I Was A Human Shield In Iraq

Ryan Clancy

[wimpycat]

Help me out with the slang, Ivan. Is this guy a twit or a git?

[McGavin999]

So you, in your infinite compassion, would rather we stand by and allow those people to live in fear and poverty. You think it's OK that Saddam cuts out tounges, dips his people in acid vats, kills or imprisons them as he chooses, threatens their families. I see.

Gee, take your compassion somewhere else will you, decent people don't want to be around someone like you.

[PETAMember]

"Blowing up Iraq is not going to endear the remaining 100 million muslims in the world to the U.S."

Only two (out of two) things inaccurate about dumbo's reasoning - nobody is going to "blow up Iraq", and there are a billion Muslims in the world, 900+ million of whom do not live in Iraq. This is a particularly telling example of liberal reasoning.

PETA, by the way, recently pointed out that since weasels are courageous, honorable little critters, it is slanderous to compare them with the French.

[Kevin Curry]

I am terrified

Yes, we know.

[Stultis]

You said seeing that picture, you cried for the first time in many years. Didn't you cry when you saw pictures of those poor people jumping from WTC?

Good catch! I missed that.

[Bars4Bill]

[Cultural Jihad]

Anybody wonder why the White House has dragged this out so long? Could it be that this war needs to happen a little closer to the election so GW doesn't peak too early like daddy did?

Someone dropped his shield and made a mess. Clean-up in Aisle 34.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

He is a panty shield!

[DainBramage]

Funny how that happens.

[jackbill]

This idiot is nothing but a Maxi-Shield.

[ThomasMore]

I was not comforting the enemy – I was comforting the Iraqi people.

Obstructing war efforts is "aiding and abetting" and therefore comforting. A treasonous act. You wanna peacefully protest here, is one thing. What you and others are doing, as American citizens, is treasonous.

[Cicero]

Do you know why Iraqi children are starving, in spite of billions of dollars in oil money flowing into the country?

a) Because the UN is holding on to half the money instead of using it for food and medicine.

b) Because Saddam is channeling all the supplies to his friends and starving his enemies, and the UN says it's up to Saddam to decide how to spend it.

c) Because Saddam is spending a large part of national income on weapons, which the French, Germans, Russians, and North Koreans are very kindly selling to him.

[ladtx]

Was that a zot I heard?

[MadIvan]

Both. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[Alberta's Child]

Sen. Lindsey Graham recently called our actions as Human Shields "treasonous" and hopes to see us punished for more than the ten years in jail and $1 million in fines that the law currently allows for. He said that we were "giving aid and comfort to the enemy."

With all due respect, Lindsey Graham is out to lunch on this one. American citizens who act as human shields are only considered "treasonous" because the United States has taken it upon itself to allow these people to impact our military's war plans.

Why not just let Mother Nature and Uncle Sam run their natural course? The first time a "human shield" comes back from Iraq in a coffee can will be the last time Lindsey Graham will ever need to concern himself with human shields in Iraq.

[esopman]

"...even knowing that I was from a country whose stated aim is to bomb them back into the stone age."

The rhetoric, clumsy emotionalism and outright mendacity of this statement beggars the imagination. President Bush and our military leadership are going to extraordinary ends to protect civilians while removing a 21st Century Hitler. Never, never, never have you heard our leadership say anything approximating 'bomb them back into the stone age.'

The equation is simple. There will be less suffering and death through the removal of Saddam and his coterie of madmen than by leaving them in power.

Would you have traveled to Berlin in 1938 to express solidarity with the German people or would you have supported the removal of Hitler?

The spirit of Neville Chamberlain lives in the disastrously ill-informed efforts of those who have learned nothing from history.

[Sloth]

Why did you come back? Oh yeah, you're a coward.

[sirchtruth]

"I was not comforting the enemy – I was comforting the Iraqi people. The only aid that I provided was construction paper and crayons for children, and I did so fairly confident that they would not be used to make weapons of mass destruction.

What YOU fail to understand about your actions is that you not only put yourself in danger, but you put other American's in danger for your selfish acts...and make no mistake about it, your act was selfish! By placing yourself in harms way (with or without crayons)you would have forced the allied forces to possibly have to alter an effective campaign to take out Saddam, not the people of Iraq.

This is your shortsigtedness and by acting in this treasonist way (Whether you understand it or not) you should have to abide by what the law of this land dictates....if you would have come back alive!

[SupplySider]

"If we set the precedent that countries can be justifiably attacked because we don't agree with them and they have weapons of mass destruction, I am afraid that we will become the next target."

Is it a precedent to enforce a cease-fire agreement reached with a country you defeated in its war of agression? We didn't pick Iraq out of the blue.