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This is unbelievable. The British government are nowhere near being firm ... |
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03-23-2007, 08:25 AM
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Iran nabs British sailors in Iraq waters - Yahoo! News
This is unbelievable. The British government are nowhere near being firm enough. In the days of Empire this would be a declaration of war.
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03-23-2007, 08:29 AM
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Country:  | You can bet if the Brits grabbed a bunch of Iranian Sailors, there would be protest, burnings of flags and riots in the streets. Iranians are throwing their weight around and getting away with it.
What a crock. | |
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03-23-2007, 09:08 AM
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Country: | Iran has no weight that's the worst part about it. The British government is so touchy, feely that it won't do anything about it. It's made an empty demand to the Iranian government, it will not follow anything up and it will be up to the Iranians to hand them over when they get their publicity.
In the Thatcher days, the British government would have demanded them back or there would have been a Royal Navy task force on its way. Good thing about Thatcher, she didn't screw around.
Only 40 years before Thatcher, anything like this happening would have resulted in British forces piling into Iran.
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03-23-2007, 09:18 AM
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Country: | You boys over better inflate your balls marc... I was amazed when I saw that. They should try their best to get your sailors back - then it's on. Iran needs a hurting.
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03-23-2007, 11:10 AM
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Country: | I reluctantly agree, mkloby. They need an ass whooping. And quick. It's the only thing these 4th century morons respect. The sword.
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03-23-2007, 11:20 AM
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| I am willing to bet the Captain was almost crying with frustration over the rules of engagement had was having to operate under. | |
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03-23-2007, 12:15 PM
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Country: | 15 sailors. Claim is that they were a boarding party checking a freighter suspected of carrying cars (to Iraq?). They were surrounded by Iranian navy boats, arrested and taken back to the Motherland. Likely this will be resolved peacefully, but the Brits should take a piece of their hide in return. Give them a 4hr ultimatum or the bombing begins.
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03-23-2007, 12:51 PM
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| Iran are definately cruisin' for a bruisin' - Lucky for them & unfortunately for us our governments weak as water!
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03-23-2007, 12:58 PM
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Country: | It's amazing that the Captain of the RN ship let it go/or had ROE that made him let it go. An officer letting his men get captured and stand by watching? Nah, that can't be.
Can it? | |
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03-23-2007, 02:08 PM
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03-23-2007, 04:32 PM
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Country: | BBC NEWS | UK | UK sailors captured at gunpoint
No indication of release on the BBC either. I agree with what has been said, in times past there would of been a task force on the way to blast the sh*t out of them, now it is just someone from the foreign ministry who asks nicely if we can have them back. Iran needs to be taught a lesson and taught it quickly and the only real way it seems is going to be with explosives and armour...
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03-23-2007, 04:54 PM
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03-23-2007, 05:18 PM
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03-23-2007, 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by pbfoot  Shades of the USS Pueblo | Hope "M.O.D" will not let this decay into a "Peublo like" fiasco.
Godspeed to their safe return.
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03-23-2007, 09:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Gnomey Iran needs to be taught a lesson and taught it quickly and the only real way it seems is going to be with explosives and armour... | Doesnt ur country have ship launched cruise missles Gnomey???? Ol' Blair needs to drop in some SAS and get some...
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