VOLUNTARY HUMAN SHIELDS – THE NEW PACIFISM?

A group of 50 Western anti-war protesters has been granted visas to enter Iraq (they’re currently in Turkey, travelling by land convoy) where they plan to take up positions in Baghdad and other civilian areas of Iraq as voluntary human shields to discourage the coming attack by the U.S. ( Reuters)
Not surprisingly, Bush has accused them of ‘playing into the hands of Saddam’, though so far neither he nor any of his mouthpieces has called them traitors. But I’ll bet we haven’t heard the last of this by a mile. Wait for the rhetoric, possibly from both sides. I wish I had the courage of this small Ghandiesque band.

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