[AmericanInTokyo]

Nope. This is not an "April Fools Joke".

I think the real reason is they are starting to suspect that if the Iraq government does not 'off' them for the propaganda war, they will be torn to bits by the Iraqi citizens when they are finally liberated and the "Stockholm Syndrome" that they have under years of terrorist dictatorship, starts to wear off, and they figure out who their 'real protectors' were all along.

[SAMWolf]

Gee, I hope they don't try to run any roadblocks.

[pgyanke]

Boy, talk about the power of your convictions! I'm impressed! [/sarcasm]

[jwalburg]

Too late: human shields shot

[Bahbah]

"I was actually quite relieved when I saw they were Australians,"
as opposed to, I suppose, those savage Americans. LOL. What a dope.

[WaveThatFlag]

"The Iraqi people are starting to get quite fed up and quite angry with the coalition forces because these ordinary Iraqi families just want to get on with their lives in peace."

In that case, they know just what they have to do...

[Lowcountry]

Looks like "Shock and Awe" is working.....

[demnomo]

Yup. These useful idiots ain't afraid of what the Coalition forces "may do to them." They have far greater worries. Like getting stoned by the Iraqi people that they were supposed to "protect." A few weeks in Ba'athist "paradise" has wised them up a bit and I'll bet that they are far more afraid of what the soon-to-be liberated Iraqi people may do to "friends" and "coddlers" of the former brutal regime.

More than a few FReepers have predicted this. On a related note, one of the "Human Shields" (an assyrian Pastor, I believe) who finally saw the light had escaped earlier with smuggled video interviews of oppressed Iraqi people. He will be on 20/20 this week with Barbra Walters to talk about the evil Iraqi government and how he was terribly wrong about opposing this war. Must see TV.

[Grampa Dave]

Hopefully, they will be captured by Kurds or some other group of Free Iraqis.

Then they can have a quick trial and convict these clymers of aiding and abetting the War Criminals of Soddomite.

Then they can administer justice and put their stinking heads on pikes.

That might serve as a warning to left wing lunatics who might rush to the next Axis of Evil country.

[Sam Cree]

"they are starting to suspect that if the Iraq government does not 'off' them for the propaganda war, they will be torn to bits by the Iraqi citizens"

Yep

[bmwcyle]

Blind and stupid in no way to go through life. What hole did they come from?

[SolutionsOnly]

"RUN AWAY!" "RUN AWAY!"
-monty python and the holy grail-

[MattinNJ]

"Australian human shield Donna Mulhearn has fled Baghdad...I was actually quite relieved when I saw they were Australians"

Let me get this straight. Back home you were calling Australian soldiers butchers of women and children, but now your relieved to see them. Is it me, or do liberals not make any sense. I would have laughed my ass off if the Aussies chipped in and paid the bus driver to taker back to Bagdhad.

[headsonpikes]

Seeing 'human shields' torn apart by angry mobs in Bagtown might be shocking, and awful, but it could be a wake-up call for the '30-something' adolescents of Liberal America.

[The Toad]

"The Iraqi people are starting to get quite fed up and quite angry with the coalition forces because these ordinary Iraqi families just want to get on with their lives in peace."

Then demand that your leader, Saddam, surrender.

[journey7873]

Reminds me of..."Run away, run away", from the Holy Grail.