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Unfamiliar With The Concept The "human shields" in Baghdad have apparently packed it in, after being told by Iraqi officials to actually act as human shields. Abdul Hashimi, the head of the Friendship, Peace and Solidarity organization that is officially host to the protesters, told the shields to choose between nine so-called "strategic sites" by today or leave the country. These folks take the phrase "useful idiots" to a whole new, transcendant plateau. [Update at 2:20 PM PST] Everyone else has probably already linked to this, but Charlotte Edwards has the inside story. And so ends the modern Childrens' Crusade--not with a bang, but a whimper. Posted by Rand Simberg at March 02, 2003 07:01 AMTrackBack URL for this entry:
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This proves yet again that Saddam is not interested in protecting his people from hardship, he's just interested in protecting himself and the infrastructure that supports him. And so much for the intestinal fortitude of the human shields. Why didn't they demand to stay in the schools, hospitals and orphanages? Could it be because the host of the Iraqi Human Shield Fun and Games Event is not such a nice, reasonable guy? Mr. Meynell, a former high sheriff of Derbyshire, said he was leaving out of "cold fear." Well Mister High Sheriff, you could leave. Cold fear is what the people of Iraq live with every day. The season of cold fear will continue until Saddam is gone from power, dead or alive. Yep, at the top of the bombing lists are every school, hospital, orphanage and baby milk factory in Iraq. Once those horrors are taken out, then we can start to worry about missile launchers, command-and-control centers, biochem weapons caches and the big SH himself. I still think one of the reasons the start of hostilities in Iraq is taking so long is to allow the various opponents (U.N., peacecreeps, the Arab League, France, and now Turkey) time to make total asses of themselves. If nothing else, they've come out of hiding and exposed themselves for what they are. Raoul, I had the same thought. Dunno as I'd say it's the point of the delay...but it's certainly a happy (and illuminating) side-effect. Posted by T.L. James at March 2, 2003 12:59 PMRaoul, I had the same thought. Dunno as I'd say it's the point of the delay...but it's certainly a happy (and illuminating) side-effect. Posted by T.L. James at March 2, 2003 12:59 PMThey're not even useful. Posted by Sean Kirby at March 2, 2003 02:09 PMRaoul, that's gross. I mean, who milks babies? Posted by Eli at March 2, 2003 08:43 PMI love the line in Edwards' column about how the "tough guy" Ken O'Keefe took his mom with him. I'm reminded of the line from the Beatle's "Bungalow Bill" -- "...in case of accident he always took his mum.."" HA!! What a collection of buffoons!! Posted by Michael M at March 3, 2003 06:05 AM"Transcendant" is not the word that leaps to mind.... Posted by Dodd at March 3, 2003 02:49 PMI'd have said it ended: "Not with a bang, but a snicker." Posted by ralph phelan at March 6, 2003 01:31 PMPost a comment |