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stevemcgarrett · Joined: 24 Mar 2006

Well, it looks like Ahmadinejihadabad is up to his old tricks again, just itching to pick a fight with the British and Americans in the Persian Gulf rather than scratching his ragged beard:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070323/ap_on_re_eu/british_seized_iran

So will this, too, pass as another tempest in a tea pot? Or do you think this time the Iranian government might hold out?

Is this just another attempt by the Revolutionary Navy to assert its claim to territorial waters (despite not having the balls to intercept the British sailors' frigate) or could this become Falklands, Part 2?

"Inquiring minds want to know."

thepeel · Joined: 08 Aug 2004

Octavius Hite · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:51 am Post subject:

Good for Iran, its about time, I doubt the RN's claim that they didn't violate Iran's water. The RN and USN both have long histories of violating Iran's territoral waters. I dare, no I double dare the "coalition of the willing" to attack Iran. That would be quite a show.

Leslie Cheswyck · Joined: 31 May 2003 Location: University of Western Chile

What, is your lover an Iranian naval officer? Lemme guess, his name is Sin Bad. Laughing

EFLtrainer · Joined: 04 May 2005

If they'd wanted to provoke somethng nasty they would have taken Americans. They chose their target carefully, I'd say.

Or, is this the next Tonkin?

NAVFC · Joined: 10 May 2006

Octavius Hite · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:16 pm Post subject:

How come I'm supposed to believe the US but automatically denounce Iran. I will say it again for those of you who are clearly blinded by the union jack or stars and stripes. Both the US and the UK have a history of violating Iran's territoral waters. Saddam used water as an excuse to start the Iran-Iraq war (which the US gave him weapons and other assistance to conduct). The US even violated the Iranians water and shot down a passenger jet, a clear violation of international aviation law and a war crime.

So, if the US and the UK have lost all their credibility, why should anyone believe them? Just because I disagree with the Iranians politically and religiously doesn't automatically make them liars.

Tjames426 · Joined: 06 Aug 2006

Guess you have not listened to the news lately. A high Iranian official with intimate knowledge of the Iranian Government "disappeared" in Turkey. He defected. It has been in the news that the Iranians would like to "kidnap" some American soldiers for an exchange.

The Iranians were looking for some Western hostages to trade.

Now they have their wish.

EFLtrainer · Joined: 04 May 2005

NAVFC, visit the Wizard of Oz, eh? First, if OH is American, the comment you highlighted can't be considered treasonous: the people taken were not American.

Second, stating your country os wrong is not treasonous. Supporting and helping the enemy or harming your own nation is treason.

However, I don't know OH, so who the hell knows? Regardless, you really need to get down that YBR.

gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

EFLtrainer · Joined: 04 May 2005

So, the old gopher, rather than the scum sucking pig we've come to know since the elections, is back?

Welcome back, boy. Can you keep it up, or is there too much scum in your veins?

1. Iran had no real reason to take those Brits. We can all acknowledge that.

2. Depending on the location of the ship, they may have had a technical right to, but no real reason. The borders are disputed and the Brits almost certainly were following the Iraqi's claims of th border, not the Iranians. Who knows? Got GPS?

So, this is politics and bullshit, no matter how you look at it.

Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

Oh Steve, just get on with it and start your rant how it's all the liberals fault. I suppose you'll drag out some Michelle Malkin column to prove yourself. Come on do it....I dare you!

stevemcgarrett · Joined: 24 Mar 2006

Octavius Maximus in Error:

Both ABC News and CNN International reported that the British were NOT in disputed Iranian waters but Iraqi waters at the time of the seizure. If you'd bothered to read the Yahoo article at the link you'd have known this.

But of course as a rabid leftist you gave the Iranians the benefit of the doubt first. What a surprise. Rolling Eyes

Bet the clueless contingent of EFLinTraining, Dr. Hite, and CheeseforBrainsDave would have been ENRAGED had the seizure been against Iranian vessels for interfering in a naval operation against smugglers which has been going on for nearly a decade.

And that, I'd say, was precisely what I predicted would be the reaction from these knee-jerk Pavlov foaming-at-the-mouth dogs.

By the way, this is not the first time the Iranians have violated international sea treaties: they did it before, also against the Royal Marines, in 2004.

Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

That's the best thing you've got..cheeseforbrains? Your pathetic Steve, I've told you over and over again I'm not from Milwaukee. You really need to go ask your university for a refund.

For all the name calling you do and then turn around and act totally disgusted with the fact people call you conservative, you should really have gotten a Oscar this year.