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2011-03-21 Africa North
Volunteers form human shield at Gadaffy's compound
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Posted by gorb 2011-03-21 03:48|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 A tactic Saddam tried.

I'm reminded of the quote,

'History repeats itself. The first time as tragedy. The second time as farce.'

Not that I think Iraq was a tragedy. Far from it. I think the Iraq war was the most important event shaping the 21st century to date.
Posted by phil_b 2011-03-21 05:52||   2011-03-21 05:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Using human shields is a war crime according to the Geneva Conventions; so is volunteering to be one. War criminals can be shot on sight, or kill in any military operations, since they are illegal combatants.
Posted by Shieldwolf 2011-03-21 06:07||   2011-03-21 06:07|| Front Page Top

#3 In Benghazi, human shields were not used when Gaddafi bombed it.

Posted by Bernardz 2011-03-21 07:03||   2011-03-21 07:03|| Front Page Top

#4 
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Posted by  Dribble2716 2011-03-21 08:08||   2011-03-21 08:08|| Front Page Top

#5 War is never the answer

But it's always the solution because at least one of the players is completely unreasonable. Because it usually works, until the last time.
Posted by gorb 2011-03-21 10:06||   2011-03-21 10:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Old news. They skedaddled as soon as they heard missiles were flying. Kadaffy too.
Posted by Oscar Spineck3066 2011-03-21 10:52||   2011-03-21 10:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Dribble HI!; That's much better in my opinion. You definitely write with strong opinions. You cover several thoughts. Some more things to chew on. TKY(my abbreviation for thank you).
Posted by Dale 2011-03-21 11:24||   2011-03-21 11:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Kadaffy is not hiding behind the 'human shields'. That is the oldest trick in the book; like putting all your 'bombs' on the left of the Stratego board and your flag up front on the right. My guess is Kadaffy is dressed as a woman and riding a camel out of the country with some many bags of cash it looks like a 4 hump camel.
Posted by airandee 2011-03-21 12:28||   2011-03-21 12:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Closed meeting at the UN today. Libya is the subject. IT will be interesting to see what Russia or China might do to bugger it up (to veto further action).
Posted by Dale 2011-03-21 13:20||   2011-03-21 13:20|| Front Page Top

#10 War is never the answer

That's because war is a series of questions - who gets to live? Who has power? Who gets their way? Do you want to do what we demand, or what? Your money or your life? What are you, some sort of coward? How much for your women? Where do I get mine? You gonna give us those mining rights? How about that oil, now?

You see? Questions.
Posted by Mitch H.  2011-03-21 15:23|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/  2011-03-21 15:23|| Front Page Top

#11 "War is never the answer"

Depends on the question.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-03-21 16:20||   2011-03-21 16:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Well lets see...

War ended slavery in the United States.

War ended the Nazi Fascist state and the holocaust.

War ended the Imperial Japanese expansion.

War kept the people of South Korea free.

War ended the Socialist expansion. (What would SE Asia look like without the Vietnam War - probably very different)

No I guess war isn't the answer....
Posted by CrazyFool 2011-03-21 16:25||   2011-03-21 16:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Headline over at Fox - Libya Uses Journalists as Shields.

So, is this a win-win situation? /sarc off
Posted by Procopiuis2k 2011-03-21 17:07||   2011-03-21 17:07|| Front Page Top

#14 Had a teacher friend in Western Alaska about 15 years ago. She retired and I lost track of her. Next thing I heard of her was a pic of her on the USS Clueless blog and how she went to Iraq as a human shield. The US Govt slapped a 10K fine on her, and she was facing losing her retirement house in Florida. Useful idiot. Lots of human shields went with idealism to protect hospitals, etc, but Sammy moved em to potential military targets. Lots of useful idiots willing to throw their lives away.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-03-21 21:06||   2011-03-21 21:06|| Front Page Top

#15 and the winners of the 2011 Darwin Award are ...
Posted by CincinnatusChili 2011-03-21 21:40||   2011-03-21 21:40|| Front Page Top

00:10 JosephMendiola
23:51 RandomJD
23:42 Thing From Snowy Mountain
23:39 Thing From Snowy Mountain
23:35 gorb
23:34 Fi
23:34 gorb
23:28 49 Pan
23:28 gorb
23:28 JosephMendiola
23:25 gorb
23:24 Knuckles Chack2746
23:23 Procopius2k
23:21 JosephMendiola
23:16 Procopius2k
23:15 Grunter
23:09 Thing From Snowy Mountain
22:56 SteveS
22:52 JosephMendiola
22:50 Knuckles Chack2746
22:45  Dribble2716
22:27 JosephMendiola
22:27 phil_b
22:12 JosephMendiola









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