'HUMAN SHIELDS' GATHERING IN BAGHDAD

nypost ^ | 2-14-03 | Sameer N. Yacoub

[Thane_Banquo]

Bombs away!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Tue Feb 11, 5:20 PM ET

Katherina Soederholm, front right, a Norwegian, and other members of the 'human shield' group, which includes Americans, Britons, Australians, Norwegians, Greeks, Swiss and Turks, speak to journalists in Ankara on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2003, before their departure for the Turkey-Syrian border enroute to Baghdad. Iraq granted visas to some 65 ``human shields'' traveling to the country to protest a possible U.S.-led war, a group member said Tuesday. (AP Photo)

[Principled]

Darwin...

[Zavien Doombringer]

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread...

Would you rush to a country you knew was going to be obliterated?

[11th Earl of Mar]

Now if we can only encourage the 2004 Democratic hopefuls to join them.

[mware]

American and European peace activists wrapped their arms around posts on a bridge over the Tigris River on Thursday,

I suspect that these folks know we are NOT going to take out the bridges. Matter of fact I would suspect we are going to try to take the bridges and oil fields first, intacted.

If anyone is going to take out the bridge, it will be Saddam to stall our progress.

[truthkeeper]

The bombing starts in five minutes.

[PMCarey]

``A country that can hardly provide water for its citizens cannot be a threat to the world,'' Ignacio Cano of Spain said.

... and then in the next breath, he no doubt said: "... and why isn't Bush focusing on North Korea which is the far greater threat to the world ..."

[ez]

But they acknowledged their mission was only a gesture meant to try to deter an invasion to topple Saddam Hussein....

These peaceniks live in a fantasy world where putting a flower in a gun barrel is a symbolic gesture that might stop a killing, and being a human shield will stop a war. They are going to be snapped RIGHT BACK to reality when the Pershings start raining down on Iraq, and that bridge is probably going down in the first wave.

They will wet their pants and run for cover when they see that war is not an abstract, symbolic political publicity stunt but a hellhole where real people die, regardless of the "rightness" of their cause. Anyone who would martyr themselves to protect the regime in Iraq deserves to become collateral damage much more than the wise Iraqi civilians who have probably headed for the hills already.

[Lee'sGhost]

I need clarification on nomination rules. Is it permissible to nominate a whole group of people for the Darwin Awards or must they be nominated individually. (Either way, I get dibs.)

[Conspiracy Guy]

What's the splatter rate on a human shield?

[chachacha]

Bye, Bye!

[Catspaw]

``I have no intention of being a martyr,'' Canadian Roberta Taman said.

But she's a human shield? Um, Roberta.....may I help you screw your head back on straight?

[veronica]

The kumbaya crowd - duck and cover. ;)

[BullDog108]

They gotta die first...

[Dirk McQuickly]

I think the world would have been a whole lot better off if they had served as human heat shields instead...

ping for Columbia crew...

[tcostell]

If military action begins and some of these people get hurt, even CNN is going to have a hard time drumming up sympathy for them. Anyone who is dumb enough to rush un-armed into a war zone, in defense of a sadistic military dictator, because they didn't like the way the Florida election turned out, deserves everything they get.

[Jimmyclyde]

``A country that can hardly provide water for its citizens cannot be a threat to the world,'' Ignacio Cano of Spain said.

Um...

Excuse me sir, your name is Igancio and you are a human shield.

You have three brain cells and their all fighting each other.

Kindly lay across the bridge, I hear a F-15 inbound.

[AppyPappy]

Could you change the title to read "Human Targets" please?