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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11The evidence is really overwhelming .... what is your source .... let me guess Donald Rumsfeld ....
Oh God, the US won't be able to carpet bomb those poor civilans now, will it ... what devilish cunning ..... is there no depth to which they will not sink, these sub-human beasts ...etc. etc.
FUCK OFF WITH THIS CRAP MASQUERADING AS "NEWS" AND STOP USING UP VALUABLE SPACE ON THE NEWSWIRE
To be honest the pro-war whinging about Iraqi's not fighting fair is a little unconvincing. I mean they launch this war telling us Saddam is a terrible monster and then they complain about minor infringements of the Geneva convention! You expected a 'monster' not to do this?
There is a long history of military forces using civilians as shields - go up to west Belfast and see where the British military and RUC put their fortified bases for instance. The US army in Vietnam used to force locals to walk in front of their patrols so they'd detonate mines or deter ambushes.
The difference is that the Iraqi army with 30 year old weapons is fighting the most advanced military force in the world. They know what happened to them when they fought in open countryside. So they intend to fight in the cities and hope to defeat the US in the same way the Russians beat the Nazis at Stalingrad. Nasty shit all right but supporters of this war should be aware that 'collateral damage" spin can be used by both sides.
You supported this war. What did you expect. Your asshole leader Bush is managing to make Saddam a nationalist hero in Iraq and across the Arab world. Not good for Arab or US workers - but good for Arab and US bosses who need 'strong leaders' to keep us down.
Couldn't have said it better myself Joe.
The armchair generals and chickenhawks of the West wanted this war, like the little sheep that they are they enthusiastically fell into line behind their leaders ....
Now you dumb-fuck assholes are finally going to learn something:
WAR MEANS THAT PEOPLE GET KILLED AND IT ISN'T ALWAYS GOING TO BE THE ENEMY ......
WAR IS A MESSY BUSINESS AND IF YOU HAVEN'T GOT THE STOMACH FOR IT THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T START IT.
YOU ASSHOLES WANTED IT - OR AT LEAST YOU FOLLOWED YOUR LEADERS WHO WANTED IT .....
NOW YOU'VE GOT IT
SO STOP WHINING ...
that the founder of the the Human Shields
was Ken O'Keefe who served as a U.S. marine in Operation Desertstorm.
The term "human shield" is thus already taken.
It takes quite a while to convert the semiotic meaning of slogans and flags and names.
We have in this current global campaign seen the rainbow flag return to its original meaning as pendant of a multi-party-ideological alliance and not just the banner of Gay Liberation.
I doubt the bellicose have the required global reach to convert "human shield".
so don't try.
The Iraqi regular army is little more than civilians in uniform.
The US/K war machine far outguns and out techs the regular army yet no talk of a turkey shoot there.
You started this war.
you must finish it.
and finishing it will as many of you now have realised mean finishing He who started it.
No more deluded by reaction
On our bosses only we'll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They'll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We'll shoot the generals on our own side.
The Iraqi people you refer to as "Civilians" live there in Nazarea. They are in their homes where their brothers and sisters are fighting galantly against the massed armies of the US/UK Empire invasion force. It is a lie and a misrepresentation to say they are being used as human shields.
Just because the Pentagon says something doesn't mean its neccessarily untrue. It could be bullshit but Saddam's army are hardly angels, they would be very willing to do anything to stay in power, including using Iraqi people as human shields, they have afterall killed 500,000 plus Iraqis, mostly Shias and Kurds. I know the US are bullshiters, I don't believe much of what they say unless it's been confirmed by independent witnesses or Amnesty. All I hope now is that the Iraqi people rise up to get rid of Saddam and his regime and stop the Yanks from taking over.
Long live free Kurdistan!
Long live free Iraq!
Caller to the Joe Duffy show is claiming Sky News has shown footage of US troops near Baghdad using Iraqi prisoners as human shields for their camp
You vile scumbag ... besmirching the honor of the US military ..... everybody knows that they do not do things like that ...
Get it straight for once and for all:
ONLY IRAQIS COMMIT WAR CRIMES .....
THE US IS NOT BOUND BY INTERNATIONAL LAW THEREFORE BY DEFINITION IT CANNOT COMMIT A WAR CRIME .....
I love getting you lot wound up.You cant handle a differing opinin on anything that doesnt fit in with your weltanshauung.Oh BTW if you do want to know who filed the report try a good ol communist station CHNN.THEY wouldnt lie now would they?
Oh well cost what it will your precoius Saddam is going down.BTW wether those civillians where living in Nazareah it still shows that all the Iraqi men??defending that place are low down cowards to drag civvies into a war area.Even the SS made efforts to move German citizens away from the combat areas.
why old chap i do believe it was those upstanding lads in the white house.
did iraqis ask to be invaded? i think not.