Iran

So, the terrorists have taken hostages again. In case you hadn't heard, 5 days ago, Iran siezed 15 British service members in Iraqi waters, claiming they were actually in Iranian waters.

The GPS records indicate that the boat was clearly 1.7 nautical miles inside IRAQI waters. Quoting CNN now:

"Earlier, the British Ministry of Defense gave what it said was proof that the British ship carrying the sailors and marines never strayed into Iranian waters.

British Vice Adm. Charles Style said the global positioning system on the ship proves the vessel was "clearly" 1.7 nautical miles inside Iraqi waters and that the boat was "ambushed" by the Iranian forces.

Iran insists the ship was inside its territorial waters and, according to Style, provided a map with coordinates on Saturday in attempts to prove the point.

Blair said those coordinates actually "turned out to confirm they were in Iraqi waters," and Iraq has supported that position.

Iran on Wednesday provided different coordinates that placed the vessel inside Iranian waters.
The "change of coordinates," Style said, "is hard to legitimate."

Even if the ship had somehow strayed into Iranian waters, Beckett said, "under international law, warships have sovereign immunity in the territorial sea of other states."

"The very most Iran would've been entitled to do if they considered our boats were breaching the rules on innocent passage would've been to require the ship to leave their territorial waters immediately," the foreign secretary explained."

I look forward to the day Iran finishes its nuclear aspirations and Israel sends them back to the stone age. My only regret is that we won't have the cojones to do it first. Iran disgusts me. They represent everything that is soulless and wrong.

Aloha.