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On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 11:41:05 GMT,
cru3l_3p1phany@salmahayeksknockers.edu wrote:

>> What exactly do you think the flower children who went to Iraq to have 
>> accomplished, other than to give Saddam and his henchmen fuel for 
>> propaganda?
>
>I don't think they've accomplished a lot, particularly since a lot of them
>have left.  I don't know that they've actually fueled any Iraqi propaganda,
>and if anything, they've reflected badly upon antiwar activism.
>
>On a personal level, as someone who's faced guns and gunfire for my 
>activism,  I can't help but feel a bit of contempt at these fly-by-night
>"Human shields".  

To be fair, they went over expecting to be human shields for
non-combatants. The ones who look the worst in this scenario are
Hussein et al, who had an opportunity to get some good PR, or at the
very least the protection of their medical and other non-military
facilities. Instead, they chose to cynically try to place these people
at military targets. I'm no fan of Dubya, but I'm not about to place
myself at risk to safeguard ANYONE's war machine.

Personally, I think their leaving demonstrates simple common sense. If
they reflect badly on anti-war activism it's because of their naive
idealism in thinking that Saddam Hussein was not the evil dictator
that he is. The opposition to this war, in my view, should be on the
grounds of the hypocrisy and lies of the US government, and not any
attempt to defend Hussein - that way lies madness.


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