Caption this:
You put your right hand in
You put your right hand out
You put your right hand in
And you shake it all about...
Posted on 04/04/2007 9:58:35 AM PDT by IrishMike
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran on Wednesday freed the 15 detained British sailors and marines in what President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called an Easter gift to the British people. Prime Minister Tony Blair said he bore "no ill will" toward the Iranian people. Iranian state television said the 14 men and one woman, who were seized while on patrol in the northern Persian gulf on March 23, would leave Iran on Thursday. An Iranian official in London said they would be handed over to British diplomats in Tehran.
Ahmadinejad's surprise announcement came at a news conference shortly after he pinned a medal on the chest of the Iranian coast guard commander who intercepted the sailors and marines.
"I'm glad that our 15 service personnel have been released and I know their release will come as a relief not just to them but to their families," Blair said outside his No. 10 Downing St. office. "Throughout, we have taken a measured approach, firm but calm, not negotiating but not confronting, either."
Blair added, "To the Iranian people I would simply say this: We bear you no ill will."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
It’s already linked up on DrudgeReport.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8O9UJP80&show_article=1
You might be right. Blair had been talking about moving on to the next phase, or some such terminology.
they posted exactly that at the DU..
“Nancy Pelosi says Israel is ready for peace talks with Syria; Israel says “wait a minute; that was not our message to Syria; the message was WHEN Syria stops supporting Hezbollah and Hamas we are ready to talk; not before then.”
Miss Syria is too stupid to understand the difference.
“President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called an Easter gift to the British people.”
What a joke that statement is, if true. He would normally call people who celebrate Easter infidels.
“Fight against those who believe in neither Allah, nor the Last Day, nor forbid what Allah and His Apostle have forbidden, and who do not embrace the true religion among the people of the book (i.e. Jews and Christians), until they willingly pay the alms levy, and are utterly subdued.” (Koran 9/29)
miss syria is used to politics in the U.S. where the dems decide what the rep said and the MSM follows their lead..now that she’s international, it doesn’t quite work that way..
I believe my post came before all of this. I am taking credit.
I am great. Oh kneel before me you peasants and do away with your capitalistic shackles and behold our new egalitarian society where we are all equal. Well at least y’all are all equal. I fly in G5’s. :)
I’ll bet the two U.S. carrier battle groups had nothing to do with it.
“...in what President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called an Easter gift to the British people.”
Oh, how magnanimous of the colossal prick!
Idiots like Rosie O’Donuts will swoon over him.
No matter what, this 'incident' will not help. The Iron Lady must be shaking her head.
Nope. They will be prominently displayed on every TV station and newspaper in the middle east and elsewhere to show the mullahs have embarrassed the infidel Brits.
These are “Marines!?!?!?
15 for 1 is not that bad of a deal. We will see what the British Sailors have to say about their 'confessions'. I think the Iranian Mahdi Wannabe wanted War and when he could not get it, the hostages were released. This does not mean he wont eventually get war, it means that war will happen on our time frame and probably not during a Full Moon.
“Tea drinking surrender monkeys?”
Woah there. I think we need to settle down with the Brittish bashing. I think there’s a little bit of pot calling the kettle black there considering the Brits didn’t take 444 days to get their men and women back.
Actually I was thinking of the sound made by warplanes breaking the sound barrier and all headed in one direction...from many. Also there is a very distinctive noise when a certain decision is made. That little ~snick~ when the safeties come off. I seriously doubt there was a bribe involved. AHMANUTJOB just got a taste of how hungry we are for an excuse. ANY excuse ... to pull the trigger.
No uniforms. The Nutjob must have taken them as souvenirs.
They no longer have the fortitude to simply force Ahmanutjob to back down, the MSM and liberals have taken care of that, and in fact our obvious impotence is what spurred the Iranians on in the first place, IMO.
You put your right hand in
You put your right hand out
You put your right hand in
And you shake it all about...
Don't you know, Bush just can't get along with people like Pelosi does. (and Madeline Albright)
Cheers!
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