human shields shot by US, says Iraqi minister

[EricT.]

He's gonna need something a bit more powerful than that TweetyBird toy to protect Iraqis against a B-2 carrying a couple 4600 lb. Bunker busters.

[brooklin]

sounds about right.

[CarmelValleyite]

Really??? Sure HOPE so!

[raygun]

So? And his point is?

Let's see, Hitler invaded Poland. Human shields defended Poland. Hitler invaded Russia. Human shields defended Russia. The allies invaded Normandy. Human shields defended the beach. There were a whole bunch of human shields in Hamburg, Nagaskaki and Hiroshima weren't there? Weren't there also a bunch of human shields at Gettysburg? Also oodles of human shields in Savannah, GA to stop Sherman's march? Oh, and yes there were a bunch of human shields an Shiloh, and Antietam. Vicksburg had a lot of human shields too. Weren't there a bunch of human shields in Rome when the Visigoths came a knocking? OH, and I seem to remember a bunch of human shields preventing the Mongol hordes from having their way.

Is it just me, or don't human shields seem to be very effective? The idea behind soldiering seems something like believing in a principle so strongly to take up arms in order to enforce the principles one adheres to by killing as many of the opposition as possible. The idea of human shields is to kill oneself in such large numbers that the princples one holds adheres to is extinguished through attrition. I thinks its just me, but the point of diminishing returns is not a hard equation to figure out there, you know?

[legman]

What kind of men would hide behind women and children?

What cowards!

This just goes to prove that the media will try to spin anything to blame Americans. The media is complicit in the Iraqi cowardice.

May all the Bathists die and receive 72 virgins who look like Helen Thomas.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Bummer. Sorry for their family's loss.

(Perhaps if these "human shields" had been able to read about the criminal regime they were supporting, they'ed have been alive right now.)

But the western press didn't WANT that story get spread around.

[Taffini]

oh well.

[B4Ranch]

Thinking alike, "They were militants on their way from Jordan."

[Spruce]

Seperated at birth

[Robert DeLong]

I'm implying that they were not human shields at all but rather they were Iraqi's who were coming from Amman to fight for Saddam. If they were human shields it's a 50/50 proposition that they were killed by Saddam's forces or ours. Doesn't matter, because the bottomline is that if they were human shields or they were Iraqi's going to fight for Saddam, I am not the least bit upset that they are dead.