergency rations". Godfrey scrawled below: "Sue, I can let you have some of my prunes. If it would help."

Sounds like Godfrey has a smidgin of a sense of humor.