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2003-02-21 Iraq

âHuman shieldsâ find things not all they seem

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Posted by Steve 2003-02-21 09:28 am|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "I think the Iraqi Government is potentially putting us in a dangerous position,"

GOOD GOD! How unbelievably stupid do you have to be to travel across a quarter of the world saying you want to be a "human shield" and not realize that could be DANGEROUS?!

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-02-21 09:36:23|| [www.kloognome.com/] 2003-02-21 09:36:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Too bad the "second-thoughts" crowd of ~~naive dupes~~ human shields cannot get their stories out on the mass media. Instead of just plain idiots, they can be useful idiots as a learning tool to people who need to learn the basics of making good life decisions.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-02-21 09:52:40|| 2003-02-21 09:52:40|| Front Page Top

#3 The Iraqi Government is paying to house the volunteers in small hotels in Baghdad and setting up free telephone lines and internet access so they can lobby the folks back home.

On enemy turf and being sponsored by them. Sounds like treason to me. Ask Tokyo Rose about that.

Posted by tu3031 2003-02-21 10:11:39|| 2003-02-21 10:11:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds like they have started to realize that "In the great Scheme of things they aren't worth the sweat of my testicals.Maybe the Holywood peacenicks should join them at the power plant.

Posted by raptor 2003-02-21 10:32:36|| 2003-02-21 10:32:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Darwin Award first-place winners. Too bad Baldwin, Sheen and Sontag and Penn couldn't join them. Via con Dios, amigos. Adios.

Posted by becky 2003-02-21 10:48:51|| 2003-02-21 10:48:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Thay have net access? Any e-mail addys? I'm sure the boys in the backroom over at NSA would like to send them some congrats on successfully infiltrating the Baghdad area...

Posted by mojo 2003-02-21 11:07:59|| 2003-02-21 11:07:59|| Front Page Top

#7 What absolute idiots. I think the only thing that will get through to other like minded idiotarians will be to watch this batch get turned into pizza topping.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-02-21 12:33:16|| 2003-02-21 12:33:16|| Front Page Top

#8 a young Australian who had decided to leave
Aparently one of the smarter idiots. I wonder how many of the dumbest ones will only "protect" a hospital or the hotel they're staying in.

Posted by RW 2003-02-21 13:26:32|| 2003-02-21 13:26:32|| Front Page Top

#9 The only thing they'll be protecting is the bar at the Al Rasheed...

Posted by tu3031 2003-02-21 13:30:24|| 2003-02-21 13:30:24|| Front Page Top

#10 "On enemy turf and being sponsored by them. Sounds like treason to me. Ask Tokyo Rose about that."

well of course theyre not on enemy turf, since we havent gone to war yet. They're only traitors once the shooting starts. And i think once that happens, unlike tokyo rose, theyll have difficulty getting their message out.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-02-21 13:39:54|| 2003-02-21 13:39:54|| Front Page Top

#11 I hope you all are reading Where is Raed? (http://dear_raed.blogspot.com)

If not, you should.

Latest entry includes this:
One of the latest group to arrive in Baghdad, mostly Europeans, were welcomed to the Rasheed hotel , which is like the Waldorf Astoria of Baghdad, no other hotel is more expensive and exclusive. All of them were wearing T-shirts with what was supposed to be "Human Shields" in Arabic, but they had it all wrong it said "Adra'a Basharia" instead of "Duru'u Basharia" which got them a few giggles and a new name; they are now the "Adra'a" just to show how clueless they are. A lot of funny Arabic these days with all these HS's running around, a van with a foreign number plate standing near the ministry of information has "No War" written all over it in many languages the biggest in Arabic. All over the front of it is says "La Harba" which is wrong and sounds like a night club, my cousin thought that was cute. Anyway, what really got my goat this time was finding out that they get food coupons worth 15,000 dinars per meal, 3 for every day.fifteen thousan.
Do you know how much the monthly food ration for a 4 person family is worth, for a whole month not per meal (real cost, not subsidized) ? 30,000 dinars, if you get someone to buy the bad rice they give you for a decent price. 15,000. What are they eating? A whole lamb every meal? Let's put this within context. Today in the morning Raed, our friend G. and I went for a late big breakfast we had 2 tishreeb bagilas (can't explain that, you have to be an Iraqi to get it otherwise it sounds inedible) and a makhlama (which is an omelet with minced meat), tea, fizzy drinks and argila afterwards (the water-pipe-thingy) all for 4,750 dinars, and we were not going super cheap. A lunch in any above-average restaurant will not be more than 8,000 dinars and that includes everything. 15,000 thousand is a meal in a super expensive restaurant in Arasat Street, in one of those places that really almost have an "only foreigners allowed, no Iraqis welcome unless you are UN staff" sign on it. I will stop calling them tourist when they stop taking all this pampering from the Iraqi government.

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These morons have no clue.

Posted by growler 2003-02-21 13:44:22|| 2003-02-21 13:44:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Reminds me of the scene in Animal House, "Hey, it's the Iraqis!!! They LOVE us!!!"

Posted by tu3031 2003-02-21 15:47:58|| 2003-02-21 15:47:58|| Front Page Top

#13 ""On enemy turf and being sponsored by them. Sounds like treason to me. Ask Tokyo Rose about that." well of course theyre not on enemy turf, since we havent gone to war yet."

Actually, we are currently at war, under a ceasefire agreement from 1991, so yes, treason is a valid observation. But it is a war between Iraq and the UN, so I can't see anyone suffering prosecution, unless they wilfully interfere with the US military, something I would not put past any of these idiots.

Posted by john 2003-02-21 19:25:28|| 2003-02-21 19:25:28|| Front Page Top

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