Bush Calls for Iran to Free U.K. Sailors

[Breeze54]

Bush Calls for Iran to Free U.K. Sailors

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6523535,00.html

Saturday March 31, 2007 10:16 PM

By DEB RIECHMANN

Associated Press Writer

CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) -

President Bush on Saturday called for the release of 15 British sailors and marines
being held by Iran, calling their capture by Tehran ``inexcusable behavior.''

``Iran must give back the hostages,'' Bush said.
``They're innocent, they did nothing wrong, and they were summarily plucked out of waters.''

The comments at a news conference with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were
the first from Bush on the capture, as Washington has taken a low-key approach so far out
of concern that more robust intervention might aggravate the situation and shake international
resolve on Iran's nuclear program.

Bush did not answer a question about whether the U.S. would react militarily if those captured
had been American. With the crisis in its second week, the president said he supports British
Prime Minister Tony Blair's efforts to find a diplomatic resolution.

He just had to open his big mouth!! What a MF!!
Somebody please put a sock in it! or a foot or... :grr:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. ....Or else?

[Cha]

3. OR else..

he'll huff and he'll puff and he'll blow their country apart.

[tularetom]

2. Well THAT should shake 'em up!

I don't think anyone is afraid of the boy king's tantrums and threats anymore.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

20. I dunno- his hissies sure as hell freak ME out!

Boy Blunder is capable of anything. ANYTHING.

[MGD]

4. Oh I can hardly wait for Ahmedinijihad's rebuttal.

:popcorn:

[Breeze54]

6. He's putting the sailors on trial for trespassing

according to my local news just now.

Iran President: U.K. Sailors Trespassed

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6523430,00.html

Saturday March 31, 2007 9:16 PM

AP Photo VAH101, VAH102, BAG122

By NASSER KARIMI

Associated Press Writer

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted Saturday that 15 captured British sailors had been seized
in Iranian waters, calling Britain and its allies ``arrogant'' for refusing to apologize, the country's
official news agency reported.

``The British occupier forces did trespass our waters. Our border guards detained them with skill and bravery.
But arrogant powers, because of their arrogant and selfish spirit, are claiming otherwise,'' IRNA quoted
Ahmadinejad as saying during a speech in the southeastern city of Andinmeshk.

``Instead of apologizing over trespassing by British forces, the world arrogant powers issue statements
and deliver speeches,'' Ahmadinejad told the crowd celebrating the Persian New Year holiday, IRNA said.

British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett urged Iran to resolve the crisis peacefully, saying London remains
open to dialogue.

The British sailors were detained by Iranian naval units March 23 while patrolling for smugglers near the
mouth of the Shatt al-Arab, a waterway that has long been a disputed dividing line between Iraq and Iran.
Britain insists that the service members were in Iraqi waters. Iran has been saying the Britons were in
Iranian waters and has demanded an apology.

Tehran appears intent on sending a message of strength as it faces mounting U.N. Nations sanctions over
its uranium enrichment program, which the U.S. and other nations suspect the Islamic Republic is using
to develop nuclear weapons.

On Thursday, Ahmadinejad accused Britain of trying to solve the crisis through propaganda and not diplomacy,
state TV reported.

An Iranian diplomat said earlier Saturday that the case had entered a legal phase, according to the news agency.

IRNA said on its Web site that Gholam-Reza Ansari, the Iranian ambassador to Russia, had told Russian television
Vesti-24 that, ``the case of the detention of British sailors has taken on a judicial form.''

[Truthiness Inspector]

8. Oh that's rich.

"On Thursday, Ahmadinejad accused Britain of trying to solve the crisis through propaganda and not diplomacy,
state TV reported."

As opposed to Iran, who is generating alleged letters from one of the sailors, and showing at least two of them on camera making statements under duress.

[Breeze54]

10. Yep, it's going to be

a pissing match. Reminds me of the last time.

[Kagemusha]

25. They're two peas in a pod.

Blair isn't going light on the propaganda either.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. ...and Iran calls back, "Hey! What about our dudes YOU kidnapped, you asshat?"

[RedCappedBandit]

7. Since when does Bush care who is innocent?

[DCKit]

9. Is Mahmoud Persian for "George"?

Oh God, sorry. I must be as stupid as the NeoCons who invaded Iraq by mistake.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

15. They do seem to be two sides of the same coin

Both socially conservative and both antagonistic.

[malaise]

11. He should talk

Send him and Blair to the Hague for their crimes.

[leftchick]

12. HELLLOOOOO!! What about the Iranians KIDNAPPED by the US???

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IC31Ak04.html

US silent on detained Iranians
By Khody Akhavi

WASHINGTON - As the Western media focus on the fate of 15 Britons detained for allegedly trespassing into Iranian waters, the status of five Iranian officials captured in a US military raid on a liaison office in northern Iraq on January 11 remains a mystery.

Even though high-level Iraqi officials have publicly called for their release, for all practical purposes, the Iranians have disappeared into the US-sanctioned "coalition detention" system that has been criticized as arbitrary and even illegal by many experts on international law.

Hours before US President George W Bush declared that they would "seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq", US forces raided what has been described as a diplomatic liaison office in the northern city of Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, and detained six Iranians, infuriating Kurdish officials in the process.

The troops took office files and computers, ostensibly to find evidence regarding the alleged role of Iranian agents in anti-coalition attacks and sectarian violence in Iraq. One diplomat was released, but the other five men remain in US custody and have not been formally charged with a crime.

"They have disappeared. I don't know if they've gone into the enemy combatant system," said Gary Sick, an Iran expert at Columbia University who served in the White House under president Jimmy Carter. "Nobody on the outside knows."

[Junkdrawer]

13. "Come on...We can't bomb you until you release the hostages...No Fair" n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. Iran has offered to exchange them for the Iranians we're holding. Shrub refused. Link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x544610

[madrchsod]

16. no one cares what george has to say

and Ahmadinejad is a puppet. is the world being run by petulant children?

[bdamomma]

23. I would like to answer your question about

petulant children, yes they are, and they have big dangerous toys that they want to use. Unbelieveable, but I wish W would shut his damn mouth, he has caused enough damage and murder.

[partylessinOhio]

17. Shut up! Chimp and Poodle! You have put the entire world at risk!

Shut the F up!

No more war. No more killing. No more slaughter of innocent women, children and old men. No more wounded and dead Americans.

We want no more of you and your poodle. Just go away!

[Wiley50]

18. Ahm-Mad-N-I-Jihad calls for Bush to Release Guantanamo Prisoners

What's fair for the Goose and all

[Colobo]

19. Ahmadinejad has some fans over here... I'm not one of them, by the way

Dude is seriously looking for trouble, and I will root against him if he finds it.

[Leopolds Ghost]

21. "they were summarily plucked out of waters"

:eyes:

...and that's no basis for a system of government, is it?

On Edit: Maybe if Bush had said something multisyllabic
to clarify how what Iran did was not the right thing to
do, it would help. Supreme executive power derives from
a mandate from the PEOPLE, not Watery tarts plucking
Brits out of unspecified waters.

[bdamomma]

22. is that *'s kiss of death.

[VP505]

24. If it

were not so serious for those Sailors it would be nothing short of "say what", to hear Bu$h running his mouth over something his admin has done time and again and in a much more serious way, i.e, rendition and torturing.

[DinahMoeHum]

26. SILLY LITTLE BOYS! All of you - Bush. Blair, Ahmadinejad.

SILLY LITTLE BOYS!

Shaking fists. Rattling sabers. Wagging their cocks around.

Yeah, whip 'em out and show us the length.

Now STFU you three - clean up your room and put away your toys.

SILLY LITTLE BOYS!

:argh::argh::argh: