Iran & 15 Sailors

Let's get one thing straight. I want the 15 captured navy personnel returned safely home. They are pawns in a game, sent out to fight an illegal war by Mr. A. Blair.

It's bad enough for their families knowing they've been sent out to fight Israel's wars for it, as cannon fodder in the truest sense, without the added worry of them being captured by Iran.

Right. Caveats out of the way.

Look at this scenario.

Ireland has been occupied by a foreign power. It's been blown to bits and the religious divide has been stirred up leading to a kind of Civil War. Let's say the invading army is a collection of Islamic States.

Millions of Irish have flooded into Britain as refugees leaving almost everything behind in their desperation to escape.

Murder, rape, unjust imprisonment... all this is happening in the newly "free" Ireland, delivered into the Islamic form of government. The Foreign countries involved celebrate Ireland's deliverance from Western decadence and the control of oligarchs and plutocrats. Some Irish have even formed their own government, though Protestant and Catholic parties are in the parliament, some have boycotted it, and those in there are the political wings of the armed militias.

Britain has sent in guerillas to fight the invaders while trying to make out it is not directly involved. A few Brits have even been caught - some say they were just businessmen or Brits with Irish relatives who happened to be in the country.

The Muslim countries now run the United Nations and the UN is based in Saudi Arabia. The invasion wasn't sanctioned by the UN, but the current occupation and "security" regime is.

meanwhile this new UN is thinking of levying sanctions against Britain. Britain doesn't have 'the bomb' but wants to expand its nuclear power stations because of global warming. The Muslim nuclear powers say Britain doesn't have that right and has strong armed the new UN to pass sanctions.

Now - the Royal Navy has found some Muslim sailors in the Irish Seas just a few miles off the Isle of Man.

Would they be in their right to defend Britain? Would we say "oh poor show, leave those brave defenders of Islamic law and government alone?"

No.

Chances are we'd be pouring money, arms and fighters into Ireland to help the Irish (imagine if Ireland was 'united' and the Protestants in Ulster were under occupation -- wouldn't that be kind of like the 'Marsh Arabs' of Southern Iraq whose natural ally is Iran?).

Does anyone out there get where I'm coming from Daddio?

Imagine your country or its near-neighbour were invaded.

Imagine you are an Arab or a Persian (Muslim or Christian) and the invader was acting on the behest of the Israeli-USA axis.

Would you say "oh poor show, leave the poor sailors alone?"

Anyone can produce paperwork, maps, satellite images etc. to justify where they were. The fact is that they shouldn't be there at all! Just as the Saudi Arabian navy has no right to be in Irish waters, let alone British ones.

Sometimes - in the fever-pitch of jingoism, led on by Blair, journalists and idiots - we lose sight of the basic facts.

No-one wants to see a single sailor, pilot or soldier die in the Middle East. But neither do we want to see a single civilian die.

This war, this upheaval, this suffering, this loss, this bereavement, this recruiting sergeant for insurgents has been planned, agreed and executed by Messers Blair and Bush.

We are concerned for the fate of 15 sailors.

But imagine how we'd feel if Dublin were ripped apart, with its civilians murdered. Detention camps set up in Cork and Kerry, with evidence of torture and rape in them. The Irish were now denied work, school and even water and electricity were at best unreliable.

HOW WOULD WE FEEL?

And those same invading murdering bastards were telling us that WE were the evil ones for wanting our own power supply, that WE were the evils ones for organising a conference debating the holocaust of the Armenians, that WE were the evil ones because some of our citizens were helping their Irish cousins, and even some Churchmen were urging Christians in Ireland to resist the invaders.

When you reverse the situation like this it becomes clear how the Iraqi and the Iranian people feel.

Thanks Tony Blair. Thanks George W. Bush.

Thanks for being murdering Zionist bastards.

The blood of innocents is on YOUR hands.

Now bring our troops home. Not a single one of them should have to die for your Zionist policy.

Don't blame Iran. Don't blame Iraqi resistance fighters. They are only doing what we would do if WE were invaded.

Time to stop the war now.