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2007-03-25 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Dave D. 2007-03-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Growing concerns" works with effeminate EU politicians in Brussels. Not with blood-thirsty mullahs in Tehran.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2007-03-25 00:34|| 2007-03-25 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Sorry, but I'd argue that the phrase "growing concerns for the safety of the 15 marines and Royal Navy personnel" is a devastating indictment of the UK's seriousness and competence. "Safety" of military personnel (outside an industrial accident or plane-crash scenario)??? WTF? "Safety"? Uh, how about national interests, national security, strategic imperatives, etc.

If the Iranian "student group" comment reported elsewhere is to be believed, this is a crude attempt to try to spring the al Quds excrement we snatched in Irbil. Is it too much to hope that Petraeus and Fallon and the WH are telling Blair "uh, you f**ked up big-time, and we're not going to bail you out"?

Posted by Verlaine 2007-03-25 00:38|| 2007-03-25 00:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Verlaine - if they do somehow release the Quds excrement somebody should make sure of the following: 1 they sing soprano, 2 they have gps trackers and mics implanted in their bods 3 they have a dose of Marburg Virus just before being freed. (Ebola kills too fast)

Posted by 3dc 2007-03-25 01:02|| 2007-03-25 01:02|| Front Page Top

#4 If they really did this to get their Quds swine back, we should send just the heads. That would send a nice sweet message that would likely get results. Fast.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-03-25 01:18|| 2007-03-25 01:18|| Front Page Top

#5 It's pretty difficult to suddenly morph into Clint Eastwood if you spend most of your time talking about Climate Change™. Although it has be said that, as acronyms go, COBRA is pretty damn cool.

Posted by Sonar 2007-03-25 01:50|| 2007-03-25 01:50|| Front Page Top

#6 ... you want to give the towelheads a real warm, runny feeling, then lob a few SLCMs at Qom ...

Dave, I really take exception to juvenile name-calling like "towelheads". I also take exception to lunatic bullshit hostage taking like what's going on in Iran.

Let's please compromise and have Tehran and Qom get the crap bombed out of them for good measure. Eh?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-25 02:43|| 2007-03-25 02:43|| Front Page Top

#7 The five Iranians in Iraq were responsible for the killings of coalition troops. Now the Iranians are kidnapping coalition troops.

Tony Blair should announce that the Iranians have SIX HOURS to release the 15 or the Royal Navy will commence sinking the entire Iranian fleet, which they have the power to do. If the Mullahs kill any of the 15, they should then hit the capital mercilously.

The Iranian supported Hezbollah took two Israeli troops, and the IDF IMMEDIATELY invaded Lebanon, kicking serious Hez Butt. Did they kill the two Israeli's? NO. Will the Iranians murder the 15 POW's? If so, The US, Brittain, and Israel should unleash on Iran and Syria a decisive defeat.

Posted by Ho Chi Glager5496 2007-03-25 03:07|| 2007-03-25 03:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Let's please compromise and have Tehran and Qom get the crap bombed out of them for good measure. Eh?

And Isfahan, it has all the best architecture.

Posted by Sonar 2007-03-25 03:08|| 2007-03-25 03:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Chi Glager5496, right, 6 hours.

That would be the correct time frame if we had leaders with brains, spine and balls.

What better casus belli can you ask for?

There is one thing I do not get. What are the effing British ROE? This simply should not have happened.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-03-25 03:32|| 2007-03-25 03:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Why do I see the USS San Pablo docked on the Yangste and hear the rump rump rump a company of United States Marines at port arms, doubletimeing thru the streets to the rescue....? Lets show these worthless goat buggering phuechs what we're made of! GSTQ!

Posted by Besoeker 2007-03-25 05:15|| 2007-03-25 05:15|| Front Page Top

#11 IMO: Blair's gonna do nada, zip, and zilch.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-25 05:58|| 2007-03-25 05:58|| Front Page Top

#12 This should be an Act of War, or at the very least warrant some bombing at some important sites. Sadly Blair won't do anything. Neither would the US I think, though this might be a test run to see if we would. Afterall, if Britain doesn't do anything when this happens, doesn't that mean the United States won't?

Posted by Charles 2007-03-25 06:24|| 2007-03-25 06:24|| Front Page Top

#13 "Dave, I really take exception to juvenile name-calling like "towelheads"."

Tough.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-03-25 08:47|| 2007-03-25 08:47|| Front Page Top

#14 I would rather call them "diaper heads"--my personal preference.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-03-25 08:49|| 2007-03-25 08:49|| Front Page Top

#15 The Prime Minister has ordered senior colleagues and civil servants to prepare to convene the COBRA emergency committee

COBRA Cabinet Office Briefing Room A

"You have your orders, 007"

Posted by Q 2007-03-25 08:53|| 2007-03-25 08:53|| Front Page Top

#16 How about "pinheads" instead?

Posted by gorb 2007-03-25 08:53|| 2007-03-25 08:53|| Front Page Top

#17 IMO: Blair's gonna do nada, zip, and zilch

dittos

Posted by RD 2007-03-25 13:40|| 2007-03-25 13:40|| Front Page Top

#18 Iranians don't wear kuffiah

Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-25 13:48|| 2007-03-25 13:48|| Front Page Top

#19 I'm getting really, REALLY tired of Iran. They definitely need to face the wrath of someone. I hope the US has the cojones to act, even if Britain doesn't. Iran declared war against the United States in 1979, and here we are, 28 years later, still trying to decide how to respond. Our entire government needs to be forced to step down, and someone with some brains put in their place.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-03-25 13:51|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-03-25 13:51|| Front Page Top

#20 Tough.

No problem. Thank goodness we live in a free country where we are at liberty to disagree. I just happen to feel that your arguments are of sufficiently high quality where they are degraded by name-calling. That's just my own read. Do not think for one second that I, too, don't often feel inclined to abuse these maggots with far more colorful language.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-25 15:21|| 2007-03-25 15:21|| Front Page Top

#21 Towelheads is rather childish. Towelhead fucks on the other hand...

The real problem here is not that they may or may not wear towels on their heads. As I see it, the real problem here is that they have heads.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-03-25 15:25|| 2007-03-25 15:25|| Front Page Top

#22 "I just happen to feel that your arguments are of sufficiently high quality where they are degraded by name-calling."

And I don't. So I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-03-25 15:34|| 2007-03-25 15:34|| Front Page Top

#23 Think of this as punctuation for the argument! :-)

Posted by gorb 2007-03-25 15:37|| 2007-03-25 15:37|| Front Page Top

#24 Yeah. What gorb said.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-03-25 15:45|| 2007-03-25 15:45|| Front Page Top

#25 S'alright. Let's just not allow it to deflect our arrows from their proper target.

Islam has gotta go. Sooner, not later. By violence more likely than not.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-25 16:00|| 2007-03-25 16:00|| Front Page Top

#26 The real problem here is not that they may or may not wear towels on their heads. As I see it, the real problem here is that they have heads.

Bravo, exceptionally well-written, Mike N.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-25 16:02|| 2007-03-25 16:02|| Front Page Top

#27 not too fan the flame too much, but I've always liked the term little sheet heads lol

Posted by Jan 2007-03-25 16:28|| 2007-03-25 16:28|| Front Page Top

#28 It does bother me that nothing is being done, and these "towelheads" are learning that they can do anything they want to without any reprocussions.

What will it be next, they will keep pushing and pushing. They need to be stopped and quickly.

I promote another learning curve, one of action. Blair starts taking out stategic sites until they are released. Like Steve I think it was said yesterday.

Posted by Jan 2007-03-25 16:53|| 2007-03-25 16:53|| Front Page Top

#29 "It does bother me that nothing is being done, and these [CENSORED] are learning that they can do anything they want to without any reprocussions."

Same here. It occurs to me that *ALL* of this trouble we've been having with Islam the last couple of decades is because we've reached such a highly refined level of "civilization" that the MMs and their ilk cannot but view it as weakness-- and they find the urge to rumble simply irresistable.

We, on the other hand, are having a truly terrible time wrapping our minds around the fact that what we are dealing with are primitive savages barely advanced beyond the Bronze Age: brutish, larcenous, superstitious and tribalistic. For all their superficially modern trappings, they may as well be wearing loincloths and boiling missionaries in pots.

They understand only force. And we've grown allergic to exercising it.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-03-25 17:07|| 2007-03-25 17:07|| Front Page Top

#30 Dave, please, no censorship, especially self-censorship. You're a better man than that and we both know it. I'll take the towelhead and diaperhead comments sooner than see this place censor itself. Somehow, I'm sure that was your explicit intent.

They understand only force. And we've grown allergic to exercising it.

How the f&%k is it that we can train all these excellent troops, build all of these superb weapons and yet not concommitantly assemble enough spine to put them to their intended use? America's economic and military preeminence are a direct byproduct of our superior governmental system and represent the absolute core of any moral authority we need to confront this enemy.

Aside from defeating Soviet communism, no finer example than Islam itself can be brought forth to demonstrate exactly why we built this military arsenal. Instead, confronted with clear and present danger we cower at the thought of unleashing these guardians of our very survival. This shit's gotta stop before we slit our own wrists in the attempt to better appease Islam.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-25 17:24|| 2007-03-25 17:24|| Front Page Top

#31 "Somehow, I'm sure that was your explicit intent."

Moi????? How could you possibly think...

"How the f&%k is it that we can train all these excellent troops, build all of these superb weapons and yet not concommitantly assemble enough spine to put them to their intended use?"

We had that conversation yesterday or the day before. It's the rot. Not necessarily its more extreme manifestations, like those, but the lower-level, more pervasive cultural insecurity that goes along with that shit.

It will have to be extirpated. Or very few of us alive today will have great-grandchildren.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-03-25 17:53|| 2007-03-25 17:53|| Front Page Top

#32 When my son was home several years ago, during his time off he worked at the recruiters office and visited his old high school while in his uniform.
I was so very proud of him and all his accomplishments that he was able to bring back to show and tell the younger kids at the school.
But the response of the parents and even some friends was horrible, how can you do that with his influence blah blah blah.
Later I learned how some of my friends protested at that very recruiters station, and were so happy about protesting and getting arrested. I told them that was where my son worked as a recruiter, and he just went on to say how he was brainwashed and how I was so misinformed.
The MSM is really hurting our country. The info I get from my son from being in it over there VS what you hear on the news, it's no wonder we have such nut jobs running around like this.
We need to get the truth out to the people. We're going to die of gangrene or the rot as you say, with our country breaking down from the inside.

And to have such a wonderful strong military only to be held back by all this wishy washy stuff kills me.
What can the ordinary person do here? I stand up to my friends, but now they have me labeled as brainwashed too because of my son. I've tried to reason with these "friends" but to no avail.
Sad that they don't see the light here.
I might add some of the kids of these friends have been in all kinds of trouble, but do you think they address that? No, instead they ignore their own family and go protest.
end rant

Posted by Jan 2007-03-25 19:23|| 2007-03-25 19:23|| Front Page Top

#33 Jan, I hear ya. Since 9/11 my circle of friends has changed almost 100%. The group I now consider friends no longer resembles the group I formerly considered friends. My list of friends is now much smaller and far more family like and I am a better man for it.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-03-25 19:47|| 2007-03-25 19:47|| Front Page Top

#34 Dave D.

I would like to congratulate you on your very mature observation that the Iranian Mullah's and their thugs run around with linens on their heads. The term "towel heads" so apptly applied brings instant and concise visualization of the individuals that are the subject of your initial comment.

I hope that others show respect and not come in to attempt to publicly criticize such concise free speech as being childish. Even though such individuals that do so may think such criticism makes them feel they are on a higher plane, it in reality, only makes them appear vain and "childish".

:-)

Like Bill the Cat once said, "When people are trying to piss me off, it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to extend my middle finger and tell them to bite me!"

Posted by Ho Chi Glager5496 2007-03-25 19:52|| 2007-03-25 19:52|| Front Page Top

#35 Jan, all you can do is avoid the subject with your friends if you want to keep them. They've demonstrated their mental limitations, and the fates of their children only prove it, sadly. Be proud that you've done so well with your own son. While you're at it, thank you for that and thank him, too, from all of us for his service.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-25 20:18|| 2007-03-25 20:18|| Front Page Top

#36 yes my choice in friends has been evolving.
It's just hard to see folks that I've been friends with for more than 25 some 30 years have such gravely different views on the world politics.
I must admit that I had similar views until my son joined, before 9/11, and to be more abreast of what was going on I started reading everything I could get my hands on, not just the MSM. I never used to be that well read of a person, listening to the TV for most all of the news.
So I guess I'm the one that changed, but thankfully so. I still have alot to learn, with alot to catch up on.

Posted by Jan 2007-03-25 22:23|| 2007-03-25 22:23|| Front Page Top

#37 Has anyone noticed that the islamo turbaned heads also have greasy unwashed face and a transparent mask of deceit about them?

Posted by Duh! 2007-03-25 22:36|| 2007-03-25 22:36|| Front Page Top

#38 Jan, just another Rantburger hoping that you would please thank your son for me. His courage and service to our country are priceless.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-25 23:30|| 2007-03-25 23:30|| Front Page Top

#39 HHHHHHHMMMMM, so iff CHINA allegedly reportedly wants US or Western recognition that NORTH KOREA is a VASSAL/TRIBUTARY STATE OF CHINA - you know, NorKor independence and sovereignty, NKies = UNDECLARED CHINESE? - dare IRAN wants similar or higher recognition vv IRAQ???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-25 23:44|| 2007-03-25 23:44|| Front Page Top

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