William Saletan has written a concise piece on Iraq's use of human shields in Slate, putting my earlier posting on the matter to shame. Just to clarify, I was asking the question with respect to actually pushing civilians into an area between Iraqi and U.S. forces, as opposed to firing from civilian areas (Saletan, legitimately, makes no distinction, nor does international law).

However, it was this type of situation that CNN's Walter Rodgers was describing in a report yesterday, and about which a reporter asked Gen. Tommy Franks; both of which led to my posting.