Remember those nice, idealistic young people who went to Iraq to be "human shields" (or "war tourists" as
Salam so incisively called them) to protect the peace-loving Iraqi state from Yanqui imperialist aggression, and get put up in
5-star luxury for their trouble? Well, most of them just
turned tail and fled when they realised that the Iraqi government wasn't so nice and was going to station them near military facilities rather than hospitals full of big-eyed orphans and such. Still, one could argue that they've managed to scam a holiday for free and get away with their lives; meanwhile, two have elected to stay behind, perhaps in the hope of winning a Darwin Award.)
(Perhaps they should send the local Spartacists/lunatic-fringe Marx/Maoists to replace them? They'd get a chance to selflessly protect the people's liberation government of Iraq from the capitalist imperialist running-dog aggressors, and the places they came from would get a bit more chlorine in their gene pools.)
Now here's a radical idea -- Dr. Helen Caldicott, the anti-nuclear activist, has called for the Pope to act as a human shield for the people of Iraq!
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