[MindBender26]

Developing

[mewzilla]

I'm amazed they mentioned the story.

"Incident" reported in Gulf waterway-(US/British Military seized by Iranians)

[EternalHope]

NOT good...

[Steel Wolf]

Here we go again. Iran must have a real hard on for British sailors or something.

[MARKUSPRIME]

This is an act of war against the UK. Time for the US/UK to bomb these bastards to hell.

[DB]

Very stupid move if true.

[CatoRenasci]

It's getting real close to the time to finish the job the Greeks started at Marathon and solve the Persian problem once for all.... Since they don't believe in the Holocause, we can give them their own endliches entloesung.

[montag813]

Didn't Iran see what happened to Argentina? Don't mess with the UK.

[Salem]

'Ping!'

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AMERICA AT WAR
At Salem the Soldier's Homepage ~
Free Republic's News From the Long War
Islam, a Religion of Peace®? Some links...  by backhoe
Translated Pre-War IRAQ Documents  by jveritas
Mohammed, The Mad Poet Quoted....  by PsyOp
"PLAES DO NOT TOCH THE WAR"  by AnnaZ
One FReeper On The Line  by SNOWFLAKE
The Clash of Ideologies - A Review

"...It's time we recognized the nature of the conflict. It's total war and we are all involved. Nobody on our side is exempted because of age, gender, or handicap. The Islamofacists have stolen childhood from the world." [FReeper Retief]

"...That the totalitarian force pitted against freedom wears a religious makes this civil war among mankind all the more difficult to engage. Loving freedom as we do, it seems reprehensible to deliberate against a religion. But this is no ordinary religion as it demands absolute obedience of all to their religion at the cost of freedom itself." [FReeper Backtothestreets]

[BuffaloJack]

This is easy. When the Iranian President visits the UN, just grab him and give him a suite at Gitmo until they let the Brit sailors free. Ahmadinejad would understand hostage taking. He participated in these same acts during the Carter administration.

[joe fonebone]

I believe that the current regime in iran is falling apart. The only way to possibly keep the mullah's in power is to start a war. If it comes to that, i hope the special forces go in and take out the damn mullah's first, then destroy the ground forces with air power. That should be just enough to touch off the revolution there....

[noname07718]

What’s interesting is the recent arrival of the French Nuclear Carrier battle fleet to join up with our two battle carrier groups. I wonder how that will play out if there is shooting?

[RSmithOpt]

Nothing surprising to me with respect to Russia's recent 'turn' towards Iran's enrichment crap.

This is an act of desperation by the nut jobs running Iran.

The Doomsday ImMadInTheHead cannot deal with the thought that him getting the A-bomb to drop on Israel has the dude has 'snapped another strap'.

IMHO, I think Iran has already acquired a nuke from N. Korea and is now provoking the West and its allies to have an 'excuse' to pop the device west SW of Iraq.

Also, the Iraq oil industry is being ripped off daily by militias and corrupt government officials. This money has been being skimmed for a while now and it wouldn't surprise me one bit if some of the black market oil profits haven't found their way back to Iran.

Iran's economy is on the brink of collapse from what I've been told by a coworker who has family in Tehran.

[Red Badger]

Tick...tick...tick...tick....

[arthurus]

The deal will be they will give back the sailors if we give back the Iranian captives we got in Iraq plus the general that defected. We should then make a counteroffer. They give back the sailors by X-date or we will bomb the hell out of Iran. If they do notthen give the sailors back by the specified date we bomb the hell out of Iran on X-date+1. If they relent and return the sailors, we bomb the hell out of Iran on return-date+1.

[sargunner]

I am sure the British planners are carefully scrutinizing the response by the US for similar situations.

1. NK shoot down of EC-121 in '69
2. NK taking Pueblo
3. US embassy in Tehran
4. EP-3

Essentially just cower an grovel.

[tiredoflaundry]

What are you hearing across the pond????

[Rams82]

Something very important must have been on that ship that the British were searching!

[kidd]

Iran wants a fight.

Methinks they overestimate their chances.

[uptoolate]

Why are we watching GMA?

[mmichaels1970]

I wonder how they're going to bury this story. Outside of FR, I'm wondering how soon before the story just disappears. It's so sad that we let them get away with this stuff.