Human Shields: "On second thought, we don't want to get bombed"

[Az]

That's some funny stuff.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
The difference is that the chickendoves are all talk, and no action.

The chickenhawks are lots of talk, and someone else's action.

Speak for yourself my friend. I am a member of the VFW.

[Dinner]

I'd say Saddam was putting them next to extremely high risk sites (next to military bases instead of in say hospitals) because he wants to see most of them end up dead. Alive there worth very little but just think of the miles they'd get from the propoganda after the chickendoves are killed by the evil Americans.

[Spiffor]

I'm glad they left. Their action would have brought nothing but help to the Saddam regime (by protecting military bases rather than hospitals). And I'm glad they have enough survival instinct to leave before the slaighter begins

[Lancer]

I figgured this was going to happen, but I thought Saddam would forcibly make them human shields, not let them leave. I thought they would be tied to tanks, etc...

Remember when Saddam took human shields last time out, his news conference with the scared little British kid, among others kidnapped and later released do to world opinion.

[Lincoln]

Well all is not lost. There is still the option of setting their hair on fire in London.

[JohnT]

Originally they were just stupid. But now they have completed their descent into patheticness.

[Dis]

what bothers me is they thought they would go to low risk sites like hospitals.

How can you be a human shield at a hospital? That makes no sense.

To be effective at as a human shield you must go to a high risk site.

So it turns out they just wanted attention, and really had no interest in actually being a human shield.

[Panag]

hi ,

chickens , ......

have a nice day

[Dinner]

"Wait, wait, wait. You mean being a human shield means I might get bombed trying to save a military installation? Wow, no one told me that. I think I'll be going now."

[loinburger]

I just don't understand what good they thought it would do to act as a human shield for, say, a hospital. "Commence the attack on the hospital immediately! No, wait, there's a British citizen acting as a human shield for the hospital! Crap! Wiping out several thousand hospitalized Iraqis is one thing, but killing a British citizen is something else entirely! Scrub the mission!" Am I missing something here?

[Spiffor]

IIUC, they could fear massive bombings on Iraqi cities, and maybe even carpet bombings. It is possible they have thought their presence would make the US hesitate to massbomb, to go for precision bombings on military installations.
I don't know any of these guys, but it is plausible they reason like that.

[Dinner]

The amount of ignorance these people have is appalling. Some how I actually think they believed the Allies won wars by bombing hospitals. Maybe now they have a clearer understanding that it is military facilities that get the cruise missiles and not the hospitals that Saddam had been claiming.

It makes you think how nutty some of the other far left ideas are, doesn't it?

[Panag]

Originally posted by Spiffor
IIUC, they could fear massive bombings on Iraqi cities, and maybe even carpet bombings. It is possible they have thought their presence would make the US hesitate to massbomb, to go for precision bombings on military installations.
I don't know any of these guys, but it is plausible they reason like that.

hi ,

who is going to think about it , ......


bomb them

traitors

have a nice day

[DanS]

All of these people were likely British and American agents.