Assuming there ever will be any revenge. Usually this statement is merely a cover for political cowardice. Some 30 years later will still have taken NO action at all about the Iranian Hostage Crises.
Sorry, hope I don't break the thread. Gotta run and thought you guys may use some of this (Send Iran posts to Harry Reid and Pelosi):
Iran: Swap Sailors For Our Jailed Spies
http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/tm_headline=iran--swap-sailors-for-our-jailed-spies%26method=full%26objectid=18805338%26siteid=62484-name_page.html
(This sounds like admission of Iran's interference in Iraq... whine to the UN for blockade or AF for refineries, ports, nuclear facilities... I'm for the latter)
UK media: Iran may use sailors as
bargaining chip
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3380401,00.html
Iran: British sailors 'bargaining chips'
(Sounds familiar?)
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173879162063&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Exclusive: Embassies in Teheran prepare escape plans
(Tis true, and this was before the snatching of sailors; And after a public statement they would snatch Westerners... premeditated, yes)
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173879153851&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Iran 'to try Britons for espionage'
(After the interrogation that produced confessions huh?
Where's the NYT's, Time Mag and their ilk to slam their techniques? Crickets. No huge marches or art? Nope.)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1563877.ece
Iran: 'Determined to keep Britons'
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3380593,00.html
Intelligence chiefs told of Iran's reprisal threat
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/25/wiran125.xml
(Oh, brother)
****Oh crap... Breaking News!!! US Holds Prisoners linked to Iran
(Yeah... so... good) How many you ask? 300. They really didn't like that movie.)
http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/03/us_holds_300_prisoners_linked.php
Iran To Violate The Geneva Convention
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/009497.php
(Okay pool, how long until a moonbat writes just desserts for Abu Ghraib?)
Blair convenes Cobra team
as crisis in Iran escalates
http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=462812007
(Now we're talking)
Keep up the pressure (Margaret's call for sailors safe return falls on deaf ears in Iran)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article1563711.ece
Iranians blame UK for all that goes awry
(Is it our week off? Oh, I forgot... WE are the ones that got them into this. So it's Israel's week off... I'm sure they'll find a way to weave them in though)
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329757399-119093,00.html
We must fight terror the American way
(Mmmkay... thanks?)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/03/25/do2504.xml
Iran raises the hostage stakes
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1563919.ece
Now the good news:
Key Elements of U.N. Resolution on Iran
The U.N. Security Council imposed new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, expanding on sanctions approved in December. The key points of the two measures: /snip/ A call on all nations ''to exercise vigilance and restraint'' in supplying tanks, combat aircraft and other heavy weapons to Iran. An asset freeze on 15 individuals and 13 organizations and companies.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2979002
(Ummm... let's see... exercise vigilance and restraint... okay... asset freeze on 15 people and 13 organizations... How many folks in Iran and how many terror supporters?... Nevermind, forget I posted this)
Oh boy... check this out:
New UN Human Rights Body
Comes Under Fire (from who you ask... wait for it...)
On the heels of a well-received report on Darfur by the newly revamped UN Human Rights Council, the body is in danger of having its power stripped away. The EU says, give the council more time. Cuba is leading a bid by a number of countries to strip the Human Rights Council of its power to investigate and condemn violations of human rights, a move some activists warn could jeopardize the entire UN's credibility. (Yep, world ending)
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2397824,00.html
Here we go... the WaPo... or Al Jazeera warning system:
Terror Database Has Quadrupled In Four Years
(BTW dumbass, it's good; It means we know where more of them are)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/24/AR2007032400944_pf.html
Tropical Fish With Your Pork?
(Or as Hewitt called it, Kung Pao)
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0307/3278.html
You've got to see this NY Times Magazine Lie:
Navy disputes war story told by former sailor
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/03/navy_timesmagazine_veteranrape_070322w/
Anger Is All The Rage
(Amen George Will)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/23/AR2007032301589.html
Just to prove Will's correct above... behold:
Bush’s failed Machiavelli
messes up big time
by, wait for it... Andrew Sullivan
(Lilek's will have a ball with this one)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article1563268.ece
Putin writes. He's real slick... one day seemingly against Iran (ever so slightly), now a column... what can't he do?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article1563806.ece
N.Y. Police Spied Broadly
Before G.O.P. Convention
(And? I was there, i'm glad they did... It's NYC, we've been hit and it was insane. Dwyer... go get a bottle)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/nyregion/25infiltrate.html
Creeping Sharia
The dangers of tolerance
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Corbella_Licia/2007/03/25/3828492-sun.html
Calling it murder is absurd! (Preach Bob!)
On Nov. 19, 2005, United States Marines killed 24 civilians in an Iraqi town called Haditha. The dead included men, women and children. This past December, four Marines were charged with murder. But was it murder? Let's examine the events that led up to that terrible day.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/03/calling_it_murder_is_absurd.html
County health chief: Fly illegals back home
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/311840,CST-NWS-simon25.article
Respect or Disrespect?: Bill serves only to harass
women about legal abortions
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/perspectives/article/0,1406,KNS_2797_5437887,00.html
(Above: Ignorance... writ large)
Respect or disrespect?: Death certificate
would acknowledge end of life
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/perspectives/article/0,1406,KNS_2797_5437886,00.html
Euthanasia Alert in Sheep's Clothing:
Brave old world - how the elderly
are seizing America
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329757342-119093,00.html
(I love Britain, but maybe they can concentrate on the effects of their socialist healthcare on the elderly instead of minding our business... maybe it's guilt or 'be like us so we can't feel so bad')
This had better be a lie:
Contractor: City Filled Potholes
With 9/11 Remains
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_083223400.html
Kroger stores reopen
after widespread computer glitch
Snip:
All Kroger stores in Greater Cincinnati were closed for several hours Friday night and into this morning because of a computer glitch related to the nationwide pet-food recall. But all are now open for business. The glitch affected more than 1,000 stores from Detroit to Atlanta... Affected stores were located in Atlanta, Columbus, Detroit, Dayton, Indianapolis, Memphis and Little Rock...
(If this isn't an Onion headline, I don't know what is. Let me guess, they couldn't scan pork.)
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070324/NEWS01/303240014
Apple Cult Becoming a Religion
(Oh, so if i'm in the church of global warming I can't be a member of the congregation of Apple? It must be sad to make up religion for lack thereof.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/24/technology/24online.html?em&ex=1174881600&en=d968b14eadd70d3c&ei=5087%0A
Case in point... the religion's spreading. Oh no...
(Hmmm... Norway, Canada, Denmark. Well, gotta get away from the Islamists some kinda way):
Riches await as Earth's icy north melts (So GW is good?)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070324/ap_on_sc/arctic_bonanza;_ylt=AlhS.AVjMulaAveS0dxsSBus0NUE
Case in point: Canada
What's missing in this article?
Uneasy rider raises stink
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2007/03/24/3820889-sun.html
Gay cops told not to sway hips
(That's funny, I don't care who you are, for heteros)
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,9294,2-10-1462_2087945,00.html
Speaking of which... you'll like this:
Jimmy Carter Offers To Mediate British/Iranian Hostage Crisis
http://www.thenoseonyourface.com/
Oh boy... libs can't wait:
Iran crisis grows:
http://www.atlargely.com/2007/03/iran_here_we_go.html
Guess OpFor was right in the last paragraph:
If there’s one thing Iran knows how to do, its take hostages. However, the world’s a different place than it was in 1979 –and we have 130,000 troops parked next door. These days, the capture of troops-as-hostages is usually a casus belli (see Israel last summer with the initiation of a hot war with Hamas and Hizballah.)
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Despite their domestic wobbly-ness, I expect the Brits to play hardball on this. We should play hardball too.
I also expect the anti-war crowd to forward the following premises: (1) the captured sailors were on a secret mission to attack Iran, which was only acting in self-defense when it graciously subdued them. (2) We should just do a hostage trade with the Iranians, trading captured Iranians in Iraq back to the Islamic republic.
http://op-for.com/2007/03/britain_knew_about_the_323_kid.html
Oh, pass this on to Teddy, Kerry and the dems:
Hmong of Laos need Patriot Act waiver
There are a number of credible reports that the 2001 Patriot Act's broad definition of a "terrorist group" is preventing thousands of Hmong refugees from being granted asylum in the United States, despite the fact that companion legislation passed the same year sought to make it easier for our allies in the Vietnam War to migrate here. Many of the Hmong of Laos are still fighting and on the run from communist enemies. Others are just now surrendering, more than 30 years after Democrats in the US Congress cut off funds to them in 1975.
http://www.redstate.com/
Things to remember re: Iran:
2004 8 British sailors and their craft were seized by the Iranians
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3828377.stm
Hmmm... interesting comment (I know, the French):
You should know that the French nuclear carrier Charles de Gaulle and its task force had rendezvoused with the USS John C. Stennis and it’s task force in the Arabian Sea Wednesday for joint missions in the global war on terror. Its arrival raises to four the number of Western aircraft carriers cruising within striking distance of Iran, including the USS Eisenhower and USS Boxer. The Boxer led group is a Expeditionary Strike Group with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit on board… The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operation Capable), or MEU(SOC), is designed to be the first on-scene in the event of crisis. It takes more than 2,100 men and women to form the 26th MEU (SOC) team.
The Charles de Gaulle is accompanied by French Task Force 473, which consists of five warships: the FNS Cassard guided missile destroyer, the FNS Tourville anti-submarine frigate, the FNS Dupleix destroyer adapted for escorting oil tankers and the FNS Marne, a command and supply vessel. Commander of the French task force is Rear Adm. Xavier Magne. Commander of the American flotilla is Rear Adm. Kevin Quinn.
A lot of hardware sailing there...
"The U.S. Government, by Executive Orders issued by the President as well as by Congressional legislation, prohibits most trade with Iran. Some sanctions were imposed on Iran because Tehran is a state sponsor of terrorism, others because of the nuclear proliferation issues, and still more for human rights violations, including infringement of religious freedom. The commercial relations that do exists between the two countries consist mainly of Iranian purchases of food and medical products and U.S. imports of carpets and food. Some sanctions were temporarily waived in the wake of the devastating Bam earthquake of December 2003. U.S. officials and relief workers actively assisted in relief and reconstruction efforts."
We froze billions of dollars of Iranian assets in the US. We don't have diplomatic relations with them. Here is a good overview on specific things the US has done vis-a-vis its relations with Iran since the hostage crisis. To say nothing has been done is simply not true.