Blair convenes Cobra team as crisis in Iran escalates

scotsman.com ^ | 25th March 2007 | BRIAN BRADY

[SlayerOfBunnies]

I still want to know what the heck Iranian ships (boats/whatever) were doing in Iraqi waters in the first place. The Brits and the Americans have right and reason to be there - the Iranians, as far as I know, do not.

Far from letting them surround and capture British boats and crews, should the good guys not have prevented the Iranians from even entering the neighborhood?

[auto power]

uh ooo....

[SlayerOfBunnies]

You seem to be confusing 'Animal Farm' with '1984'. I don't recall pigs rewriting anything in the former and I'm pretty sure it was the 'Ministry of Truth' that did the rewriting in the later.

[SlayerOfBunnies]

Erm... we do?

[SlayerOfBunnies]

We already did. Times two. I think we need to consider doing it again.

[cvq3842]

It's almost 28 years overdue!

[Redbob]

"Why isn't the USA involved?"

Perhaps because when the Brits once again show themselves to be spineless weasels, allowing their men "and at least one woman" to be seized without a shot being fired, they ought to damn well be on their own.

[capitalist229]

COBRA Cabinet Office Briefing Room A

A sign of our times when politicians are the most deadly force available in a crisis.

BUMP

[wot_grandma]

Let me make a prediction.

Nothing is going to happen. UK does not have the will or the money to do anything to Iran.

Their only hope is for us to do something.

[SlayerOfBunnies]

No civilian casualties, just a neutered dictator.

Why not? IMO there's nothing wrong with the citizens of an a-hole country feeling the pain their leaders invite. Seems to me that would provide better incentive for those citizens to rise up and lynch Mr. Ahaneuteredslob.

[Elsie]

The clutch of VIPs will gather in an operations room several floors below Downing Street as early as this afternoon to plot an escape from a military spat that now threatens to become an international incident. WAR!!!

[servantboy777]

It would be easy to see what that nutjob president of Iran is made of..........

Giv'em three days to release them or shake the big stick.
Not a little, butta lot and hit'em really hard, multiple targets.......including the ol nuke sites.


If the Brits or anyone else for that fact allow this, it will embolden the Iranians into more aggressive posturing.

[Elsie]

The Iranians calculated that the British would Democrats will not do anything other than talk, and they are correct.

[Elsie]

The United States England should immediately bomb and destroy Iran's oil pipelines, shutting off their supply of money in the process, wrecking their economy if they don't meet our their demands.

[Elsie]

We don't have a "Ronnie" around today to lead us........

Yes; we do.

[Elsie]

What should the West do if Iran calls our bluff and executes these fine sailors as a show of force?

They are not THAT suicidal!!

[Elsie]

They need Maggie Thatcher.

Amen!

At least SHE had some balls!

[rollo tomasi]

I was posting a hypothetical to a moonbat.

But I must say Ahmadinejad is even more radical then the average jihadist. This guy believes in the 12th Imam or the Mahdi and wants to speed up his coming by destroying Israel and starting the Armageddon.

[timer]

It's easy to see that iran is going thru a guns vs butter issue. The general population wants to come into the 21st century as an economic equal amoung the nations. The kooks want to jank them back into 9th century barbarism for their own personal gain. Their fate is on the knife edge right now, all GWB has to do is push the button and a lot of innocent iranians die along with the kooks... Blair is a "wobbly" but our president has a backbone of STEEL.

[Freeport]

Instead of "Hold Fire" the order should have been "Havoc!".