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2007-03-30 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran demands British apology over sailors
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Posted by Fred 2007-03-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Why is this so flipping important to Iran? Is it a diversion?
Posted by gorb 2007-03-30 00:35||   2007-03-30 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 "I'm sorry we are going to have to wipe you off this earth."
Posted by ed 2007-03-30 00:41||   2007-03-30 00:41|| Front Page Top

#3 The sort of pathologically manic egotism that drives the Persian mind would be hysterically funny if they were still herding camels out in the desert. The notion of these sanctimonious buffoons getting ahold of nuclear weapons is simply bone-chilling. You may as well give a tantrum prone five year-old a full auto Uzi with the safety off.

How is it that the civilized world cannot bring itself to openly ridicule the Iranian mullahs? Their duplicity, perfidy and treachery are so omnipresent and patently obvious as to be implicit in all their dealings. Why so much of the world accords these violent thugs the least respect or credibility is a total mystery.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-03-30 03:29||   2007-03-30 03:29|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't understand why Blair doesn't activate a rapid reaction fleet to atleast "head that way" slowly if need be? Is it against International Law to put a fleet to the high seas without first declaring war? Where's the mullah 'pucker factor increase' if the Ruskie's are providing intel that the Britt's docks and ports are calm and routine??
Posted by smn 2007-03-30 05:18||   2007-03-30 05:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Because they are mired down by pussies, just like us.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-03-30 06:02||   2007-03-30 06:02|| Front Page Top

#6 What bigjim-ky said.

We need an alliance with Sparta.
Posted by Excalibur 2007-03-30 08:52||   2007-03-30 08:52|| Front Page Top

#7 This is where "softly, softly" gets you.
Posted by Infidel Bob 2007-03-30 09:06||   2007-03-30 09:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Just take the piss-ant country and be done with boundary disputes or whose waters who is in. Is there not anyone with testicular fortitude in the West. Give war a chance.
Posted by JohnQC 2007-03-30 10:57||   2007-03-30 10:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Not heard: A demand the Iranians apologize for a variety of acts of war.
Posted by Excalibur 2007-03-30 11:20||   2007-03-30 11:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Where's NATO? Where's the EU? This should be a wake-up call for the United States, Britain, and any other sensible nation. The NATO alliance is totally one-sided - we're supposed to protect the rest of the members. The EU is worthless. It couldn't defend itself from two troops of Boy Scouts armed with Swiss Army knives. The world is a dangerous place. The EU and most western European members of NATO have already surrendered, and are just looking for an enemy to hand their weapons and their lives over to.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2007-03-30 12:53|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2007-03-30 12:53|| Front Page Top

#11 I think Great Britain would have to invoke the NATO Treaty obligation.
Posted by eLarson 2007-03-30 13:40|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2007-03-30 13:40|| Front Page Top

#12 Seize economic assets-an oil platform comes to mind. Make the coming "trade off" cost us and gain them nothing.
Posted by Jules 2007-03-30 17:05||   2007-03-30 17:05|| Front Page Top

#13 NATO fires up only on an attack on a signatories country, which is why NATO is in Afghanistan and why the German airforce was flying AWACS missions over the continental US in the days right after 9/11.
Posted by Shipman">Shipman  2007-03-30 17:48||   2007-03-30 17:48|| Front Page Top

#14 PC-ism has been a long time in the making, whereby everything is polarised, either on or off, as in the digital age we live in now; yet not 30 years ago, I was using a slide rule, to get approximate values and then work it it out on paper to get a true answer.

Instant answers on a key-pad+dogma, a la Bob/Iran/Chavez and every other shit hole of the world = everything we say is true. And our alleged powers/defenders believe them, and don't defend us. Sheesh.

It's either on or off, black or white, no grey areas. These mo-fos are not pushing it, they have pushed it way over the line. Kill.
Posted by rhodesiafever 2007-03-30 17:57||   2007-03-30 17:57|| Front Page Top

#15 Irant to Brits:

You are my surrender money, heel
Posted by Captain America 2007-03-30 20:00||   2007-03-30 20:00|| Front Page Top

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