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2003-01-21 Axis of Evil

Goofs head for Iraq to be human shields...

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-01-21 03:31 pm|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Even if they do survive the onslaught, how are they going to get back?
Seems when Congress invoked the 'War Powers' act late last year against Iraq, that pretty much places these Swiftian American yahoos into the 'aid and abet the enemy' clause of the Constitution. If the local liberated Iraqis don't do harm to them, the'll find themselves classified as agents of a belligerent power captured [?]on the battlefield.

Posted by Don 2003-01-21 15:55:45|| 2003-01-21 15:55:45|| Front Page Top

#2 You can take a bus from Romania to Iraq? That sounds like the Greyhound from Hell.

Posted by JAB 2003-01-21 16:46:10|| 2003-01-21 16:46:10|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm not the first one to make this point, but it bears repeating: the sock puppets who pull stunts like this are the same sock puppets who whinge and moan about the U.S. being a facist totalitarian murderous rapacious baby killing monster run amok you get the idea. But the very fact that these pinheads think their presence in Iraq would be enough to prevent US bombs proves that, whether they admit it (or even know it) or not, they actually believe the US to be a moral country (I don't believe countries can be moral or immoral, but you know what I mean) - can you imagine anyone, even these idiots, acting as human shields to stop an Iraqi, or North Korean, or Syrian, or shit, even Cuban, attack? Of course not. None of those countries ever hesitates to slaughter innocent civilians, whether their own citizens or not. Nichols' clueless cohorts' plan presupposes that the U.S. and Britain would not intentionally drop bombs on civilians.

That being said, ciao. More candidates for the 2003 Darwin awards.

Posted by stubbylibrarian 2003-01-21 16:59:50|| 2003-01-21 16:59:50|| Front Page Top

#4

Here's Ken Nichol's, USMC home page. He sounds like every blanket party candidate that I can remember....

Posted by tu3031 2003-01-21 17:01:14|| 2003-01-21 17:01:14|| Front Page Top

#5 OOOPs...
http://www.uksociety.org/Ken's%20Pics/pages/Dumbass!---1989_jpg.htm

Posted by tu3031 2003-01-21 17:01:57|| 2003-01-21 17:01:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Sounds like we could get ourselves a two-fer: nail Saddam and a few Romaanian Workers Party lemmings. Perhaps the Bucharest government will express their gratitude in some way.

Stubby is right: the human shields' only hope is that we're too decent and moral to attack an Iraqi AAA gun or ammo depot in the presence of these mopes. It also demonstrates the moral bankruptcy of both the shields and of Saddam. Betcha they don't realize that, of course.

Posted by Steve White 2003-01-21 18:18:42|| 2003-01-21 18:18:42|| Front Page Top

#7 If they think that, they're toast. I'll be really surprised if the commanders on the spot give them a second thought.

Posted by Fred 2003-01-21 18:41:05|| 2003-01-21 18:41:05|| Front Page Top

#8 It's ying and yang, they provide the suicide bombers, we provide the suicide targets. Symmetry in nature, all about Ms Crow's "kharma". Bunch of loosers.

Posted by john 2003-01-21 19:18:30|| 2003-01-21 19:18:30|| Front Page Top

#9 If these humanoid shields are two dimensional thinkers, then they have a chance of survival when the ordinance falls from above if they are on the perimeter. If they cover the earth, like the paint commercial, then it's like hitting an army ant bivouac. The main point is that these folks consider themselves civilians, but they have volunteered for this duty, so they are combatants, and are subject to redefinition as "toast" if the occasion occurs. To keep the CNN types from exploiting the situation, an EMP pulse bomb should be used to shut off the media switch right before the mission.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-01-21 19:59:23|| 2003-01-21 19:59:23|| Front Page Top

#10 A National Post column (no link yet) today made this point: these human shields are going because they think that they're more important than Iraqis. In their minds, their deaths as white Westerners would be more important or more newsworthy than the deaths of Iraqi civilians. So they go, expecting that to make a difference. It apparently doesn't occur to them that the US and British forces would take the deaths of Iraqi civilians just as seriously as the deaths of Westerners. Which means, of course, that those forces will have no greater reluctance to kill those Westerners if it is militarily necessary than to kill anyone else.

Posted by Patrick 2003-01-21 21:29:22|| 2003-01-21 21:29:22|| Front Page Top

#11 Those morons might actually learn something when they get over there: like how the Iraqi people don't actually love Saddam after all, and how *they* are not welcome. And they'll learn a little something about Islamic attitudes to kuffars/women no doubt, too.

Posted by Down Under 2003-01-21 22:38:47|| 2003-01-21 22:38:47|| Front Page Top

#12 As Dem Beste points out, Ken Nichol's and company are going real slow in order to get to Iraq. They are taking a car. By the time they get to Turkey, the bombs should be falling. They will be too late to get killed.

Posted by Ben 2003-01-22 03:17:17|| 2003-01-22 03:17:17|| Front Page Top

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