Should/Will Britain invade Iran?

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:03 pm

Fly a few planes that are kitted out with loudspeakers over the suburbs of Tehran, belting out - "You're next, and you know you are". That should cause sufficient unrest amongst the locals.

CAPSLOCK · Post by **CAPSLOCK** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:23 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:Fly a few planes that are kitted out with loudspeakers over the suburbs of Tehran, belting out - "You're next, and you know you are". That should cause sufficient unrest amongst the locals.

Works for me

finlayson · Post by **finlayson** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:11 pm

hisroyalgingerness wrote: best bet is to get some form of intelligence on where they are and storm the feck

If I were the Iranians I wouldn't be holding them all in the same place. You might get to one of them but then you have to get out again. You can't exactly land a Chinook in down town Tehran. They aren't some tin-pot African reigime.
As soon as word spread of any rescue effort the others would probably be marched out for a bullet in the back of the head.

blurred · Post by **blurred** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:50 am

In response to the question(s) posed in the topic title - definitely not and definitely not. Anyone who would recommend taking on an entire nation of martyrs needs their fecking heads looking at.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:56 am

Someone hide Andranik

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:56 am

Hoolio wrote:We'd bray em anyway. Send Andy McNab in. He's always got an opinion.

(For what it's worth, I believe they'll release them when it's proven they were illegally kidnapped)

They'd catch him in no time, he is the spit of Sharpe, he wouldn't last long.

davroduk · Post by **davroduk** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:16 pm

Unfortunately many people still believe that we are some kind of superpower in the world.

WE ARE NOT...

We are a small Island who many many years ago were an Empire.
We are fighting on too many fronts at the moment, and I know from personnal experience that we are taking a heavy toll in Afghanistan and Iraq. (75% of the casualties never get reported)

If every man, woman and child "invaded Iran" we would all just fit into a small corner of the Country unnoticed.

cowdrill · Post by **cowdrill** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:18 pm

^ size isnt everything

anyway if it were down to me i would say let em' go by tomorrow evening or we'll nuke your mo'foin asses

CAPSLOCK · Post by **CAPSLOCK** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:37 pm

Theres a lot of sense posted on this thread, but

If they kill the girl tomorrow, will you all post the same

Methinks not

And appeasing the feckers aint an option

And duk, we are a superpower

The Yanks will steam in given the nod

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:44 pm

davroduk wrote:Unfortunately many people still believe that we are some kind of superpower in the world.

WE ARE NOT...

We are a small Island who many many years ago were an Empire.
We are fighting on too many fronts at the moment, and I know from personnal experience that we are taking a heavy toll in Afghanistan and Iraq. (75% of the casualties never get reported)

If every man, woman and child "invaded Iran" we would all just fit into a small corner of the Country unnoticed.

If every man woman and child in Iran were grouped together you could probably fit them inside Tehran's borders. They ain't all terrorists.

davroduk · Post by **davroduk** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:39 pm

CAPSLOCK wrote:Theres a lot of sense posted on this thread, but

If they kill the girl tomorrow, will you all post the same

Methinks not

And appeasing the feckers aint an option

And duk, we are a superpower

The Yanks will steam in given the nod

How are we a Superpower ??????

We got Nukes.
We would never ever use them.

CAPSLOCK · Post by **CAPSLOCK** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:43 pm

So you don't think the good ol' US will wade in if encouraged?

Don't talk balls, man

cowdrill · Post by **cowdrill** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:07 am

bomb some sense into em'

InsaneApache · Post by **InsaneApache** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:23 am

No. We should not go to war in Iran. The question should be, what are we doing in Iraqi waters in the first place?

You see Mr. 'Gauleiter' Blair, when you go around formenting wars by being a bit of a fibber, you might get a bit more than you bargained for. Boys and wolves come to mind.

Let's hope the lads and lass come home safely.

mummywhycantieatcrayons · Post by **mummywhycantieatcrayons** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:26 am

CAPSLOCK wrote:Theres a lot of sense posted on this thread, but

If they kill the girl tomorrow, will you all post the same

Methinks not

And appeasing the feckers aint an option

And duk, we are a superpower

The Yanks will steam in given the nod

The most worrying thing is not the fate of these 15 people, as appalling as this situation is.

Before Mussolini and Hitler ever did anything too serious on the international scene, they did quite a bit of testing the water first - a few stunts just to test the resolve of the international community so they could predict more accurately what would happen when the stakes were higher. Of course what they discovered was that the fledgling League of Nations had no teeth at all.

For me, and I say this without really understanding the complex mechanics of how Iran is run, this incident could well be a precursor to more serious activities in the future. As such, CAPS is right when he says that appeasement is not an option now.

On the other hand, as Finlayson says above, storming an urban Tehran location would be impossible. I can think of no military option that wouldn't deliver a net loss of more than 15 lives. Full scale war with Iran might happen at some future point, but if it does, it won't be over 15 people.

All of which seems to leave the options looking pretty limited. As vacuous as it sounds, 'firm diplomacy' is just about all we can do.

CAPSLOCK · Post by **CAPSLOCK** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:49 pm

InsaneApache wrote:No. We should not go to war in Iran. The question should be, what are we doing in Iraqi waters in the first place?

You see Mr. 'Gauleiter' Blair, when you go around formenting wars by being a bit of a fibber, you might get a bit more than you bargained for. Boys and wolves come to mind.

Let's hope the lads and lass come home safely.

What we were asked to do by the UN?

Zulus Thousand of em · Post by **Zulus Thousand of em** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:28 am

davroduk wrote:we are taking a heavy toll in Afghanistan and Iraq. (75% of the casualties never get reported)

I don't disagree with the rest of your sentiments but I would like to see some evidence to back up this statement.

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:41 am

Batman wrote:Someone hide Andranik

pleased he sneaked on the pitch unnoticed yesterday

Henrik's fan club · Post by **Henrik's fan club** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:40 am

There were a few chants of 'We want our sailors back' from the ESL

bobo the clown · Post by **bobo the clown** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:50 am

Zulus! Thousand of 'em! wrote:
davroduk wrote:we are taking a heavy toll in Afghanistan and Iraq. (75% of the casualties never get reported)

I don't disagree with the rest of your sentiments but I would like to see some evidence to back up this statement.

If you mean Afghans's or Iraqi's .... you may be right.

I don't think we could wash over Brit's or Yanks who die. There's usually a bit of a fuss, in case you haven't noticed.

Or maybe we send out family-less orphans who no-one would miss.

The US would be only too willing to deal with Iran ... excpet they've hardly been successful with Iraq, yet, now have they ???

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