Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Iran Rattles Saber, rd. VII, possibly war

Story: "Iran attacked and seized control of a Romanian oil rig working in its Persian Gulf waters this morning one week after the Iranian government accused the European drilling company of ``hijacking'' another rig.

An Iranian naval vessel fired on the rig owned by Romania's Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP) in the Salman field and took control of its radio room at about 7:00 a.m. local time, Lulu Tabanesku, Grup's representative in the United Arab Emirates said in a phone interview from Dubai today.

``The Iranians fired at the rig's crane with machine guns,'' Tabanesku said. ``They are in control now and we can't contact the rig.'' The Romanian company has 26 workers on the platform, he said.

Iran, which holds the world's second-largest oil and gas reserves, is due to respond today to a European Union-led offer of incentives aimed at persuading it to halt uranium enrichment activities that are crucial to its nuclear program."

Think of Iran what you will, but this is theft. Just plain stealing from a smaller nation, and should be cause for War from the free world. But no, we're going to sit here and use the 'diplomatic circles' to stop the largest Nazi government in the world.
This theft, and the refusual to stop the nuclear weapons program, is why we should have taken Iran out last week.

5 comments:

Matt said...

Last week? We might have moved sooner in my opinion.

RobertDWood said...

Yeah, but if we had been coordnated with the strikes by Isreal, the effect would have been better.

Mercy Now said...

You know, I say that the next person who says that we should continue to use diplomatic talks, I'm going to steal his car and see if he will continue to talk to me or if he's going to call the police. If he's true to his words, then he would continue to use diplomatic means which means I can continue to steal his belongings.

TheEarthCanBeMoved said...

I like it.

RobertDWood said...

Right. Or, put a bomb in her car with a detonation code triggered by a cell phone, call him as she's driving down the free way, and start negotiating about when to blow it up.