In a weird coincidence the same sailors who were captured were intervied just before their capture and said their job was to gather intelligence on Iran and operate "so close to the buffer zone". Furthermore, they were so far from their ship that helicopter support was absent. Sounds to me like they were in Iranian waters.
Oh, and get this: "some" of them "may" have been kept in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT! Can you believe those cruel Iranians? Somehow I doubt they were waterboarded or punched or made to stand naked...
2007-04-06 04:02:09 · 14 answers · asked by Bella Bruda 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I hope that you are not an American or a Brit.
2007-04-06 04:05:45 · answer #1 · answered by Time to Shrug, Atlas 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Oh WHOOPEE !! Your Rhetoric is trite and STALE... and uninformed as you didn't even bother to watch the entire interview.
Intelligence gathering is NOT a crime, and doesn't necessarily indicate intruding into Iranian waters !!
"Intelligence gathering" can be as SIMPLE as sitting and making note of when and where Iranian patrols go... learning their operational patterns... the capabilities of their boats and crews. Or listening to their radios... again, learning their operational patterns.
Now if you'd listened to the ENTIRE interview, they ALL state that they were IMMEDIATELY place in solitary confinement and WERE strip-searched and subjected to a possible execution.
With regard to those who whine about treatment of Islamic fundamentalist at Gitmo... they are armed combatants and NOT POW's... not in uniform... and under Geneva Conventions NOT entitled to POW treatment... we SHOULD have just shot the SOB's.
2007-04-06 04:20:36 · answer #2 · answered by mariner31 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All governments have a long tradition of spying and not admitting it. It is the Great Game. This little business with the sailors is just part of international relations at work.
It happens far more often than anyone realizes.
2007-04-06 04:08:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The recently disclosed CIA intelligence rewards Iran for stopping their gorilla war against the American occupation of Iraq, and cools the level of the cold war between Iran and the US. The same intelligence was withheld in 2003 to create war hysteria against Iran, in order to make possible a military attack against them and to intimidate Iran by making them believe we would attack them. Barring such an attack, Bush II can attempt to pressure Iran into backing off of Iraq. The CIA releases the intelligence that will support the plans of Bush II. It is not an open democratic institution. For war against Saddam in Iraq it lied with claims of WMD. For the attempted attack against Iran (which now is on hold) it lied about the state of Iranian weapons development. Bush I was head of the CIA, and while he was there crafted a plan for military domination of the region, building underground bunkers in the desert of Saudi Arabia that we still occupy. When he became President, Bush I began to engage his plan by goading Saddam to attack Kuwait by telling him through diplomatic “back channels” the US would not object if he would take over Kuwait (an historical province of Iraq). Once Saddam invaded of course, Bush I unleashed war plans that allowed the US to remain in the region with military forces. As a democracy we cannot trust the CIA to give us truthful information. The elite view in government is that public opinion in a democracy has to be managed and manipulated. Fear of WMD seems to be their preferred method. In fact, Iran is developing WMD. One must question, however, how much of this is a self-fulfilling process resulting from Iran attempting to protect itself against the bullying of the Bush dynasty.
2016-04-01 00:30:38 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow. Not as interesting as your support of the very ideology that wants you dead. Funny how you and your ilk will cut off your own noses, to spite your face. You truly are desperately depraved. If you are so inspired by your beloved Iranian government, then, please go there and don't come back. Ahmadinejad appreciates your assisitance in your own execution. You are completely undeserving of the very freedom that allows you to type your verbal vomit. You are also a vile and despicable waste of oxygen.
2007-04-06 04:17:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Iranians were robbing Iraqi vessels which prompted the Brits to ask about them. Not quite as sinister as you would like to believe.
2007-04-06 04:10:37 · answer #6 · answered by Ted Kennedy 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Bella, it is very interesting, and I feel more information is still coming, and we should be careful about judgments at this point. Keep listening as the truth comes out.
2007-04-06 04:07:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't it get somewhat tiring and frustrating trying to be a lying lackey spokesperson for the Islamo-Fascist hate-mongers of a totalitarian terror state?
2007-04-06 04:11:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you think Iran is so great, pack up and move there. No one is stopping you.
2007-04-06 04:13:22 · answer #9 · answered by az 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Don't go jumping to conclusions you ain't equipped to make. All of our service people are constantly gathering intelligence agaisnt enemies of Democracy. Does that mean that people without a CLUE get to make assumptions? I don't think so.
2007-04-06 04:06:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋