When the heck are we going to war with provocative IRAN?

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Diplomats meet over Iranian seizure of British sailors
POSTED: 5:56 p.m. EDT, March 23, 2007
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• NEW: Governments summon ambassadors to explain incident
• NEW: Incident could exacerbate tensions between Iran, West
•15 British sailors on patrol in the Persian Gulf "seized" by Iranian navy
• Personnel were carrying out "routine" boarding of a vessel when apprehended
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- An Iranian naval patrol seized 15 British marines and sailors who had boarded a vessel suspected of smuggling cars off the coast of Iraq, military officials said.

The British government immediately demanded the safe return of its troops and summoned Tehran's London ambassador to explain the incident.

Foreign Minister Margaret Beckett said she was "extremely disturbed" by the capture of the 15 personnel...


HOW MUCH PROVOCATION BY THIS EVIL NATION DO WE NEED? The takeover of our embassy should have been enough.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/23/iran.uk/index.html

DO YOU PEOPLE THINK THAT ALL THE PEOPLE IN NAZI GERMANY WERE BAD? WHERE WE RACIST FOR ATTACKING THAT COUNTRY? PEOPLE CLEAN THE COMMUNIST SLUDGE FROM YOUR BRAINS AND WAKE UP!

PEOPLE WAKE UP. THIS IS WW3 WE ARE IN AN IRAN IS NAZI GERMANY!

Answer 1

Should the U.S. go after Iran? Maybe that is on the horizon.

There are US troops in Iraq to the west of Iran, there are US troops in Afghanistan to the east of Iran. And a strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis recently joined a similar force in the Persian Gulf led by the carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Iran has ignored all deadlines to cease enrichment of uranium. The UN is imposing sanctions on Iran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad abruptly canceled his planned trip to New York to address the U.N. Security Council.

U.S. and British officials said a boarding party from the frigate HMS Cornwall was seized about during a routine inspection of a merchant ship inside Iraqi territorial waters near the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway.

The seizure of two Royal Navy inflatable boats took place just outside the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, a 125-mile channel dividing Iraq from Iran. Its name means Arab Coastline in Arabic, and Iranians call it Arvandrud - Persian for Arvand River. A 1975 treaty recognized the middle of the waterway as the border.

Iranians send arms to Iraqi extremists, including sophisticated roadside bombs. This week, two commanders of an Iraqi Shiite militia told The Associated Press in Baghdad that hundreds of Iraqi Shiites had crossed into Iran for training by the elite Quds force, a branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guard thought to have trained Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon

Answer 2

This was an act of piracy and a violation of international laws and treaties not by teh official Iranian navy but by the republican guard which is a self serving outfit that would like to provoke a war as they double deal in arms and contraband smuggling to both sides. We need to declare war on THEM and blast them from the water, Iran does not acknowledge them so there should be no protest. this same piracy goes on elsewhere such as along Yemen and needs to be dealt with teh same way. Britain has cut back their navy so pathetically it can't even protect it's own shores, let alone protect itself in the gulf. Yes, this is all a product of inept leadership from 1979, when they should have kicked butt instead of allowing the crackpots to take over Iran. Dhimmi Carter's giveaway of the Panama Canal is likewise going to come back and haunt us someday.

Answer 3

Not any time soon.

You seem to forget that we barely have enough troops for Iraq and Afghanistan much less a third war. Not only that, we have insufficient logistics in place to handle the invasion. Any rampu up will be beamed across the world the minute the first C-47s leaves for Abu Dhabi.

And every person who says we can't leave Iraq, they are also saying we cannot invade Iran. Unless you care to conjure up an additional 500k troops (I say 500k because the original Iraq invasion called for that number but it was reduced to 150k by the White House for, well, I'm not sure)

Answer 4

It's pretty convenient that this has happened at a time when Bush is trying to drum up support against Iran. If it was Americans then it would be too obvious so how about Brits. Bush & Blair lied to get into Iraq so why not now. Of course they will say the troops were in Iraqi waters but how do you know.
Brainless f**ks like you are the reason Bush Co. gets away with so much.

Answer 5

First off, I think many Germans in Nazi Germany were too AFRAID to speak out. Besides, with the SS seemingly everywhere, speaking out would insure their death.

Think of it this way...can the people who want Bush to bring the troops home accomplish that goal? ?
Only in a perfect world, which this is not.

As for IRAN, according to the author of Living in Hell by Ghazal Omid, she said WAR is exactly what President Mahmoud wants us to do. Sick power hungry people want war. We would lose in a war with them because everyone else would join against USA. We would be successfully manipulated by Iran and thus controlled into fighting a war we cannot possibly win.

Answer 6

You do not know what really happened there and where those Brits were when the Iranians seized them...
If they were in Iranian water then Iran can call it a provocation from the Brits...
So I hope there is not going to be another war based on lies...

Answer 7

We had our chance in 1977 when the Iranians overran our embassy, and President Carter blew it.

Now, we have to wait utnil they've done something so outrageous, so hideous, and so atrocious that it will unify world opinion against them.

That will, I believe, happen before too long...I just hope it's not the US that it happens to, but I sure hope we're a part of the response!

Answer 8

Have you read the news about Zimbabwe lately or maybe they haven't broken enough human rights violations yet I am sure Mugabe has killed as many as Saddam.Tell me if you have people in your waters say Cubans or Mexicans you just let them in do you and if they have an enemy uniform on what you welcome them with open arms.Iran did not go against any Geneva conventions laws so stop trying to provoke another war and win the one Bush started first.

Answer 9

did you know ancient iran is were aryans come from; do you think there are still aryans there? do you think that maybe not all the people in the country are bad. did you ever think that only specific and evil people there are controlling everyone else did you ever think that maybe specific people should be singled out not the whole damn land mass. If you didn't then maybe that's why your such a big looooooosahhhhh

Answer 10

Never, hopefully. Unless you want thousands of people to die, Iranians and Americans, and America's economy to collapse, and there to be a new wave of terrorist attacks, and Al-Qu'aeda to gain a thousand more recruits, and there to be a Third Intifada against Israel with all the bloodshed that would cause, and China to cement its position as superpower.

War with Iran is just about the stupidest thing we could do.