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2007-04-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran warns Bush not to talk unwisely over Britons' case

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Posted by Fred 2007-04-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 You get the feeling either:
1) They feel lucky, and feel the odds are with them...so go ahead and twist the tiger's tail while they can;
2) They are just stupid;
3) They are trying to provoke us.

My money is on #1.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2007-04-02 00:19|| 2007-04-02 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 If there ever was a shitbag country that needed to be smacked, it's Iran.

Oh, and mouse, It's #1.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-04-02 00:25|| 2007-04-02 00:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Can I pick more than one?

Posted by gorb 2007-04-02 00:41|| 2007-04-02 00:41|| Front Page Top

#4 So Iran gets to dictate what is wisdom? Iran is in deep doo-doo but it is probably going to take a while to fully manifest. Honestly, by not reacting severely and simply treating Iran economically as if it were nothing more than a large lake on the map, the longer they hold those hostages, the worse things are going to get for them.

They are trying to recreate 1979 in order to rally their population around the government. But this isn't 1979 and the conditions that caused 1979 to happen don't exist now. This isn't going to last. And quite frankly, if the media organizations would simply pack it up and head home, it would end a lot sooner. The likes of CNN, wire services, TV networks, etc. are what are enabling this. Without the attention, the hostages would be of no use.

The media can end it, but they are making too much hay to do so. They aren't willing to kill a major story for the benefit of the people involved. They're just sick.

Posted by crosspatch 2007-04-02 00:58|| 2007-04-02 00:58|| Front Page Top

#5 So now we have threats and demands. I call it terrorism, since this a Global War on the same..

Posted by Flolumble Elmuling1667 2007-04-02 01:33|| 2007-04-02 01:33|| Front Page Top

#6 The more frightened they are, the more they bluster. Amadinachodad is teetering on the edge, so he makes warnings and threats. Keep your eye on Good Friday.

Posted by Jonathan">Jonathan 2007-04-02 06:43|| 2007-04-02 06:43|| Front Page Top

#7 very strong points crosspatch, you've identified the desparation of a government system that is broke. It cant be repaired, its a failed system that is plundering its population. The religous component keeps the cultural identity alive, but the economics are so backward that it has exposed the theft and appropriation by the religous component, further working up resentment within the broader population. No, iran is a broken state run by a bunch of larcenists using a bull horn....as their means of identifying themselves.....trouble is, its all output, and a system with no input, cant survive. nice job exposing the role of our extensible media as facilitators of the iran bullhorn.

Posted by Jeremiah Glimp1292 2007-04-02 08:08|| 2007-04-02 08:08|| Front Page Top

#8 very strong points crosspatch, you've identified the desparation of a government system that is broke. It cant be repaired, its a failed system that is plundering its population. The religous component keeps the cultural identity alive, but the economics are so backward that it has exposed the theft and appropriation by the religous component, further working up resentment within the broader population. No, iran is a broken state run by a bunch of larcenists using a bull horn....as their means of identifying themselves.....trouble is, its all output, and a system with no input, cant survive. nice job exposing the role of our extensible media as facilitators of the iran bullhorn.

Posted by Jeremiah Glimp1292 2007-04-02 08:16|| 2007-04-02 08:16|| Front Page Top

#9 As much as I'd like nothing better than to see Iran's ass kicked back into the Stone Age and that homo dwarf strung up from a lamppost, it's like they really WANT a war and will do almost anything to get it. I keep thinking of Galtieri and the Falklands crisis.

Posted by Mac 2007-04-02 09:17|| 2007-04-02 09:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Any counter-propaganda being sent into Iran to stir up their domestic anti-mullacractic forces?

Posted by eLarson 2007-04-02 10:30|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-04-02 10:30|| Front Page Top

#11 Bite me, monkey-boy. Keep it up, you'll get yours.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-04-02 10:58|| 2007-04-02 10:58|| Front Page Top

#12 Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini has advised the U.S. President to avoid using unwise, legally unfounded rhetoric

Oh, I thought that was Pelosi and Reid that said that...

Posted by Capsu 78 2007-04-02 11:24|| 2007-04-02 11:24|| Front Page Top

#13 #1 You get the feeling either:
1) They feel lucky, and feel the odds are with them...so go ahead and twist the tiger's tail while they can;
2) They are just stupid;
3) They are trying to provoke us.

All of the above.

I pray they find out just how stupid it is to twist tigers' tails. Losing a few cities to waves of BUFFS would tend to do that. I recommend Kharq Island, Busaher, Bandar Abbas, and Abadan - their principle oil-exporting ports.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-04-02 12:59|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-04-02 12:59|| Front Page Top

#14 #4. Well crosspatch, on the surface what you're saying may seem true but keeping journalists out of this wouldn't end anything any sooner. The world needs a forum to speak to each other and it sounds like you want to kill the messenger for delivering the message. What an Iranian bureaucrat gets as a soundbite doesn't validate restricting free flowing information. If anything, with more media attention on these kooks, they'll dig themselves into more threats against us. Then when the inevitable is here, we can say " hey Iran, you shouldn't have been talking sh*t..."

Posted by still here 2007-04-02 13:07|| 2007-04-02 13:07|| Front Page Top

#15 iran is a broken state run by a bunch of larcenists using a bull horn

Bingo, give the man a Kewpie doll! Great summary, JG.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-02 16:01|| 2007-04-02 16:01|| Front Page Top

#16 US Warns Iran It Has Nukes And They Don't (Yet)!

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