[Vision2020] Fedayeen use children as shield

[Donovan Arnold]

Well put Bob, I agree

Donovan Arnold





>From: Bob Hoffmann <escape@alt-escape.com>
>To: vision2020 <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fedayeen use children as shield
>Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 22:00:00 -0800
>
>At 06:23 PM 4/1/2003 -0800, John Harrell wrote:
>>Sgt David Baird, who commands a Challenger 2 tank from C Squadron of the 
>>Royal Scots Dragoon Guards battle group, said that he had witnessed at 
>>least four or five children, aged between five and eight, being grabbed by 
>>the scruff of the neck and held by Iraqi fighters as they crossed a road 
>>in front of his tank.
>
>I remember an anecdote told by a timid nun to my fifth-grade class.  It was 
>about how a child in Vietnam would visit American soldiers every day and 
>give them a bag of rock candy.  One day the boy came with a bag, as usual, 
>but the bag exploded, killing himself and the soldiers.  "So whenever you 
>hear that our boys were doing bad things in Vietnam, remember the dangers 
>they faced."
>
>That anecdote left an impression with me for some years.  After I had 
>developed more critical thinking skills, I recalled the story and asked 
>myself, "Well, what were those American soldiers doing in Vietnam?  The 
>Vietnamese didn't send the boy to America with a bag of explosives, the 
>soldiers had to cross the ocean to get blown up."  I pondered what it meant 
>to use women and children to wage war against an occupying force.  (Iran 
>used human waves of children to repulse an Iraq that was being aided by the 
>U.S.)  This may speak some of the evil of the regime, but it also speaks to 
>the desperation of the situation.  Women doing reconnaissance for Iraqi 
>fighters?  Do they really need to be forced into that?  I'm sure many women 
>on this list, whether they love or hate George Bush, would do the same (or 
>openly pick up arms) if our country were invaded by a vastly superior 
>force.
>
>It has been stated on this list already:  This is a situation that our 
>government has entered voluntarily.  If the U.S. were reacting to some 
>actual military atrocity of Iraq, world opinion might swallow this bitter 
>pill more easily.  With a preemptive strike, we lose the moral high ground 
>with every civilian death, not as though we have any moral high ground when 
>Iraqi soldiers die in this patently illegal invasion.
>
>Bob Hoffmann
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