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 would be a perfect opportunity to strike Iran without involving either Israel or the USA. The NATO could do it.
Maybe since Iran has been murdering so many innocents with their terror network; maybe they need to be dealt with like Hiroshima was? I know it's horrible but how many more will be murdered if Iran gets their nuke and starts world war three? How about a bunch of small ones to wipe out their military and govenment totally and be done with it.
There would be some kind of time limit. If it goes beyond that the situation would become much worse. Don't know if it is 24 hours or 72, but things have to move right along or an assumption will have to be made in London.
Great point. I completely forgot about the Iranian agents that have "vanished". That does make this somewhat dicier - especially if those agents have assumed room temperature.
I...LIKE it!!! Excellent suggestion.
So true. Well said, both of you.
If I told you I'd have to kill you.
"Do not insult the French Navy or the mighty warship Clemenceau, m'sieur, or you may suffer the consequences and become the target of a well-thrown bucket of rusty metal chips!."
I've seen 30 year old tramp steamers with less rust. How could the French neglect a main line ship like that.
Good to see you here. Miss seeing your updates on the Islamic forums.
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"That was the UK of 25 years past. They will not respond other than with talk."
Don't count on it. In the last 10 years alone we have moved from talking to shooting in:
Sierra Leonne,
Afghanistan,
Bosnia,
Kosovo,
Iraq
+ 1 or 2 other incidents in Africa that don't get so much press attention. That makes us, with the United States, the most trigger happy nation on the planet at the moment. The Iranians are making a mistake and are foolish if they think there is a line we wont cross.
They are pretty much the same as they were a couple centuries ago. The new social experiment is just a fresh coat of paint. The question is who will nuke Iran first.
It had been decommissioned by then, but I've seen pics of it with aircraft still aboard with the ship sporting the "secret French Navy brown camoflage."
When the French tried to move the *Clambucket* to India for scrapping, Egypt refused passage through the Suez Canal on grounds that the ship was a hazard to navigation, [dripping asbestos insulation] which, being a nuclear-powered boat, makes the deteriorated condition even more deplorable.
We have been fighting a war for a long time with Iran.
Hey! Let's send the Ticonderoga-class cruiser U.S.S. Vincennes back to the area!
Though there are more modern cruisers with better vertical-launch missile systems, a return of the ol' RoboCruiser would indeed send the Iranians a message.
Russia is mad at Iran. Now they are getting the Brits upset. It will not take much . . .
It is very stupid for Iran to go after British sailors because Tony Blair isn't very popular within his own party and this could only help Blair politically.
Time to find out if our Navy can survive an onslaught of sunburns and silkworms fired at a short distance in narrow straights or if the Iranians can survive a stealth fighter attack along their batteries on the shore.
CNN has it now.
Russia did the right thing in trying to go via the letter of the law because when they broke off from Iran it would be seen as Russia abiding by the UN rather than taking orders from America. It also leaves Iran no allies because they burned their bridges.
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