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Send the human shields 'home' (Michelle Malkin)
TownHall.com ^ | 3/07/03 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 03/06/2003 9:17:10 PM PST by kattracks

What color is a human shield? Crayola needs to invent a new hue weaker than lemonade and paler than jaundice: Traitor Yellow.

Showing the cowardice of their deluded convictions, dozens of Americans, Brits, Canadians and Australians who went to Iraq to protect Saddam Hussein's regime with their unshaven, Eddie Bauer-clothed bodies are now fleeing.

When Iraqi Republican Guards tried to move their pampered Western pawns in front of nuclear plants and electricity stations in preparation for impending war, the human shields buckled. Daniel Pepper, a 22-year-old Pennsylvania student, told the London Sunday Telegraph that he was appalled when Saddam's soldiers dispatched him to a yucky oil refinery.

It was "sinister," Pepper sniveled, to expect him to "sleep 50 yards from stacks billowing with black smoke." Sinister? Before he and his abettors recklessly volunteered to run interference for Saddam, the miffed Mr. Pepper should have asked the Kurds about the Iraqi dictator's penchant for exposing innocent civilians to far more deadly fumes than secondhand oil refinery smoke. We need to "negotiate," young Pepper wheedled.

Oh, dear, and they were having such a blast, these human shields, what with all the free cigarettes and PlayStations that those nice Iraqi soldiers had been handing out. How could Saddam have turned so, so inconsiderate? Why couldn't he just position them somewhere less smoky and more secure -- like on top of a sofa in a Baghdad hospital lounge or behind the toy chest in a day-care playroom?

Somebody call a wahmbulance. The pathetic peace-mongers want to come "home."

That's right. Warped American human shields -- who violated our laws banning citizens from traveling to Iraq without State Department clearances -- are knocking on the door of the birthplace they have forsaken in word and deed.

One of them is Benjamin Joffe-Walt, a 23-year-old American human shield from the Philadelphia area who left Iraq after a few weeks of shield duty and returned to Canada this week, where he's a high school teacher. Joffe-Walt says his trip "was very stressful" (it was really harrowing, for example, trying to figure out what time the group of human shields should go to bed), but he'd make the manly sacrifice again. For now, Joffe-Walt wants to re-enter the U.S. to speak to students at his alma mater, Philly's Central High School, presumably to indoctrinate new recruits.

"I'll be the first human shield to re-enter the U.S.," Joffe-Walt bragged to the Philadelphia Daily News. "I don't expect to get arrested. I'm not worth the time, and it would set off a big media storm."

Bring it on.

Americans such as Benjamin Joffe-Walt and Daniel Pepper who trekked to Iraq to take orders from Saddam's sadists have betrayed their country and effectively renounced their citizenship. Their naivete is not benign. They should no longer be welcome here. And our government should say so.

American human shields who want to retain all the rights and privileges of citizenship will bleat about their free speech rights. Well, it's one thing to paint a peace sign on your soft yellow belly and prance around naked on your college campus. It is quite another to take that belly onto foreign soil to deliberately engage in hostilities against the U.S., and to knowingly sabotage our government's efforts to provide for the common defense.

I agree with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who noted in a letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft this week: "It is my opinion that any American who voluntarily engages in conduct to impede a potential American military operation, and who thereby endangers the lives of our nation's men and women in uniform, is participating in a program designed to weaken the power of the United States to wage war successfully. I strongly believe efforts to impede a potential military operation against Iraq should be strongly dealt with . . . "

Saddam's American buffers have proven themselves to be as willfully treacherous as American al Qaeda enemy combatant John Walker Lindh. The only place that's fit for these stateless turncoats to call home is a detainee bunk bed at Guantanamo Bay.

©2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

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Iraq sends five human shields home (Leader, Former U.S. Marine Ken O'Keefe Told to Leave)
1 posted on 03/06/2003 9:17:10 PM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks
major bump!
2 posted on 03/06/2003 9:21:04 PM PST by Roberts
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To: kattracks
Send the human shields 'home' (Michelle Malkin)

Let them stay (harry palmer)

3 posted on 03/06/2003 9:25:58 PM PST by harry palmer
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To: kattracks
Black smoke? Sinister?

We regret he was not able to have acid dripped on him by one of Saddam's sons in his personal torture chamber. That would have been clarifying to a much greater degree.

4 posted on 03/06/2003 9:27:45 PM PST by AmericanVictory
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To: Roberts
Finally something not about immigration. I like it when she broadens her horizons like this. This would have made a great reality TV show -- cameras following around the "shields". The TV show wouldn't have to have long auditions to find the scum at the bottom of the barrel -- the scum would have just poured out.
5 posted on 03/06/2003 9:29:03 PM PST by Naspino
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To: kattracks
bump.....thanks for the post.
6 posted on 03/06/2003 9:29:49 PM PST by Lady Eileen
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To: firebrand; StarFan; Dutchy; stanz; RaceBannon; Cacique; Clemenza; rmlew; NYC GOP Chick; ...
Somebody call a wahmbulance. The pathetic peace-mongers want to come "home."

Yup, Michelle's definitely a FReeper!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent ping list.

7 posted on 03/06/2003 9:39:51 PM PST by nutmeg (Liberate Iraq - Support Our Troops!)
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To: kattracks
This found in the dictionary under "duh".
8 posted on 03/06/2003 9:45:38 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Okie by proxy, raised by Yankees, temporarily Californian)
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To: kattracks
This is just pathetic if there is a debate.

The scum should be either at the end of a rope or in jail.
9 posted on 03/06/2003 9:45:49 PM PST by ConservativeNewsNetwork
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To: kattracks
Or as Michael Savage calls them - the human shills
10 posted on 03/06/2003 9:52:46 PM PST by patriot5186
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To: kattracks
Benjamin Joffe-Walt's Email should be appropriately FReeped.

According to Fox News, this freakin' loser dirtbag waste of oxygen has already returned home:

• A Volunteer Human Shield?

Why would anyone voluntarily consent to be a "human shield" in Saddam Hussein's Iraq? The answer might just surprise you. John talks with Benjamin Joffe-Walt who has just returned from Baghdad. He was one of the people organizing a human shield effort in Iraq. He also plans to return to Iraq in the near future and he'll explain why.

Benny Joffe-Walt, the asshat traitor, is the jerkwad standing on the left holding the papers. This picture was taken in Baghdad where, apparently he was making a statement about what a traitorous bastard he is. Around him you see a few more traitorous asshats who also shouldn't be allowed back into the United States after giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

Did I happen to mention that asshat traitor Joffe-Walt is Jewish. I guess he thinks Saddam's plan to exterminate Israel is just fine. I guess betraying America wasn't enough, now he has betrayed his own Jewish heritage. Words fail me...

11 posted on 03/06/2003 9:54:51 PM PST by Spiff
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To: nutmeg
I'd have to say she ranks right up there with Annie Coulter!!
12 posted on 03/06/2003 9:57:29 PM PST by Nitro
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To: kattracks
"ARE THEY FOR US OR AGAINST US?" (Updated Daily.)

13 posted on 03/06/2003 9:59:54 PM PST by Cindy
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To: kattracks
"One of them is Benjamin Joffe-Walt, a 23-year-old American human shield from the Philadelphia area who left Iraq after a few weeks of shield duty and returned to Canada this week, where he's a high school teacher. Joffe-Walt says his trip "was very stressful" (it was really harrowing, for example, trying to figure out what time the group of human shields should go to bed), but he'd make the manly sacrifice again. For now, Joffe-Walt wants to re-enter the U.S. to speak to students at his alma mater, Philly's Central High School, presumably to indoctrinate new recruits. "I'll be the first human shield to re-enter the U.S.," Joffe-Walt bragged to the Philadelphia Daily News. "I don't expect to get arrested. I'm not worth the time, and it would set off a big media storm." Bring it on."


BRING IT ON!!!

14 posted on 03/06/2003 10:02:09 PM PST by Cindy
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To: ConservativeNewsNetwork
"The scum should be either at the end of a rope or in jail."

I choose the end of a rope.(my apology to the rope)

That was multiple choice, wasn't it?
15 posted on 03/06/2003 10:20:20 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Okie by proxy, raised by Yankees, temporarily Californian)
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To: kattracks
What if we don't want them back? They want to be "citizens of the world", so let them float around at sea until they croak!
16 posted on 03/06/2003 10:25:15 PM PST by LRS
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To: Blue Collar Christian
A big MM bump
17 posted on 03/06/2003 10:33:11 PM PST by maranatha
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To: All
"Americans such as Benjamin Joffe-Walt and Daniel Pepper who trekked to Iraq to take orders from Saddam's sadists have betrayed their country and effectively renounced their citizenship. Their naivete is not benign. They should no longer be welcome here. And our government should say so."

Damn Right!!!

Go Michelle!

18 posted on 03/06/2003 10:59:46 PM PST by KaiserofKrunch
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To: kattracks
Don't let the yellow bellied scum back into this country.
19 posted on 03/06/2003 11:12:06 PM PST by goldstategop
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To: AmericanVictory
Black smoke? Sinister?

Mom? Dad? Can I come home now? I really didn't mean it, and now I understand what you mean't in our previous conversations. Will you forgive me?

GO to your room youngin'!

20 posted on 03/06/2003 11:13:57 PM PST by EGPWS
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