Iranian President pardons all 15 Sailors

[ProfJohn]

Originally posted by: jpeyton

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Well fvcking sign up, cowboy! Make the Brit government tell you all their top military secrets, go get captured and you show 'em how to keep their mouths shut.

:laugh:

Those sailors are the laughing stock of the military community right now. No self-respecting soldier would call what they did heroic.

And dying for their country in a meaningless action would have been heroric?

 

[International Machine Consortium]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Agreed, and those detained sailors look like idiots to boot.

Their confessions were supposedly "coerced", but there isn't a single mark on them. Sounds like they are just trying to save face for the British government (and doing a poor job at it).

Apparently blindfolds and threats of prison time are enough for them to give up the fleet to our enemies.

What happened to name, rank and serial number?

So "leaving marks" is now the gold standard when it comes to mistreatment of prisoners?

I like that standard because Water Board doesn't leave any marks, which means we can water board everyone we catch right?

The U.S. waterboards as part of SERE training sometimes. Used to anyway. Forced smoke inhalation is anpther popular method of coercion. It's not as fun as it sounds, btw.
Slapping around is not unheard of, which won't really leave marks but will scare the sh!t out of you since you don't know how far it might escalate.

 

[International Machine Consortium]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn

Originally posted by: jpeyton

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Well fvcking sign up, cowboy! Make the Brit government tell you all their top military secrets, go get captured and you show 'em how to keep their mouths shut.

:laugh:

Those sailors are the laughing stock of the military community right now. No self-respecting soldier would call what they did heroic.

And dying for their country in a meaningless action would have been heroric?

Read the thread, you look like a jackass. At least take a cursory look at what we're talking about before flying into a tizzy. Then report back. kthxby

 

[International Machine Consortium]

Now they're having them sell their stories to the media over there. More embarrassment. These are our allies? Wow. No wonder we're not doing well in Iraq.

Looks like some folks in Britain aren't exactly happy at how this situation is playing out. I agree with him, btw:

Colonel Bob Stewart, a former commander of British United Nations forces in Bosnia, said the official sanctioning of the media stories risked handing a propaganda victory to Iran. Warning that contradictory stories could emerge, Col Stewart said: ?The Iranians must be saying, ?We are very glad we released them because actually the British are going to self-destruct on this one?.?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ee431d54-e616-11db-9fcf-000b5df10621.html

This thing is quickly spinning out of control.