You miss the point. Seizing them was an act of war. Putting them on trial or otherwise mistreating them is a war crime.
The ball is in Tony Blair's court. He can play the Iranian's game, as Jimmy Carter did. Or he can go all in and call their bluff.
The kidnapped British soldiers
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You miss the point. Seizing them was an act of war. Putting them on trial or otherwise mistreating them is a war crime.
The ball is in Tony Blair's court. He can play the Iranian's game, as Jimmy Carter did. Or he can go all in and call their bluff.
When the Chinese seized the US airmen a few years ago, did the China declare war on the US?
No, in the long and short run the UK is royally humiliated and disgraced, 15 of its "bravest" are kidnapped in broad daylight without even attempting to fight back and the only thing the UK can do is beg the scumbags who did it, express their impotent outrage and cancel a few visas for Iranian businessmen. In the long and short run the entire world will know that they can spit in the face of the UK (and entire Western Europe for that matter) and get away with it.
Long live the queen!!!
If humiliation and torture are one of the same, as deemed by the radical left, then this woman is obviously being tortured.
we exterminated the native americans. we institutionalized slavery of africans. we pardoned nazi and japanese war criminals responsible for the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, if they agreed to work for us after WW2. we empowered blood thirsty dictators who massacred their people in south america if they agreed to be not be communist. we certainly do not have a track record of valuing human life very high. how much is 3,245 american lives worth? is it worth control of iraqi oil? our government thinks so.
let's be honest. we arent exactly angels ourselves. and to say that western countries are more "civilized" is simply racist.
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as demonstrated by the life of the hundreds of thousands dead Iraqis attributable to the current Iraq war...
Who said that all the prisoners who were tortured in Abu Graib were terrorists? You have definite proof about that?
Do you have definite proof that the British soldiers were not in Iranian waters?
See Trader is a perfect example of the ignorance that permeates the muslim ranks. However outlandish the news item is if it portrays America or Isreal negatively, it must be true.
All the muslims cry that their leaders are corrupt and oppressing them but they in turn, they believe every spoonfed lie they are told.
"Few Western news outlets give credence to Iran's claim that the British had strayed 500 meters into Iranian waters. The Telegraph says that GPS coordinates released by the Ministry of Defense show that their troops were well outside of Iranian territory. What's more, according to the BBC, Iran at first claimed that the capture occurred at one set of coordinates, and when it was pointed out that this was in Iraqi waters, they gave a second reading, this time in Iranian territory. "
Well, as far as I can tell the kidnapped Brit isn't "living in Iran" nor is she a muslim nor an Iranian citizen.
If we took a burqua off of a muslim women and paraded her face on TV there would be absolute outrage by the crazies.
They riot over a cartoon for god sakes, why do you believe these are rational clear thinking people?
Muslims rational? Ha Ha, good one. Shit i can't stop laughing.
As for the Brits, Tony Blair and his cronys have been an embarrasment to the uk people for quite a while now, and their european counterparts are no better.
They are lying, corrupt, cowards. The lot of them.
Churchill will be turning in his grave.