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03-22-2003, 10:16 PM | #1 | |
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"I was a naive fool to be a human shield for Saddam"
http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/op...3/23/ixop.html
The above link is required reading for all anti-war. Recommended for everyone. A former "human shield" describes his experiences in Baghdad. Quote:
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03-22-2003, 10:31 PM | #2 |
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Of course there are bad things happening in Iraq. One of many places in the world where there are bad things happening. That doesn't mean we had to go in and "liberate" the Iraqi people.
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03-22-2003, 11:25 PM | #3 |
Umm ... yeah.
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Of course we have to stand up for third world people. This is the way of the US. We care and protect all. Just look at the way we've lept forward to defend the people of Cambodia... no wait... um... nevermind.
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03-23-2003, 01:26 AM | #4 | |
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03-23-2003, 01:29 AM | #5 |
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By whose morals?
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03-23-2003, 02:00 AM | #6 |
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Mine, bitch.
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03-23-2003, 02:32 AM | #7 |
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Whew! That's reassuring!
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03-23-2003, 05:12 AM | #8 |
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Correct me if i'm wrong but wasen't the whole human shield thing about protecting civvies from allied bombing, not supportin Saddam? I really don't see (unless say the human shield was a clueless moron) how supporting or not Saddam's regime comes into it, even supporting the war or not.
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03-23-2003, 09:22 AM | #9 |
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I guess it worked - the lights are still on.
Oh wait the human shields have all left. |
03-23-2003, 09:48 AM | #10 | |
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"Naive Fool II" - this time an American, in a paragraph buried in a UPI story about Jordan:
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=...1-023627-5923r Quote:
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03-23-2003, 09:52 AM | #11 |
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And to think about this a slightly different way --
I am easily convinced there isn't a moral duty to stop torture and killing just because one can. What intrigues me now is why other countries wanted to stop the coalition from stopping torture and killing... almost at any political cost. They wanted that torture and killing to continue... even if someone else was going to take the responsibility of stopping it... preferring their big oil contracts. So, isn't "No blood for oil" a really really TERRIBLE anti-war slogan right about now? |
03-23-2003, 02:57 PM | #12 |
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When the war moves to Bagdhad we'll see who dies.
Well i'm glad you can see it in such neat black and white.
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03-23-2003, 09:55 PM | #13 | |
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03-27-2003, 01:55 PM | #14 |
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There are 26 people, not "human shields", that stayed in Baghdad. Iraq Peace Team Of course they report a different take. They have a peace agenda. You can add it to the moral guesswork.
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03-30-2003, 03:40 PM | #15 | |
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