Iran makes its hostage demands

AP ^

[UKrepublican]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Iran's foreign minister says Britain must admit that its 15 sailors and marines entered Iranian waters for the standoff to be resolved.

[Chode]

ding, ding, ding... we have a winner!!!

[justa-hairyape]

The Mullahs blinked, eventually. But then the Iranian Mullahs gained the upper hand in Lebanon through their Hezbollah proxies.

[justa-hairyape]

Thanks for the correction concerning the Iranian Hostage rescue attempt. I was just running out of foggy neuron memory there.

[PetroniusMaximus]

"Take a look at this clip, if you haven't seen it."

Never have I seen so much truth come out of one journalist's mouth.

He gets it.

[Riley]

UK to Iran: NUTS

Brings to mind the comical reaction to McAuliffe's message, in the old movie Battle of the Bulge:

"Noots? Was ist 'noots'?"

[JerseyDvl]

If they really play this game with Iran, Achmadinejad will think he's got a brass pair.
There is no telling what he will do after that.
I keep asking myself what we would do in this same situation and I fear the Libs would dominate the discussion via the MSM and neuter us.

[TexasGunLover]

Brings to mind the comical reaction to McAuliffe's message, in the old movie Battle of the Bulge:

Precisely my dear Watson... you've nailed it.

[Seadog Bytes]

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      "...Release them unharmed, and we'll let you live."

[prairiebreeze]

ping post 33

[conserv8ive1]

Just a suggestion

http://www.lonelantern.org/images/1004_bush_finger_318x254.jpg

[GOP_1900AD]

I'd have liked that even better. Either way, we were a paper tiger.

[Windcatcher]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1434540.ece

See what happens when people open their big mouths? Talk about giving comfort to the enemy...

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

ok blair, they're playing chess and have just put you into check..your move..

Time to sacrifice a Knight. The skipper of the boat.
Iran's move. Will they take the Knight or will they move to further strengthen their attack?

A chess game indeed.

[Peach]

I'd forgotten she was a mother. Horrific. But in a way, I think it may be a good thing that Iran has overstepped.

I was told by someone that the BBC had been down playing this entire story; there's no doing that now.

[popdonnelly]

Iran will have to be humiliated. It's the only thing these people understand.

[Shortstop7]

I read some of the comments on the BBC. It was sad and shocking to think some people think so little of their own country.

And the headlines and phrasing of questions of the "reporters" at the BBC certainly show a clear bias.

Tis sad.

[popdonnelly]

Ahmadinejad and the mullahs have to go.

[FreedomNeocon]

Ok... so I'm a Star Trek nerd... and this reminds me a particular episode.

Picard (Patrick Stewart) is taken as a hostage of the Cardasians. He is held against his will, and subjected to a variety of non-lethal 'coercion' methods.

At the end his is given a choice.

He is told to look at 5 spotlights shining on him. His interrogator asks him "how many lights do you see?"

Picard responds "I see five lights"

His captor shocks him with an electrical charge, and says "there are four lights"

His captor takes a breath and once again asks "How many lights do you see?"

Picard, at first looks a bit puzzled, and then resolutely says "There are five lights"

Once again he is shocked this time with five times the voltage and nearly passes out.

His captor then informs him, that he is willing to let him go... if only he tells him that he sees four lights.

Once again the captor asks Picard "How many lights do you see?"

I won't spoil the ending, but regardless, its all a power play. A way to have your opponent tacitly submit and willingly distrust yourself and your own facts, and bow to their 'superiority'.

It must not be allowed to work.

[tina07]

Laura's face says it all too.

[JasonC]

These days they only take oil maven money to attack Americans, verbally. They are afraid of unarmed hooligans in their own streets, let alone entire nations of fanatics seeking nuclear weapons.