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Row over British sailors widens to EU

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By Deutsche Presse Agentur Mar 31, 2007, 15:15 GMT


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Jared SewellMar 31st, 2007 - 16:05:39

Diplomacy can only accomplish so much with a government that is so hostile as to perform piracy on the high seas, and so incompetent that they can't even lie convincingly about what they have done.

Here is what needs to happen ASAP.

All representatives of Iran in the free world (especially New York) should be immediately rounded up and detained.

The two U.S. Carrier fleets park off Iranian shores need to begin the systematic destruction of the Iranian Navy.

U.S. and British Bomber wings need to destroy the only oil refinery in Iran.

U.S. and British Bomber wings need to begin the systematic destruction of the Iranian Electrical and communications infrastructure.

These are all things that can be done immediately that would not only ensure an end to this crisis but would likely prevent any future incidents.

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sicMar 31st, 2007 - 17:14:46

They just need to go in there and get those sailors before we're watching poor quality videos of them being decapitated.

And then nuke the entire middle east. Enough is enough.

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SP4: Then what?Mar 31st, 2007 - 17:19:39

What is a reasonable response?

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Colin BristolMar 31st, 2007 - 17:41:38

We have given these iranian pirates enough time lets just go in and get our sailors using as much force as is nessesary then nuke Tehran,if we dont make a stand against them soon we will have another 9/11.

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MrHackitMar 31st, 2007 - 17:53:43

prehaps a suitable rsponse is finish the job they are about to start.
There is no way the US or israel will allow iran to have nukes in any shape or form after all this is just diversionary tactics with the hope that people wont notice whats going on in the background or a hope of exchanging thier captured people for ours. i will be amazed if iran isnt attacked by america or israel before the end of the bush presidency.
nostradaemus predicted that war would come from the east looks very like thats exactly whats going to happen

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AJMar 31st, 2007 - 18:32:33

Let's just get the troops out first hey?

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Jared SewellMar 31st, 2007 - 18:51:31

Why is it better to take the high road? What deterrence does it provide those that would cause us harm? If the western world can be relied on by it's enemies to always take the high road, then piracy and terrorism become legitimate tactics and tools of statecraft. It's a process whereby we in the states have been unknowingly provoking attacks because our enemies see diplomacy as our greatest weakness. Primarily because we rely on it too often.

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tonny from belgiumMar 31st, 2007 - 18:51:43

Whatever the solution let us just outrule stupid plans like nuking Iran.THat is so stupid that it(s a shame to civilized thinking.

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got a pointMar 31st, 2007 - 19:03:09

Tonny may be right. Nuke Belgium first.

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SP4: A Different SongMar 31st, 2007 - 19:26:30

We get a whole different flavor of comment when it's your own countrymen. Nuke Iran? Is that what everyone wants? Who is going to do the Nuking?

I would agree that, it's a popular movement in Iran, so perhaps the population is partially to blame.

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the bombMar 31st, 2007 - 19:32:34

I say 'bomb' the place with Church of Scientology pamphlets (alternatively with John Travolta/Tom Cruise pictures on the back).

That oughta mess 'em up.

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John BirchMar 31st, 2007 - 20:33:57

Send in the American Republic Army, because the British are weak and have no backbone. Never leave a soldier behind!

Long live the American Republic!

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Abu EishaMar 31st, 2007 - 21:41:47

Abu Eisha told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa over the telephone that his government urged the European Union and the International Community to supply guides or manuals on how to properly use toilets and toilet paper. He advised direct contact with the paper and arse after all members of the Hamas uses the hole.

His remarks were made in response to EU foreign ministers, who stated that standing on the toilet to take a crap was messy, and that the paper is not for writting on. The non-Hamas ministers have been useing the toilets properly but are so used to digging holes in the ground they are confused as are the entire Palestinian coalition.

The EU stance to deal with this problem, has been much like the UN, they want separete porta pottys for their community. Alas a positive development will come if the wall or separation works but will be insufficient, Abu Eisha said, adding that 'in any toilet we are taught to stand from birth and wipe with our bare hands' He was asked how do you clean yourselves and he answered 'with a hammer, we hit our dirty hand and instantly the hand to mouth cleaner works' The EU will refer to the UN

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Lord your GodMar 31st, 2007 - 22:01:33

To those pathetic souls who are proposing a war I would say that your arguments make your ignorance stand out.
Cost of the war to unsuccessfully retrieve the seamen - Around $300 billion. Lives lost in the unsuccessful attempt - In the thousands.
Why unsuccessful you ask? Ask Israel, they tried it in Lebanon, and Iran is 100 times the size of Lebanon. It would be highly unlikely the seamen are held at Tehran Police headquarters !!
You know what you war mongers are? you are slimy little bottom feeders who take pleasure in wars and the miseries of other people. Get off this planet and find yourself another rock to live on and fight your wars there.

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MahmoudMar 31st, 2007 - 22:14:29

On Thursday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip that the case had entered an illegal investigation phase, state television reported.

Ansari also reiterated Iran's stance that the British government could resolve the crisis by admitting the Irainian sailors took the hostages after they entered Iraqi waters.

'If the U.K. government admits it was in Iraqi waters and apologizes to no one for its naval personnel's UN mandated interdiction of our arms shipments in Iraqi territorial waters, the issue can be easily settled,' he said.

The diplomat claimed the British government has us diplomatic avenues to avoid the crisis by taking the matter to the U.N. Security Council rather than resolving it on a bilateral basis which would not work any how.

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TONY B(USH) LIARSMar 31st, 2007 - 23:24:08

Next step for April 6, 2007 attack is to make it 'NATO ' problem and interference. The lying couple like the rest of the western world go step by step towards their goal.

AND THAT IS START OF THIRD WORLD WAR

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Blue LadyMar 31st, 2007 - 23:29:08

Well said, Lord-Your God.

Things are bad now, but they can certainly get worse. The one way to guarantee a new 9/11 is to engage in a hopeless and excessive knee-jerk venture like a pre-emptive nuclear war with Iran! (lol)

Whatever the west intends to gain with all this perpetual involvement in middle eastern affairs will definitely fall flat if something that extreme is undertaken, given that anti-western sentiment will skyrocket throughout the region, and most of the more western-friendly moderate regimes will quickly be replaced by militant ones. If I were Bin Laden, the one thing I would be praying for is a nuclear attack against Iran.

Even a CONVENTIONAL western invasion of another Islamic nation would be extremely useful in hardening the collective antiwestern resolve, and further proliferating international terrorism.

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sin3Mar 31st, 2007 - 23:41:20

Obviously to apologize is a confession of malfeasence. Teran knows this and may have plotted it out to embarass the British. Note that they refere to them as the occupying country. That's the way to make friends. Shoot trespassers, even if they don't deserve it.

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sin4Mar 31st, 2007 - 23:43:06

Read the 'Ezekial Option'.

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Omar Abdula Mahmoud Bin Khatami ...Apr 1st, 2007 - 00:48:20

This Mahmoud guy seems to make sense. Is it that not all terrorist sounding names speak reason.

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