I wonder if Iran would even let them in the country. Wouldn’t this be the perfect way for us to sneak in CIA agents?
The Human Shield Movement has announced it reached its 10,000th pledge member. The lucky guy to sign on as a Human Shield Volunteer number ten thousand is Steven Morris from Birmingham. Morris has pledged to use his body as a “human shield” against an “attack on Iran” from “neo-con” President Bush.
Volunteers from 22 countries not from Iran have pledged to travel to the Middle Eastern country at a moment’s notice to place their “human shields” or in simpler terms, their bodies in front of civilian infrastructure in Iran in order to “prevent what they believe would be a catastrophic and unjustified attack” from the “warmonger” President Bush.
While we believe if there were to be such an attack it would be catastrophic, especially for the Human Shields, we’re not so sure it would be unjustified. We wondered if each of the Shields will be assigned large bold numbers for identification purposes if their worst case scenario is confirmed. We suggest each Human Shield also receive a form to fill out for future Honorary Darwin Awards.
Would we even telegraph our move that far in advance to get the whole 10,000 there in time?
posted May 12, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Is it possible to notify Dick Cheney when the last human shield is in place? Perhaps we can start a list of 10,000 Americans — this would be our reponsibility — who will pay these moron’s way to Iran. What a great opportunity to see our tax dollars at work. All kidding aside, we have fought at least three wars — Korea, Vietnam, and now Iraq — while allowing third-party nations to strengthen our enemies. Sooner ot later we need to re-learn how to fight a war, and that would include hammering every nation contributing to the deaths of American military personnel. May as well start with Iran, a very vulnerable nation. (Pssst, here’s a clue…Iran imports about 80% of its gasoline through a single port.) A few well-placed cruise missiles and Iran would be brought to its knees. Oh for the good old days.
posted May 12, 2008 at 10:11 pm
If we decide to nuke Iran, 10,000 more corpses aren’t going to matter very much.
It’s not like any of them would be loss anyway.
posted May 12, 2008 at 10:13 pm
heh, that works so very well, it’s been completely effective in stopping every war so far!
posted May 13, 2008 at 8:29 am
A few well-placed cruise missiles and Iran would be brought to its knees. Oh for the good old days.
Yes – oh for the good old days – when good white Americans ruled the world and those savage brown people knew their place.
posted May 13, 2008 at 9:48 am
Well-intentioned folk (with some exceptions) no doubt. But their choices are more likely to lead to a nuclear arms race in the Middle East that could bring on WWIII.
What Hillary Clinton said in the Pennsylvania debate, “We could obliterate Iran” was a horrible thing to say, but it was also correct. If Iran thinks that it can attack any of its neighbors with nuclear weapons, then Iran’s leaders need to know that their country faces the prospect of annihilation if it dares such a thing. People who think they are helping by volunteering to be human shields need to think again.
posted May 13, 2008 at 11:20 am
meh,
Yes – oh for the good old days – when good white Americans ruled the world and those savage brown people knew their place.
Last I looked, Iranians/Persians were Caucasians, part of the original Aryans, in fact. Hard to paint Aryans as “savage brown people”, I would think.
“When facts are lacking, play the SavageBrownPeople card…”
posted May 13, 2008 at 1:26 pm
It seems to me that some of the Iranian leadership may believe it could do the unthinkable without suffering unthinkable consequences.
It is very important to disabuse them of that notion. Since I don’t notice these prospective human shields going to Israel to protect Israelis and Palestinians alike, I think some of the Iranian leadership assumes that they will be exempt from consequences.
posted May 13, 2008 at 3:09 pm
It seems the powers that be can’t tell the difference between Iran and Iraq. You expect that they would know that Iranians are part of the Aryans who are the original Caucasians?
What they know is what they see.
posted May 13, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Ha ha, civilians showing concern for the citizens on another country! Oh, my sides!
Disregarding the fact that this is clearly 95% symbolic, everyone knows the RIGHT way to “take action” against the killing of foreign civilians is to hammer away on your keyboard.
I mean, didn’t they get the memo that “never again” is just a catchphrase?
posted May 13, 2008 at 6:48 pm
“Last I looked, Iranians/Persians were Caucasians, part of the original Aryans, in fact. Hard to paint Aryans as “savage brown people”.”
Caucasian actually refers to a body structure, not a skin tone. East Indians are also caucasians. “Aryan” is an ancient ethnicity, and while not extremely dark-skinned, most of them would have not have passed for white. They certainly weren’t blue-eyed and blond.
Oops!
posted May 14, 2008 at 12:48 am
“They certainly weren’t blue-eyed and blond.”
Neither am I but look, Caucasian! Shocking!
posted May 14, 2008 at 1:10 am
It would certainly be fun to announce our intention to attack a place (Somalia comes to mind), send the human shields in at government expense, and then procrastinate on attacking. We could even provide some helpful suggestions on where to place the human shields and perhaps reward their new host country for keeping them there!
posted May 14, 2008 at 1:18 am
How about we announce that we are going to bomb Somalia and then when they are there tell them that we changed our mind and we plan to bomb Iran just to mess with them.
posted May 15, 2008 at 4:14 am
how about we load the cannons up with warmongering conservatives first? tie them to our missiles wearing t-shirts that say “this one’s for my boy-king bush”… maybe drop warmongering conservatives holding their propaganda leaflets over iran? without parachutes, of course.
that would be fun.