British troops refuse to invade Iran

[ordos45]

The other week you may remember stories about Iranian battalions going to their border with Iraq.  Well...they took a kilometer of land back.  As a result General Sanchez ordered British troops in the area to attack Iranian positions! 

Such an assault would have begun an open war with a nation that actually has WMDs, and isn't afraid to use them.  I want to know, was Sanchez acting hastily on his own, or was he under orders from Bush.  Anyhow, the border dispute has been handled diplomatically by the British, while their commanders on the ground were also negotiating with their Iranian counterparts.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/30/wiran30.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/06/30/ixportal.html

[nemafakei]

My goodness! That's atrocious behaviour!

[Dunenewt]

Damn, i was just about to post that.  Also the article says (well, it does in the paper), that the americans ordered the british to prevent russian forces from holding a position, to which the british commander replied, 'I'm not starting WW3 for you'.

[GUNWOUNDS]

If bush gets re-elected , Iran is gonna be sweating for 4 years... its like they have this huge Bull's Eye on them.

[Dunenewt]

You've changed your mind.  So it's not us who's after Iran now then?

could be possible i wouldnt put it past them.

[GUNWOUNDS]

You've changed your mind.

[Dunenewt]

What about the Australians, Poles, South Koreans etc?

[GUNWOUNDS]

What about the Australians, Poles, South Koreans etc?

they are coalition supporters... USA and Britain are coalition leaders.  I am sure you know that already.

[Dunenewt]

No, the coalition leaders were USA, UK, and Australia.

[Dante]

Damn, i was just about to post that.

[ordos45]

Yeah that incident in Kosovo was part of what hurt Clark's campaign in the Democratic Primaries.  For some reason we don't tend to support candidates who start world wars (unless it happens to be Bush it seems).

Still...if they had attacked Iran like ordered, we'd be in another war now.  *sighs*

[danielsh]

Still...if they had attacked Iran like ordered, we'd be in another war now.

[Andrew]

Shoot first, ask questions later. Good old trigger happy U.S.

Telling others to start wars. ::)

[GUNWOUNDS]

No, the coalition leaders were USA, UK, and Australia.

Oh really australia? .. If i remember correctly the US and UK were the ones who put the coalition together and contributed the most massive contributions both militarily and monetarily.

[Dunenewt]

Britain didn't send that many troops, we probably sent only a few more than Australia.  Spain was a coalition leader, as in The Three Amigos... but pulled out after Zapeto (sp?) became PM of Spain and Osama Bin Laden was appointed Foreign Secretary for his help in the elections...

[Dante]

Spain got out before it got messier. Smart Spain.

[nemafakei]

Offtopic, I know, but I want to correct an inaccuracy:

Zapatero.

And do remember that PP lost mostly because they lied two days before an election: Aznar stated that it was ETA when there was almost no evidence to support his claim. Zapatero could hardly renege on the PSOE manifesto promise to take troops out of Iraq, could he? Not also that the Spanish have doubled their committment to Afghansistan - far more relevant to Mr Bin Laden and Co.

[Ninja_Sher]

The hunters lock a target first and attacks nothing else till it is neutralised.

The shooters targets more than one target at a time.

I guess they do not want to be later. Eventually though they would fight Iran, Syria. A few centuries later N Korea ( wait for them to die out of starvation ). And then the rest of the world. And George Flye Bush ( the 5th Bush ) would be crowned as the new Emperor of the world ( or King of the world as many would say ).

[Dunenewt]

Thanks Nema I couldn't remember his name.