Is it because they are admitting in the video that they made a mistake. are they afraid that the world will realize that the british were in fact in iranian waters, possibly trying to stir up something to force a confrontation. most people would be happy to see their soldiers in good health and being treated properly, but instead they talk about how bad it is. arent they just upset because they are beginning to look bad?
2007-03-30 04:17:04 · 13 answers · asked by 2010 CWS Champs! 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
hey mike t, if my son or daughter was on tv showing them in perfectly health condition, with proper treatment and in good spirits, i think i would be extremely happy. would you not?
2007-03-30 04:33:47 · update #1
How in Gods name do some of you respondents get off on citing the Geneva convention rules for hostages when neither America nor Britain follows those rules.
The hypocrisy of the conservatives has taken on a whole new level of off the wall bizarre.
I fail to see why people think Iran is stupid enough to capture the British soldiers if they were indeed in Iraqi waters, how long can you poke a rabid raccoon before it will lash out at you by the way?
2007-03-30 04:34:48 · answer #1 · answered by Perplexed 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Well for one thing publicly displaying military captured in uniform is a blatant violation of the Geneva Convention. And why are people so quick to accept that these sailors were not coerced by Iran, but are equally eager to believe that confessions out of GITMO are?
After all Iran is so innocent. They just kidnapped and publicly FILLETED the tongue of an Iranian activist who was calling for a strike of the buses in Iran...not just cut it out...but sliced it lengthwise...cut off a piece...slice it lengthwise again and cut off a piece...etc. Done in public while the guy was awake!! Yeah, these guys wouldn't torture the sailors.
BTW, the Iranian president spoke publicly just a couple of days before the sailors were captured and said that Iran would cause a confrontation with the West. Just maybe the Iranian government is the one trying to force a confrontation.
Get informed!
2007-03-30 11:39:27 · answer #2 · answered by kathy_is_a_nurse 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm surprised you so willingly take the Iranian position and are buying their propaganda. Have you looked at how they have the woman in a head wrap mimicking a ME woman? Do you really think a British sailor would turn on their country any more than an American? She is repeating talking points of the Iranians and you don't see that she is being coerced? Not to mention their complete disregard of Geneva Convention rules. Unlike the Iranians, the British have offered satellite pictures showing their position in Iraqi waters. They have offered them up for examination to anyone to prove they were not skewed. I'm just shocked that any American, especially, would forget the past delusional and threatening statements of Ahmadinejad and all of sudden credit him with logical thinking and truthfulness over one of our staunchest Allies. What in the world are you thinking?
2007-03-30 11:35:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They aren't looking bad at all. If anything its stirring the pot of British emotions against Iranians even further.
If that was your son or daughter up there being paraded on national television then how would you feel?
Iran are just giving the world more proof that they are the most untrustworthy nation (next to North Korea) upon this planet. Iran are throwing their toys out of the pram because they aren't allowed to destroy allied troops within Iraq anymore, nothing more and nothing less.
2007-03-30 11:27:12 · answer #4 · answered by Mike T 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A better question would be if the British sailors did something criminal, then why are they releasing one of them? A criminal is a criminal, and releasing one of a group of captives is usually a gesture of "good faith" in bargaining.
Those sailors are hostages, and they were abducted. They were "forced" to state what they did, and anyone believing it as fact is very delusional.
2007-03-30 11:26:05 · answer #5 · answered by volleyballchick (cowards block) 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well, considering the girl was saying that the british needs to leave iraq immediately..... um.. yea, that shows that Iran is using coercian against them. But its all political this is. Iran is just trying to unite all of the ME under them. So, if they make the west look bad, and get away with it, then they get more on the radical islamics side and the rest of the ME's side.
2007-03-30 11:22:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's against the Geneva Convention to make prisoners a public spectacle.
This means that they are not allowed to force them into confessions, then try to use the forced confessions to appeal to public opinion.
If you were suckered into it, think of how many others must think the same thing?
2007-03-30 11:23:03 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I remember this one video of a pilot shot down in Vietnam. He was on the video saying how wonderful things were going and so on. On further review of the viedo, he was blinking Morse code and telling how the captives were being tortured and starved. Watching this video reminds me of that.
2007-03-30 11:21:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
You have succinctly demonstrated the Liberal Democrat mindset, everything our guys say is a lie and everything everybody else says is the absolute truth. Well done you may go back to finding the truth on al_jazeera.
2007-03-30 11:26:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is illegal to parade captives on TV secondly these are coerced confessions made under duress.
I'd do it too. I'd sing and dance with a tutu on if I was in their place. They aren't even enemies with Iran like we are.
2007-03-30 11:24:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋