Getting a little Churchillian: Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday that Britain would not negotiate over British sailors and marines held hostage by Iran. In an interview with ITV News, Blair again called for the unconditional return of the 15……

You beat me to it. ;)

Excellent posts recently, btw.

Imagine what the extortion will be like when they finally get those little nukes they’re busy as beavers trying to create.

But that’s ok, congresscritters. Go ahead and roll over with your tail between your legs and offer them your tender belly. I hope your approval ratings fall even more, you traitorous collection of overwhelmingly democrat cowards.

Nobody is going to do anything about it. It is bluster to puff up the price of oil and generate some extra cash for the Iranians and it appears to have worked. But if you see the UK go to the UN Security Council or call an emergency meeting of NATO, I think the Iranians would have some reason to worry.

Exactly. Those ships were already in the area. It is theater on the part of Iran. Oil went over $65 a barrel today. Mission accomplished on the part of the Iranians, it would seem.

ABC News: U.S. carriers sent “hastily” to Persian Gulf after sailors kidnapped

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/03/27/irans-terror-navy/
Bush should station a Carrier group just inside Iraqi waters along the Iranian boarder. I bet the Iranian incursions into Iraqi waters would end immediately. Bush needs to stand up to the maniacs running Iran and say “Enough is enough!. Enter these waters at your own risk!”

RedinBlueCounty on March 27, 2007 at 2:16 PM

Damn, looks like they took my advice. :)

What did they do…BEAM them over?

Or, I would gladly foot the bill for 12 or 13 .50 cal rounds for an appropriate target inside tehran’s mullah’s compound.

tormod on March 28, 2007 at 9:41 AM

I’ll match your contribution..

windows of a sporting goods store and looted boxes of shoes

Talking about a riot in france.

Hmmmm…let’s see…If I wanted to piss off someone with a foot fetish…

I KNOW, GET A B-52 AND BOMB TEHRAN WITH JUST THE LEFT SHOE(100,000,000 1/2 PAIRS), 3 OR 4 TIMES…OUGHTA GET THEIR GOAT…OR SHEEP. Just a thought.

Or, I would gladly foot the bill for 12 or 13 .50 cal rounds for an appropriate target inside tehran’s mullah’s compound.

provocative rhetoric can only be “counterproductive.”

A quote from the Iranian new agency.

Kidnapping people can also be counterproductive. They alway have a threat.

How about no rhetoric and the Brits use a “counterproductive” military strike.

My understanding of past History is that if you were to punch an Englishman in the nose, he is going to punch you right back, and most likely put you in the freaking hospital. Historically speaking, Britain is one of the least-wussiest nations of the past few hundred years. This is/was the Nation that America was spawned from. God help us all if England wusses out now.

The trick is to convince the Manchester fans that the Iranians root for Arsenal….

I, unfortunately, compared Ahmedinejad with a body part we are all familiar with and in doing so got a reasonable post sent to the dumper. Oh well, I knew sometime or another, one of my counterparts out here was bound to hit the nail on the head.

These aircraft carrier groups, no matter how advanced, can only go so fast; therefore, for them to even be in the region, much less at a certain coordinate, was planned not days or weeks, but rather more likely months ago if these are merely exercises, and even if not, they’re only a few knots out of their planned way.

Thank you for your attention.

For the record, based on the wording here, if you believe 2 Carrier Strike Groups and 2 Expeditionary Strike groups somehow teleported into the gulf in 48 hours… you get a cookie.

It’s quite possible they were already there…. what with a couple of wars going on and all.

I wish I could agree Cross. Most of those 26 countries have teeny tiny little P.C. militaries because for the last 60 years they’ve had the U.S. Military there to protect them. So they spend all that defense money on multi-culti socialist programs and welfare checks for muslim immigrants who now infest their cities. True, some NATO nations have troops in Afghanistan, but even that is alot for them.

I think we’ll see U.S., U.K., Australian and Canadian naval, air and marine forces doing something about this mess. But the Fwenchy Fwenchmen will do nothing with their one carrier “Little Chucky”. The Germans? Too guilt ridden. The Belgians? Too small, too lefty. The Dutch? Too busy in Afganistan. The Turks? Not even on our side anymore. The Greeks? Too busy almost going to war with Turkey. Lichtenstien? HAHAHA! The former Eastern Bloc nations? Trying to catch up to the West and modernize their old Soviet equipped forces. The Poles MIGHT show up too, but it’s pretty much gonna be the English speaking countries who once again will save the rest of the world from a crazy dictator bent on a war of epic proportions.

And here we are, at a crossroads where we can show them strength, or weakness (read Cut-and-Run) and our illustrious CongressPEOPLE choose to show their yellow plumage.

Is it any wonder that these people are emboldened?

…crickets playing the Vienna Waltz quietly in the background, so as to not offend….

Although relatively speaking, our carriers are fast, they’re not THAT fast. They were scheduled to be in the general area a LONG time ago.

That said, I believe Ahmadickhead is stealing a page from Kim Jung Il’s playbook and playing it for all it’s worth.

Either that, or Khamaneiac is re-asserting his supreme command of all things Iranian, and doing the same.

Can you say: ANAL RETENTIVE?

Hugh Hewitt interviews House of Commons member Brooks Newmark on England’s rather tepid response (so far at least) to her 15 sailors kidnapped by Iran and concludes, “Where is Margaret Thatcher when you need her?” And speaking of which, for……

This action is unprovoked and illegal and if those troops are placed on trial, against the Geneva conventions. Iran has absolutely no legal ground to stand on and isn’t in a position to withstand an attack from 26 countries at the same time. And those would be 26 countries whose security they have been directly threatening with their nuclear program and intermediate range missiles. Getting NATO together for a party in Iran might be a little easier than in Afghanistan where there is little perception of a direct threat from Afghanistan to Europe.