Human shields in Blair plea (Don't Hurt me! Don't Hurt Me!)

Yahoo News ^ | 3/18/03

[areafiftyone]

LONDON (Reuters) - Anti-war activists have delivered a letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair, urging him to avoid in the event of war bombing targets in Iraq where human shields are deployed.

The Human Shields Action group, which has about 100 international volunteers deployed in Iraq in a bid to deter military strikes, said on Tuesday it had asked Blair to avoid attacking sites where shields were based.

"The...sentiment which demands that, whatever our opinion about military actions, we should back our forces should also be applied to the human shields," Richard Scrase, director of the London-based Human Shields Action, said in a statement.

"In the event of war, we call on the public to support the brave men and women from Britain who have placed themselves in harm's way in order to try and protect the innocent people of Iraq."

The human shields, who have travelled to Iraq from several Western countries, have called for Blair and U.S. President George W. Bush to face trial for war crimes if they unleash military force on Iraq.

Around 120 human shields are still in Iraq, scattered around nine sites near Baghdad including an oil refinery, food silo, water treatment plant and power stations.

Five of the volunteers, including former U.S. marine Ken O'Keefe who helped bring dozens of people from Britain, were expelled from Iraq after clashing with authorities over the sites where the activists should be deployed.

The remainder said numbers were fluctuating as some returned home and others were still arriving to replace them.

[theDentist]

Any chance we can get Martin Sheen, Susan Sarandon and the rest of the loons to become Human Shields too?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The Human Shields Action Group

[GraniteStateConservative]

They should hang out in Hussein's rape rooms. Hussein will make sure they are taken good care of.

[adam_az]

And the 2003 Darwin Award winner is...

[x-navy seal]

If these people don't want to be hurt, they should go home!

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

We should give them radios to signal their locations!

[SquirrelKing]

All his life Darrell had wanted to make something of himself. His parents wanted him to be a doctor, a lawyer, or a respectable shoe salesman. Instead he had a better idea. He would go to Baghdad as a human shield and become "a fine pink mist".

[KMG365]

These idiots should realize before it is too late that if they survive the bombing campaign, they will be killed by the Iraqis to make it look like we killed them.

But of course, they don't think logically. The honorable Saddam Hussein would never do such a thing!

[Turbo Pig]

I am 100% positive that Tony Blair will fulfill their wishes. He will not attack areas with human sheilds. RAF Tornados, B-52s, B-2s, and a pelethora of other aircraft yes, but not Tony Blair.

[VRWCmember]

To be effective, a group needs a catchy name -- preferably one that forms a good acronym. For the human shield organization, I recommend:
Strategic Human Insertion Team: Fostering Obstruction, Resistance, & Barriers, Rejecting American Interests, & National Security.

[mushroom]

Best laugh I've had all year!

[Mark]

Maybe the Dipsy Chicks will become their USO entertainers.

[bert]

.....they will be killed by the Iraqis to make it look like we killed them.....

Great thought

[RansomOttawa]

I am 100% positive that Tony Blair will fulfill their wishes. He will not attack areas with human sheilds.

I'd prefer he used bombs and guns, myself.

[Lady Heron]

LOL!