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2003-09-04 Iraq

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Posted by Steve 2003-09-04 11:31:08 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Steve - good article. Can you point to the source of this letter. Would like to point some people to it.

Posted by GregJ 2003-9-4 11:53:23 AM|| 2003-9-4 11:53:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 GregJ, it's in the Washington Times. Just click on the title of a post and it will take you to the original story.

Posted by Steve 2003-9-4 12:00:56 PM|| 2003-9-4 12:00:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I suspect Joseph of being a CIA plant. No -real- human shield is this capable of critical thinking.
(sorry for misplacing it below)

Posted by Ernest Brown 2003-9-4 2:44:43 PM|| [saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2003-9-4 2:44:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually, I suspect Joseph of being a "pretend-shield" with religious ulterior motives. He's an Assyrian Christian missionary who got into Iraq last year by claiming to be "anti-war".

Posted by Mitch H. 2003-9-4 3:00:18 PM|| 2003-9-4 3:00:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, Mitch, I remember Joseph's pre-war article. He did claim to be anti-war until he talked to Iraqis, both Chrisian and Muslim, who gave him the non-Baghdad Bob picture of the situation. So, it depends if you believe that people such as he are capable of changing their minds once confronted with a complete contradiction of what they had been previously fed. If he has ulterior motives, they are at worst his wanting to stick up for his co-religionists peacefully. Wish the scum from Saudi, Iran, and Syria had similar methods of supporting co-religionists.

Posted by Michael 2003-9-4 5:00:13 PM|| 2003-9-4 5:00:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Michael: of course. My point was that I didn't think he was a CIA plant - just that he had interests other than human-shielding in that country.

Posted by Mitch H. 2003-9-4 6:02:19 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2003-9-4 6:02:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I read the pre-war article and it sounded powerfully genuine. I have never met Cheif Wiggles nor Lt Smash but elements of what they include would be hard to fake. Realistically, how could we be smart enough to dream up a fake human shield and still have not "found" WMD nor set up a decent TV station.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-4 9:28:53 PM|| 2003-9-4 9:28:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I should have included a /sarcasm tag, I suppose.

Posted by Ernest Brown 2003-9-5 12:18:25 AM|| [saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2003-9-5 12:18:25 AM|| Front Page Top

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