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Iran/Prisoner Crisis; Shocked this isn;t already on here...
Topic Started: Apr 2 2007, 12:26 AM (369 Views)
Jivdom
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6515995.stm

We don't have a leg to stand on really... Do we?
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The Ruescher Empire
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The whole situation wouldnt be as bad if the british sailors coulda kept their damn mouth shut about where they were (such as not saying they were in Iran waters)
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well what do we do?

We could tell the UN to act but it's lame.
We could tell the UN security council to act but Russia doesn't feel like ti...
We could convince the world that Iran is lying but everyone knows we couldn't tell the truth if the middle east depended on it.
We could speak to the EU but Russia again is feeling grouchy.
We could threaten military actions... But it's clearly a bluff we are wholey inadequet.
We could... Ask very very nicely?
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The Ruescher Empire
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Well Britain would have the upper hand in an attack ;)
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Jivdom
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Upper hand in what?
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The Ruescher Empire
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Well why not have a quick surgical strike to rescue the sailors? Sure it could spark a war and so on, but by golly it'd work :P
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An attack. Hence the last two words of his sentence.


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We could speak to the EU but Russia again is feeling grouchy.


Russia is not in the EU.

We should just take some Iranians prisoner.
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The Ruescher Empire
Apr 1 2007, 11:41 PM
Well why not have a quick surgical strike to rescue the sailors? Sure it could spark a war and so on, but by golly it'd work :P

No it wouldn;t... Thats the point... As the Americans might well remember from the last time something like this happened?
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The Ruescher Empire
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I dunno, not American ;)
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Yeah, but thats because they sent Delta Fuckup to do it. I am sure SAS would make a better job of it. Regardless, the method to sort it out.

Give the Iranians three days to give the prisoners back. If they don't, sink their navy. (America did it last time with one carrier, we have a lot more ships than that deployed in the gulf.) If they still refuse, firebomb their oil stations. If they still refuse, war.
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The Ruescher Empire
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I must agree with Dup on this one :P Iran doesnt have the strength to resist brute force yet.
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Apr 1 2007, 11:55 PM
Yeah, but thats because they sent Delta Fuckup to do it. I am sure SAS would make a better job of it. Regardless, the method to sort it out.

Give the Iranians three days to give the prisoners back. If they don't sink their navy (America did it last time with one carrier, we have a lot more ships than that deployed in the gulf.) If they still refuse firebomb their oil stations. If they still refuse, war.

Not big on thinking things through today,. eh?
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Well, they have proved in the past they will be utterly beligerant and probably not back down on this issue. Their broadcasts across arab television networks have clarified this. So we take things down to their level.


And before you say your comment, this is a tactic that has been used before against the Iranians. During the First Gulf War Iran kept attacking oil tankers. The AMericans told them to stop, they refused so the next time they did it, America sunk half of their surface fleet. Then they stopped.
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Wait.

Do you guys believe what the Iranians say? I'm not saying the Brits are 100% trustworthy (who really is in situations like this?), but if you (100%) believe the Iranians, and the British soldiers who have 'confessed' on Iranian TV, then you guys can't claim to own brains.....

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I'm saying that the world should be no more inclined to believe the UK than Iran. UK and Iran along with Russia and Saudi Arabia are the least trustworthy governments in world (except for America obviously). With the Americans we lied about Iraq's weapons so why should anyone believe us now? The Iranians are hardly trustworthy either so why believe either which...

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And before you say your comment, this is a tactic that has been used before against the Iranians. During the First Gulf War Iran kept attacking oil tankers. The AMericans told them to stop, they refused so the next time they did it, America sunk half of their surface fleet. Then they stopped.


Hehe... Welcome to the new and most complicated age...
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Buh, and China and 'we don't have nukes' Israel.

And the Turks.

And North 'we didn't kidnap your citizens, oh look here they are' Korea.

In fact the only governments I really trust are African dictators. Cause when they say they are going to murder an ethnic group, they go and do it. They don't make up lies or excuses they just say, we don't like the xxxx tribe and *bang* the shooting starts.

Though just because I trust them doesn't mean I like them.

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Once again you display a complete ignorance of Africa. African dictators are just as much lying cheating bastards as ours are. Is they were really honest they wouldn;t get far...
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Being a politician and lying is as natural as breathing. If you don't lie, and if you don't do it well you are a bad politician and you probably won't get elected for any office that gives you power.
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Why the fuck would people believe the Iranian government they have an anti-Israeli as president. Nuff said.
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Why would someone believe a government with a pro israel president.
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