The British sailors and marines being held in Iran are to be paraded on television – but the female sailor who was captured could be released “today or tomorrow.”
The British sailors were 1.7 nautical miles inside Iraqi waters, as this graph shows, yet the Iranians are still trying to sell the lie that the sailors were 0.269978402 nautical miles within their waters!
 
An handout graphic issued by the Britain’s Ministry of Defence on March 28, 2007, illustrates global positioning data that shows 15 British sailors and marines were well inside Iraqi waters when they were captured by Iran last week. The incident happened 1.7 nautical miles within Iraqi waters, Britain’s Deputy Chief of Defence Staff, Vice Admiral Charles Style, told a news conference. REUTERS/Ministry of Defence/Crown Copyright
Doesn’t it bring back memories of this:
The silence from the United Nations is deafening as is the silence from all other human rights watch organizations.
And the libs? Silent also.
I’m curious as to why they want to release the female? Cultural thing? I don’t think Iran has women serve in their military.
1- As I said in another thread recently, this is tit-for-tat for our detaining Iranians in Arbil, Iraq in January. The USA has not provided any evidence that these 5 Iranians were doing anything wrong, but yet, they remain detained with an unknown status.
Tofu, as usual, you hate the US. No wonder people in Ohio want to beat you up on sight.
I am absolutely incensed by some of the Iranian TV footage:
Don’t be fooled by the “apparent”friendly nature of the footage.
The female sailor is obviously stressed – smoking: and is being coerced – NOT EVIDENT IN THE HEAVILY EDITED TV FOOTAGE.
The British training when captured is to not do anything to controvene regulations, the UK or themselves but to be compliant/non-confrontational with their captors.
Iran has crossed a line right now.
Lets hope Americans support the return of the servicemen – remember who has been there since the beginning (pre-9/11) with no questions asked….
And I hope Americans realise the great sacrifices Britain has made too…
correction on the above: I am absolutely absolutely incensed!
4- As is par for your course, you sink to intellectually-void insults and offering nothing to the discussion.
m UK, you do have support. I would love nothing more to see a successful raid to free the Brits and to put Mahmood and a number of the urling mullahs in “Club Gitmo”.
5- “with no questions asked…”
Maybe that’s part of the problem. Not enough questions were asked prior to this Iraq quagmire occured, perhaps? Kinda would have been nice to have a post-invasion plan or something, ya know.
9, Tofu, you are a twisted pervert. That isn’t what m UK meant. Only freakazoids like you look for EVERY opportunity to bash the US.
7, Tofu, you bring noting to anything. You are just a pervert with a warped view of the world. You do nothing but find another reason to hate the US because we don’t bend over for your personal perversion.
Let’s stick to the topic and debate that.
12, Fine! This is an illegal act in violation of the Geneva Conventions and all accepted forms of International law. The Iranian regime should be branded as a rogue, outlaw regime and given 48 hours to release all the Brits without condition or exchange.
Iran has no excuse, and they have WMD with Korean missles to deliver it. Ample reason to invade and clean them up.
The sciense is in, the debate is over! This illegal act by Iran is an act of war.
Britain should give Iran 24 hrs to release the Marines and their equipment unharmed or face the consequences: a cruise missile right through the window of I’minaJihad’s office. If he is there at the time, problem solved. If not, the message will be received nonetheless.
Iran just insistes on pulling the lions tail till it eats them:mad::mad:
It is a viavle act of war, per UN Charter.
But, the UN charter isn’t really worth toilet paper.
Re 3:
This has NOTHING to do with tit-for-tat. I’ve seldom seen such moral relativism.
The US had probabe cause for the arrests, while Iran does NOT have probable cause as it has plainly been displayed that the British soldiers were within Iraqi waters through global positioning devices.
The Iranians will be tried, and if found innocent released. In previous cases, these arrests were turned over to Iraqi officials.
All you Hawks who are gnashing your teeth in anger and tearing at your clothes praying for war with Iran shouldd watch out…
The War in Iraq and Afghanistan have gone poorly, concerning keeping the peace with the natives…
I’m convinced that the American Military would perform just as poorly in Iran, if not worse, than it has in Iraq.
Sorry, but I think it’s pretty obvious we shouldn’t be starting any wars any time in the near future…
“I’m convinced that the American Military would perform just as poorly in Iran, if not worse, than it has in Iraq.
Sorry, but I think it’s pretty obvious we shouldn’t be starting any wars any time in the near future: “
I agree 100%.
The performance issue is due to lack of numbers. Colin powell had the right idea- use over whelming force. But we can’t, and here is why.
Bill Clinton gutted the military- he cut 800,000 military personal and their civilian support. That sort of damage in an all volunteer army can take years, even decades to mend. We should always have a standing volunteer army of 2-3 million.
And yes- we shouldn’t start any war in the near future- at least until we redeploy our troops in Japan, Europe and elsewhere to better take advantage of them.
Thank you for the dose of sanity, Ted.
Peejz, take note.
But, the UN charter isn’t really worth toilet paper.
Neither is the UN.
And chickens like SFL will continue to run around with their head cut off and crossing the road with a semi comming and SPLAT that chicken did,nt make it but the vulture is feasting:razz:
We do not have a large enough military in ground troops to fight the wars the PC way that the Dems love so much. However we do have the air forces necessary to fight the wars the way that we dealt with Germany and Japan during WWII. We also have cruise missiles as well as some other VERY sophisticated forms of Artillery. We could easily win a war in Iran. We’d simply have to do it in a VERY UN PC method. We would simply have to make a huge example of them and burn the country to the ground like we did Dresden during WWII. As a history geek, I’d HATE to see all of the historical sites inside of Iran destroyed, as I was with the ones in Sarajevo and Baghdad, but if that is what it takes to quash the continuing threat from a potentially WMD armed hostile Islamofascist regime, so be it.
For those who felt we shouldn’t have gone into Iraq, I have but one question. Is it better to strike an enemy who can inflict massive damage before or after he has struck you? Saddam was a threat not because he could or would be able to attack us directly, but because he was more than willing ot provide the necessary aid to the terrorists who would and still can. Iran’s ruling clan is the same way. It is not necessarily them that we need to fear, as much as the proxies that they will happily train, arm, and financially support in their efforts to attack us. Do you not understand the importance of the fact that they were paying Lebanese families to conceal rockets and launchers in their homes so that any retaliatory strike by Israel against Hezbollah would result in their Lebanese allies being killed and then used as props in a propaganda war?