[MadIvan]

Chortle. Giggle. ROFL!

Regards, Ivan

[MinuteGal]

The spin begins.

The liberal excuse now going around is that the shields were "naive". Not stupid, not ignorant, not aiders and abettors of the the bloody tyrant, Saddam.....but, "naive".

Never mind that most of them are highly educated and held or hold responsible jobs (like the former High Sheriff of Nuttingham, er, Derbyshire). Most are of an age not exactly in the teeny-bopper category.

These ADULTS knew exactly what they were doing when they got into this farce. Some of them are turning tail now because they DO know exactly what they're doing. They are NOT naifs.

Cold fear trumps warm fuzzy feelings every time.

Leni

[MississippiMan]

As I said a few days ago: When you have people this dumb, I don't understand how their brains manage to issue commands for their hearts to beat, their lungs to inhale and exhale, etc. It's obvious that some of these morons went there really believing they needed to "shield" orphanages and hospitals from western attack. That's utterly incredible that someone's world view could be so far removed from reality.

MM

[dogbyte12]

Too dangerous means that they actually did realize that america and the UK would try to avoid casualties in civilian areas, which kind of negates their argument in the first place.

It is a big old joke. Secondly, the term "human shields" was popularized by Hussein himself, for the use of hostages to be taken at force to his military facilities after he has already invaded Kuwait in 1990.

These so-called peace activists are not in Iraq protesting anything dear Saddam does, just what Uncle Sam does. It shows a twisting of values that exposes these people for who they are.

[Lady Jag]

What did they expect? Were they planning on booking into the Hyatt with the press?

[Peter Libra]

A bit of fantasy based on fact 'ere. The memory blends and blurs as the poet Rupert Brooke quoth. He was talking of "Grantchester"- ah Grantchester. Well the memory blends and blurs again.

A large red London bus edges its way along an East-end Street. The conductor, after more passengers board- a tired shabbily dressed lot, crisply says "Hold very, very tight". Away the bus goes. They look out at the carnage. They wonder who got it from 'Itlers Luftwaffe in the night. They have to get to work- or else, no bloomin' excuses. "Don'tcha know there's a war on?"

They finish their days work and then, some of them have to do a spot of firewatching. It is 1940.

Meynell, sheriff sir, where is your tradition? You have none. You do not have a Just Cause . That is why you, in the idiom, chickened out.

[metalboy]

Stupid is as stupid does

"Thank you all for coming here to help me defend my genocidal regime...Now if you will kindly sit over by the target area, I`m sure the F-16`s will be here shortly to bomb you to smithereens."

[johniegrad]

Ivan: There's gotta be a reality TV show in here somewhere.

[swampfox98]

Human shield Britons quit Baghdad

Ah, shucks. I was hoping the human shields would "ride out" on the first bomb we dropped. Heck!

[right way right]

So now they all have been demoted back from useful idiots to just plain useless idiots!

[BJungNan]

Chortle. Giggle. ROFL! Chortle? MadIvan, remember, these are Yanks your talking to. Giggle and ROFL we understand but Chortle...okay troops. What does Chortle mean (without your dictionary)?

About the human shields going home...Giggle. ROFL!

[way-right-of-center]

You know, I can almost already see the upcoming Mastercard parody coming on this one...

T-shirt with "Human Shield" Screen print... $15

Various plane and bus tickets to Iraq... $3000

Having EVERYONE on the ENTIRE PLANET know that you are a coward by running like a Frenchman before the shooting even started...PRICELESS!!

[PhiKapMom]

LOL!!!!!! This is the funniest article I have read in a long time. Guess they didn't like being stationed around the Iraqi military. Guess you could say their anti-war principles went out the window.

[TADSLOS]

Re: My comment about Darwin Award winners on your other post - Looks like the field is thinning out a bit. The reality of the moment has a way of crystalizing one's committment or lack of it.

[El Gato]

When the going get's tough, the peacniks slink away with their tails between their legs. Plenty of room there for their tails, as they don't seem to have anything else important between their legs.

Those oil refineries, power plants and water treatment facilities sound fairly civilian to me, what's their beef, and they said they only wanted to "defend" (with their good karma one supposes) civlian sites, so what's the problem? Other than the big yellow stripes down their backs.

So much for the courage of their convictions. Give me one good stout "Tommy" for a hundred or a thousand of these types.

[Young Werther]

Form over substance! The protest was where their head was at! When their hosts asked them to "put up", (to wit be a human shield at a real target), they shut up and slunked home! Slink, slank, slunk. Think they got it yet?

[VOA]

Almost all of the first British "human shields" to go to Iraq were on their way home
last night after deciding that their much-heralded task was now too dangerous.

Well at least they got their "-oliday in the sun", as The Sex Pistols used to sing.

Nice to see that the USA isn't the only place afflicted with nuts like Ms. Garafalo.

...and for a good laugh, please visit:
http://www.hollywoodhalfwits.com

[Contra]

Among the group leaving was Jar Jar Binks, who was heard to say "somebody might die?"

[sweetliberty]

"Almost all of the first British "human shields" to go to Iraq were on their way home last night after deciding that their much-heralded task was now too dangerous."

ROTFL! You mean they realized that they might get hit with real bombs and become martyrs to their cause? I guess they're not really Islamic materrial now are they?

By the way, did you catch this one:

GIMME SHELTER: The Hilarious Human Shields

GREAT THREAD!

[onedoug]

"It's my nerves, Sir."

Your nerves?..."

[beaversmom]

"I was a human shield right until a week or so before the bombs started flying."

Poor Saddam. Guess he will just have to resort to the home grown ones.