But wouldn't it be interesting if the Greeks would send a unit of say 300 volunteers? Veterans of the Greek ETA teams in Afghanistan would be a very likely source.
Posted on 03/23/2007 4:30:15 AM PDT by MindBender26
Just saw in 7:00-7:30 segment of GMA.
Iranian navy siezed about a dozen UK sailors. Sailors were conducting routine shipping embargo inspection in northern end of Persian Gulf.
Sailors have been taken back to Iran
Can't find it anywhere else.
This time, I believe the intent is to get back some Iranian agents that they believe to be captured and held by the U.S.
This one has a different flavor, and more chance of becoming more than a small incident.
The ball is in their court, as I am sure the diplomatic moves have been made by the Brit's.. I am waiting for the hammer to drop on the refusal to participate in a prisoner exchange, as i don't think these Iranian agents exist...(at least alive and kickin)
We shall see......But any war fought with Iran will not be fought with ground troops, and we are quite capable of bouncing them back into the stone age with what we have in the gulf at the present time. We have been preparing for this engagement, and if Iran does not back down, we may well stop negotiating, and start implementing a war plan.
We shall see, but I do hope Iran yields to the power. If they don't, it could get real dicey with the Shia.
But wouldn't it be interesting if the Greeks would send a unit of say 300 volunteers? Veterans of the Greek ETA teams in Afghanistan would be a very likely source.
If the Brits would start first the US would of course assist. We would not be the trigger but the gunpowder so to speak allowing us to not be the bad guy for once.
I can think of a better place for him.
Iran's navy started more than a week of war games in the Gulf on Thursday using tactical submarines and small vessels carrying missile launchers, state television reported. The exercises are the latest in a series of maneuvers staged by Iran's military in the Gulf, where the United States has deployed a second aircraft carrier, a move widely seen as a warning to Tehran over its nuclear ambitions. State television said the war games staged by Iran's regular naval forces "showed their defensive power for protecting the Persian Gulf." It said the maneuvers would last until March 30...
The Romanians have a long and proud history of dealing with the jihadists. Going back to at least the end of the 1450s.
"McHale's Navy" could deal with those idiots.
Nothing to see here. Move along. Nothing will be done other than the Brits will pay ransom or make some kind of swap. Thanks to the librats on both sides of the pond we are now nutless. Just wave the white flag and hope they dont hurt us. Vomit!
Glenn Beck about to discuss this incident with experts on his radio show...
Oh look ... a Trent Affair with a nuclear power.
Bump.
The US definitely should tell them that all Iranian visas are on hold pending the release of the British soldiers, and on hearing what they have to say.
BTTT!
I just heard Walid Phares...
He just said that the US and the Brits should get together and get the Iranian population to rebel against Nutjob!
There is a problem with that......
As the host country of the U.N., we are bound by law to expedite visas for any member, even if we were at war with them, which is not yet the case but could be.
It is one of the problems a host country faces when we are forced to separate politics and war from the U.N. member states.
This is what likely has prompted the recent swaggering from NutJob.
he is beginning to lose his hold on public opinion in Iran, and is staging a confrontation to correct it.
Walid is correct that we need to get even more proactive with their internal affairs, but frankly, we don't know how much or what they are doing, and my guess is that we are engaged in doing everything we can.
I wonder if Tony Blair has nads of maggie Thatcher he tell Iran that smackdown is coming if these soldiers are not release what hell the Iranian soldiers are doing in IRAQ borders HELLO
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