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2007-07-24 Britain

Brown wont rule out military action in Iran

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Posted by Steve White 2007-07-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 FREEREPUBLIC > SYRIAN OFFICIAL - WAR AGZ ISRAEL WILL BE "BALLISTIC", i.e. very likely be a de facto missle war + asymmetric guerilla war/actions agz Tel Aviv + Israeli interests in Lebanon. No promises on NOT using WMDS-CBR's.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-07-24 01:00|| 2007-07-24 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 We'll see how much Gall Mr Brown has, when the Offensive to stop Iran's nuke progress starts; whether by Israel or the US...I'm going to be counting how many Battle Groups and troops the Brits contribute. My gut suggests to me, like The Cornwall incident, the poodle nation may fade to the background in a valiant retreat.

Posted by smn 2007-07-24 01:22|| 2007-07-24 01:22|| Front Page Top

#3 The fangless, declawed British lion roars yet again.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-24 03:00|| 2007-07-24 03:00|| Front Page Top

#4 We might have gutless leadership but if you remember Gulf war 1 & 2,Afghanistan and Balkans we were always there unlike many of our Europeans counterparts.

Respect your allies or lose them!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Paul 2007-07-24 05:19|| 2007-07-24 05:19|| Front Page Top

#5 There was a report the other day that the British armed forces are at maximum deployment. If I understood it correctly, there simply aren't any more reserves to throw at new problems... not to mention bullets.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-24 05:50|| 2007-07-24 05:50|| Front Page Top

#6 British pilots are not fully deployed. And some have trained with our UAV operators -- including for the Reaper prototypes.

Posted by lotp 2007-07-24 07:03|| 2007-07-24 07:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Good to know, lotp. Thanks. Must've been reporter over exuberance.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-24 07:10|| 2007-07-24 07:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Paul is right tho - the Brits have stood up and fought when the rest of Europe was lounging with afterdinner drinks, ignoring the peril that looms.

And tw, my understanding is the same as yours, that the British military is stretched hard.

Posted by lotp 2007-07-24 07:14|| 2007-07-24 07:14|| Front Page Top

#9 The Brits are good troops. Our troops are good troops. Both of our nations suffer from left nattering nabobs of negativism and defeat--mostly in the dhemmi-led Congress. We need civilian leaders worthy of the troops. The so-called dhemmi debate last night was a pathetically staged piece of dreck.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-24 07:30|| 2007-07-24 07:30|| Front Page Top

#10 1. Even if there are no Brit troops to go into Iran, thats not whats important, whats important is that if and when the US goes in, the Brits would give their political support to our action.

2. The more Gordon Brown really wants sanctions to work, the more he has to leave force on the table. Only the prospect of the use of force by the US and UK will frighten the Russians into allowing tougher sanctions to pass.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2007-07-24 09:35|| 2007-07-24 09:35|| Front Page Top

#11 The British troops are great. Their political leadership sucks. Much like ours....

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-07-24 09:47|| 2007-07-24 09:47|| Front Page Top

#12 The Brits are good troops. Our troops are good troops. Both of our nations suffer from left nattering nabobs of negativism and defeat

But the British nation is deeply, deeply sick. Never so many throwed away so much they owed to so few.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-07-24 09:48|| 2007-07-24 09:48|| Front Page Top

#13 We are only sick due to mass immigration which Labour has encouraged leaving us with no identity and therefore diluted patriosm.This PC Government is creating our Great country to decline as they put the immigrants ahead of their own and the proud to be british country are being actively pressurised to accept a multicultural country that was alien to us back in the 50's.The British spirit of WW11 has been replaced by delusion and apathy.This country has a welfare culture that Maggie Thatcher would never would have accepted.We are the dumping ground of Europe/World when its comes to scroungers,benefit seekers.As one czech girl told me on a recent visit to Prague 'Your country is soft they accept all the gypsies from eastern europe who do not want to work!"

Posted by Paul 2007-07-24 09:58|| 2007-07-24 09:58|| Front Page Top

#14 Roger Wilco, Paul. I would rather have a Para regiment, a few SAS and SBS squads, some Harrier cover and nice canteen with hot tea than to have the French or German divisions of pansy-wansys at my disposal. It isn't the quantity but the quality. And at the heart of the warrior class it doesn't get much better than the British soldier.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-07-24 10:05|| 2007-07-24 10:05|| Front Page Top

#15 Give me an SAS team, a bn of Paras, and British tac-air, and I'll call that better than a full mech division of the pukes the German Army has sent to the Stan.

Don't diss the Brits. They punch well above their weight.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-07-24 11:14|| 2007-07-24 11:14|| Front Page Top

#16 So is it agreed that the picture of the little dog is not a nice way to depict our cousins across the pond? Or maybe it was meant for Mr. Brown and not the rest of them.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-07-24 11:40|| 2007-07-24 11:40|| Front Page Top

#17 Have some respect for the Mother Country!!!!

We ran the world before you guys ever did!!!!

Left wing people are the enemy not the hardworking british people who are fleeing the UK in droves BTW!!!!

Posted by Paul 2007-07-24 11:55|| 2007-07-24 11:55|| Front Page Top

#18 I'm pretty sure Steve intended that picture as a commentary on Gordon Brown's selection of several anti-US ministers rather than as a hit on Britian herself.

Most of us here at Rantburg are deeply worried about Britain precisely because we value her as a key ally and as the original source of so much that is good in our country.

Posted by lotp 2007-07-24 11:57|| 2007-07-24 11:57|| Front Page Top

#19
By the time Brown gives up on sanctions there won't BE a UK anymore. Check in with EU Referendum. This IGC "treaty" will stip all sovereignty from the individual Euro states and give it to Brussels in the area of Foreign and Defense Policy.

Even the weasels themselves admit that the "new" treaty is the constitution that was voted down by the French and the Dutch.

But this time, they kept the content but call it a treaty so no referendums will be allowed. Brown has already said that the Brits won't get a vote.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2007-07-24 13:15|| 2007-07-24 13:15|| Front Page Top

#20 The British troops are great. Their political leadership sucks. Much like ours....

I'll cheerfully agree to that distinction.

nattering nabobs of negativism

Paging Spiro to the white courtesy phone.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-24 13:48|| 2007-07-24 13:48|| Front Page Top

#21 "I appeal to the Iranian authorities to understand the feelings that other countries..."

Feelings? Feelings? Nothing more than feelings? What? Was Brownine at Babs' concert the other night and she did this old song just for him and it is now an earworm in his pointy little skull?

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-07-24 14:05|| 2007-07-24 14:05|| Front Page Top

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