[TontoKowalski]

If this is true, one can only imagine that the HUMAN SHIELDS, misled liberals there in Baghdad, are going to be in great danger of injury or death by the Iraqi people.

You could almost have predicted that the repressed Iraqis would turn on these idiots at the first opportunity. Wouldn't you turn on the lowlifes that teamed with the tyrant?

It may be necessary for US forces to save them.

I certainly don't wish them harm, but if we're to save anyone, it should be those who have been oppressed for years, and who we have given the courage and will to fight back and assist in their own liberation.

Those who knowingly chose to put themselves in harm's way are lower on the priority list.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Agreed. Just posting thoughts, not value judgements.

If the US Marines have some spare time after insuring the safety of Baghdad residents who have been under the boot for 20 years, they might take a look around to try to help any Western 'human shields' they can.

Those found should be arrested on the spot for War Crimes and repatriated post haste, to US forces in Guantanamo for de-briefing and trial preparation.