Iran in Sailors' 'Confession' Claim »
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The Iranian military has questioned 15 detained British soldiers and said they confessed to illegally entering the country's territorial waters.
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SantaM1 year, 5 months ago
What is Iran doing? I know that this administration is provoking... its been a neo-con wet dream for an all out war in the middle east justifying the militant eradication of islam's hold over the oil feilds... but iran? seriously? do they think they're impressing anybody? is this an attempt to boost national unity on the govts part? or are they really egging us on?
it looks to me like theyre ASKING for the US and Brittain to invade them. do they think it will awaken all the sleeping terror cells or call up some ally's to their side against the 'agressors?' it won't. it'll just wipe them off the face of the earth, and end in the west retaliating in a genocidal rage. they are toeing a dangerous line. they're about to get themselves and all their neighbors floored. and when we don't want to control the whole of the region we'll give it to Israel just to ****** them off....
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FSU92grad1 year, 5 months ago
Remember, this is what you and your liberal cronies wanted all along?
To solve this thing diplomatically....It's worked wonders in previous wars.
The problem is we're dealing with thugs who do not nor cannot deal with peace. They hate America and capitalism and want to force their religion and beliefs on us. Sound familiar, libs ? Yes, this is you whole rationale for us invading Iraq...We wanted to force democracy on these people who do not want it...LOL ! Who wouldn't want Democracy in a country where you have a guy like Ahmadinejad running things or Saddam Hussein...This is the same guy who claimed that the holocaust never happen...
Do you REALLY want to entertain the idea of diplocmacy with a guy who constantly doesn't play by the rules or are you libs going to continue feeling sorry for him and his country and send Barbara Walters over to interview this guy to project his "touchy-feely" side. He shouldn't get a microsecond of airtime...
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somecommonsense1 year, 5 months ago
who is siding with Iran, ease up with the rhetoric man, liberal this and liberal that...Iran is most likely commiting an act of aggression, I wasn't there fishing that day so I don't know where they were, I would like to believe the British and Us before I believe Iran, but we don't know, certainly Iran is making a provacative move here and it could lead to Iran's increased involvement in this conflict, not that they weren't involved already...I am not a liberal or an apologist for Iran, I will however say that none of this would be happening if we had not invaded Iraq and these types of events are going to continue to happen...for anyone to think a ridiculous 25,000 US troopos is going to change the situation in Iraq is absurd, this conflict has only room to get larger and more fragmented...this isn't black and white, it's very grey indeed...
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fretslinger581 year, 5 months ago
OK, I was just informed that is no longer the case. Thanks shehappy.
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blog20061 year, 5 months ago
let just remember that some iranian diplomats were arrested by our troops-and the iranians certainly claimed that it was in violation of international and iraqi law.
our own military has also been busy for month spreading the word that commandos were already making incursions into iran
so in this context,what happened is not very surprising
the brits will probably be released in exchange for the iranian diplomats still being held
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zaph221 year, 5 months ago
It reminds you of the Gulf of Tonkin? I imagine not a lot of the people here remember 1964 that well, but I can, now if it reminds you of that, where is the Maddox? Quite a difference between a destroyer and a couple rafts carrying only 15 soldiers isn't there, and where does the Ticonderoga come into this? And who fired any torpedoes? And where were was the detention part of Gulf of Tonkin. And one other that, that was the US and Viet Nam, the US isn't part of this, we may be asked to by the British, but as of now, we have nothing to do with it. Maybe it was because Iran knew the UN vote was coming up and wanted to influence it, of course we see what the UN decided so if that was the plan it failed. But back to the point, this reminds you of the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
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Reachport1 year, 5 months ago
This arrogance, displayed by the Iranians, led by their
maniacal leader, is an example of the growing audacity and
rudimentary nature of these people.
If your neighbor kidnapped your dog for stepping onto his
lawn and wouldn't return him to you, would you be angry ?
Then you can imagine the intense anger the British feel over
the abduction of their countrymen.
In light of this displayed mind set, it seems naive to think
that everything will fall into place if we leave Irag,
despite how wonderful an idea that seems, to leave those
idiots to their own miserable existance.
Still, no matter how long we stay in Iraq, as someone here
pointed out, it will never be safe for the people there for
us to leave, so, it makes sense for us to cut our loses
and to leave. If this sounds equivocal, it is, but it is
also realistic and true.
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zaph221 year, 5 months ago
Don't know, but we know what the Iranians will do now even if the Brits weren't actually in Iranian territory, but why is it you want to make this about the US so badly when it's not about us. Shouldn't your question have been "wonder what the Brits would do if...?
Or won't that work for you since that way you can't keep bashing America, which from what I've seen you look for any excuse to do.
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Melanika521 year, 5 months ago
Okay, so I'm no fan of Iran. But you don't see the arrogance and the prejudice in your statement. Iran is a sovereign nation whether you like it or not. If Iranians wandered too close to our waters, wouldn't we do the same. What makes them "audacious and rudimentary" in their actions, and us civilized. That's racist and assuming that because these people are Middle Easterners, whom you've been taught to not respect, they are not entitled to take the same actions we would take in similar circumstances, right or wrong. We have abducted several of their people who were actually invited by Iraqis to be there. Did you see anything wrong with that? Of course not. You don't like Iranians so therefore anything they do will be wrong to you. But don't pretend it's right. Until they've proven to have done something wrong, and we know the facts, we really don't have a right to judge.
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1stMarDiv1 year, 5 months ago
You are correct!
I have witnessed many times how WE Americans hold a double standard! Its ok for us but not for them thinking. You make very good comments here. Lets put this into other terms so others may be able to relate to it better, what if a Russian Sub were found to be in our territorial waters during the cold war? Iran did what any soverign country would do, especially with the situation of the Nuclear Plant. England has given Iran a political tool to use against them. Iran performed a normal function and will probably return the British military men with a public apology given by England. This could not have played out any better for them. Did they actually torture the British? America does this and has made it public record! Why should we think little of Iran if they do what we have condoned as a nation!? Only arrogance would cause us to make statments against vile acts of torture! The word is hypocrisy.
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zaph221 year, 5 months ago
Just wondering something here, you said we have no right to judge Iran, yet many of the of the people here have gone to a story about Poland thinking of banning information about homosexuality from being taught in schools there. And most of the posts see to think the rest of the world should judge that and tell them the shouldn't do that, and Poland is being blasted for being such a backward country, for being so blinded by the Catholic Church, so is it ok to judge Poland like that, since as you say here, that is THEIR country. But many from the left appear to think on that subject it's fine to tell another country what they should be doing???
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ningyo1 year, 5 months ago
just another probe from from the lunatic iranian fanatics--this should be dealt with harshly and decisively--like one cruise missle into a military base every 10 mins till these troops are released--then just go ahead and mak every 2 minutes--oops..times up--its what these people understand--and to them we ARE a paper tiger and more and more i fear they are right--this apparent weakness will only enbolden the iranian mullahs and their minions everywhere
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amazed1 year, 5 months ago
Walden, are you really a US citizen? I ask because, although you claim you are and proclaim how loyal and patriotic you are, no matter what the situation, your fist response is that America must be wrong and the middle easterner must be right. This is not even the US involved here, now, yet you're slamming us, and, by your snide remarks you are implying that the idea that Iranians might torture prisoners is ridiculous, yet you take on faith that the US is doing so in Gitmo and around the world.
If you're not a US citizen, that's fine. If you are, you might want to try and cut your own country some slack -- or atleast give it the benefit of the doubt now and then.
Iran, Iraq and most of the rest of the middle east are really not particularly known for their humane treatment of prisioners -- whether of war, criminals or ones that they grabbed just because.
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