[Keith in Iowa]

Fitting end.

[Straight Vermonter]

Shot or bombed? Which is it?

[EternalVigilance]

Sheesh. I thought they had all run away. The Iraqis didn't need em anyhow. They have a whole country full of women and children.

[An.American.Expatriate]

Were these the ones stationed in the day care center (located in the middle of a AAA battery) or the ones shielding the orphanage (in the middle of the city dump where the entrance to Saddam's WMD Arsenal Bunker is)??

[shezza]

Whatever the Iraqi minister says, I believe the opposite is true. In any case, any person who deliberately places himself in front of a legitimate military target had better have his affairs in order, 'cause he himself becomes a legitimate target. I can't believe the delusional self-importance of some of these human shields..."Surely my very presence will prevent the U.S. military from targeting this chemical-weapons plant." Bah!

[flying Elvis]

Don't we have a human shield betting pool floating around here somewhere?

[dawn53]

Those lines in Clay Black's new song seem appropriate:

It may be a smart bomb,
but it finds stupid people too,
If you stand with the likes of Saddam,
then one might just find you.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

At least thest human shields accomplished their mission.

[libertylover]

The gene pool is now just a little bit better.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I tawt I taw a ……....poof!

Indian Muslim Suhail Rokadia displays a stuffed Tweety Bird toy, which he plans to give to children in Iraq, at his shop in Bombay March 27, 2003. The 30-year-old toy importer is one of seven human shields scheduled to leave for Iraq to defend civilians from the U.S.-led war in the country. The group, the first from India, will fly on Sunday to Jordan before travelling by road to Baghdad. The human shields hope their presence at the Iraqi sites will deter U.S.-led forces from destroying the nation's infrastructure and raise global awareness of the cost to civiliars of the war. REUTERS/Sherwin Castro

[mystery-ak]

surprise, surprise!

[AmericaUnited]

human shields shot by US, says Iraqi minister

Finally my tax dollars being used wisely... lol

[RWG]

goes to show you, don't take a shield to a bomb fight.

[Allan]

I am very disappointed.

[laz17]

I am saddened, saddened, and deeply concerned that the coalition forces are not being deterred from bombing legitimate targets because foolish human shields don't have the brains not to stand in front of them.

[Smile-n-Win]

Wow, this is the first time the Iraqi government praises the U.S. military!

[LRS]

human shields shot by US, says Iraqi minister

No wonder this guy constantly looks like he smells something...

[ppaul]

"Why do they hate us?" the leftists ask.

Maybe if we'd stop going to foreign lands and indoctrinating children to hate America and instead tell them what a blessed nation America is, and how she has helped millions the world over, they might grow up to actually like us.

[DonQ]

Since these "human shields" were supposedly killed by an aerial explosive - either a bomb dropped from a plane or a missile - the Americans pulling the switch didn't realize, at that very considerable distance, that one of the people among a cluster of Saddam supporters was an American (or Swede or Belgian or whatever).

A very unfortunate fact, but very true, is that the way to stop the use of human shields - to stop volunteers from helping the enemy or stop the enemy from forcibly putting innocent people in harm's way - is to make it very clear that those people don't even slow us down, and the time and energy spent putting them in our path is time wasted.

[kattracks]

Human shield buses hit by US planes -Iraq minister

BAGHDAD, April 1 (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes attacked two buses bringing American and European peace activists to Baghdad from neighbouring Jordan, Iraq said on Tuesday.

Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf told a news conference the injured were being treated in a hospital near the Jordanian border. He gave no more details of casualties.

"Yesterday an American warplane attacked two buses on the highway between Amman and Baghdad with foreign passengers, among them Americans," Sahaf said, adding later that Europeans had also been on board.

"These were human shields who were coming to Baghdad to be deployed...many of them were injured and taken to hospital at Rutba," he said. "The brave Americans start shooting Americans."

Hundreds of Western activists poured into Baghdad before the war to show their support for the Iraqi people in the weeks leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of the country.

Some of them set up camp in power stations and water plants around the Iraqi capital in a bid to dissuade U.S. military commanders from targeting the facilities.

Others have headed out of the country -- taking buses that shuttle between Baghdad and the Jordanian capital Amman. ((Writing by Crispian Balmer,