"Mr Obama!!...Mr Hussein Obama!!...Is it true as a reply you decided to give them every single Iranian you have ever met?"...Damn you Tom Daschle
Posted on 02/03/2009 3:25:22 PM PST by Flavius
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Iran may be holding a former FBI agent in a bid to exchange him for Iranians seized by U.S. troops in Iraq in 2007, a U.S. senator suggested Tuesday.
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Time to dust off the MOABs.
Wow. Iran admits to holding an FBI agent hostage and yet are not involved in any war with the US. Therefore this is pure and simple KIDNAPPING.
The Iranians WERE engaging in war with the US on the soil of another country that the US is fighting on behalf of.
And Obama will say “Please, pretty pretty please let him go!”
"Mr Obama!!...Mr Hussein Obama!!...Is it true as a reply you decided to give them every single Iranian you have ever met?"...Damn you Tom Daschle
My question is: Did the Bush Administration know about this? He’s been hostage well over a year...
Your post beautifully, if perhaps not intentionally illustrates the siliness of left-wingers when they always cry about the limits of "American military power." If were to fight a war again like Churchill and Eisenhower fought in WWII, the Iraq war and the Afghanistan War would have been over in months.
It's tough to to win at anything win you're the only one playing by the rules. Churchill understood this. The MOAB is the most lethal conventional weapon ever constructed, yet it has been deployed in actual combat, I believe, only 2 or three times. Churchill would have started dropping them and not stopped until A) there was an unconditional surrender, or B) He ran out of MOAB's to drop. Oh how time has changed things.
Read more carefully. The person in question is a “former” FBI agent. He had been in the mideast on non-government business.
Iran has been waging a warm war with us for over 30 years. The only problem is they are the only ones attacking.
We owe them big time but apparently will never pay them back.
So kidnapping Americans is ok as long as they aren’t still employed?
A FORMER FBI agent still has information, right? They don’t do one of those Men in Black mind eraser things do they?
You said — “Wow. Iran admits to holding an FBI agent hostage and yet are not involved in any war with the US. Therefore this is pure and simple KIDNAPPING.”
It might be — if — he was an FBI Agent, for one thing, and secondly — if — Iran did kidnap him. But, since he’s not an FBI agent (for one thing) and since Iran has never said that they know about him or have kidnapped him or have seized him (for another thing) — it’s all speculation.
This “private business” (investigating cigarette smuggling) this guy was on, in Iran, may have been something that caused private parties (over there in Iran) to kill him. I mean, “smugglers” are not usually very nice guys, ya know...
Or perhaps, some terrorists saw an opportunity to kidnap an American (in Iran, no less...). I mean, who thinks it’s safe for an American to go wandering around in Iran, asking questions.... LOL...
No, I did not say kidnapping Americans is “ok as long as they aren’t employed”. Neither did I imply it.
Yes I would drop 100 just to send a message and work out the kinks. Then Id get down to some serious bombing. We make it so hard these days when its really quite obvious and easy.
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