How can 60.6 Million Brits be so Stupid?

Some of ex-Captive Royal Navy

The British have been played like chumps. It’s called propaganda and British people act as if they’ve never seen anything like it. Iran committed an international crime against 15 Sailors and Marines of the Royal Navy by capturing and illegally holding them for 14 days under threats of imprisonment, torture, death or all three.

Then after forcing humiliating confessions and violating the Geneva Convention by using the 15 captives in humiliating and compromising videos, dressing them up and parading them in a dog and pony show before Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran finally after using the captives like utterly useless fodder then releases them back to their disgraced Country.

In this whole despicable affront to British national dignity not one peep of outrage from the British people against Iran.

No Brits just seem to be resigned to the fact that it was Blair’s and Bush’s fault that Iran violated Iraqi waters captured Royal military personnel and held them under threat and in violation of Geneva when the U.S.A. or the U.K. are not in conflict with Iran.

Now that the 15 captives have been released they tell a much different story of their captivity; blindfolds, bonds, isolation, clicking of cocked guns, psychological torture and foaming mouth bullying captors.

But to offset anything that the captives might say when they got home Iran took plenty of pictures that showed the “good treatment” of their most esteemed and honored guest.

Pictures that showed the captives playing, laughing, smoking and in good humor and then finally President Ahmadinejad’s sarcastically asked question to his about to be released prisoners, “Have you enjoyed your mandatory vacation?”

This was an international outrage! So why are the Brits so complacent when an act of war was committed against them?

Maybe the Brits believe Iran’s propaganda, maybe Brits believe that their apparent passive Royal Navy is incompetent too and did stray into Iranian waters.

Maybe the Brits believe that their armed forces deserved to be captured and threatened and subjected to humiliation.

Maybe the Brits believe the Iranian government over their own government that they were in the wrong and Iran was in the right. And so the question goes begging, HOW COULD 60.6 MILLION BRITS BE SO STUPID?

Britian, Iran and the Geneva Convention

British captive being used as a pawn

Where are all of the Geneva Convention experts when you need them? When Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay were in the news every message board pundit, every Internet hack and talking head were instant Geneva Convention analysts.

The outrage, the insult, the inhumanity that imprisoned Iraqis were subjected to was all against the Geneva Convention and someone should be brought on charges and tried before the International Court at the Hague ! Oh the righteous indiction throughout the United States hating world was palpable. America and Americans were in violation of the Geneva Convention!

In recent news Iran has captured 15 British Marines in disputed waters. The British say that they were in Iraqi waters and the Iranians claim that Britian military personal was in Iranian waters.

Leaving that issue just for a moment it is an undisputed fact that Iran is holding British military captives no one is disputing that.

It is also a fact that these hostages were forced to give various video and written confessions, denouncing their own government, and the women were force to dress in customary ways that were not their own.

I'm asking all of the Geneva Convention experts that condemned the American Government's treatment of imprisoned Iraqi terrorists, what does the Geneva Convention say about the treatment of captured military personnel, is Iran in violation of any Geneva Convention regulation concerning the handling of prisoners and why is my question the first in this regard?

Article 2 of the Geneva Convention says:

Prisoners of war are in the power of the hostile Power, but not of the individuals or corps who have captured them.

They must at all times be humanely treated and protected, particularly against acts of violence, insults and public curiosity.

Measures of reprisal against them are prohibited.

Does video confessions and using prisoners as pawns to point out locations on a map to show that they were in Iranian waters, in complete contradict of their Government, in violation of Article 2?

Article 3 of the Geneva Convention says:

Prisoners of war have the right to have their person and their honor respected. Women shall be treated with all the regard due to their sex.

Prisoners retain their full civil status.

Is forcing a British female Marine to wear customary Islamic head covering for women in violation of Article 3?

In America and Britian women are treated the same as men so why is the forced putting on of a veil, a sign of women's inferiority to men, not in violation of the Geneva Convention?

Here's a thought maybe there really aren't any experts regarding the Geneva Convention maybe all of the hate and heat directed toward Amerian concerning Abu Ghraid had little to do with violations of the Geneva Convention maybe all of that was just plain bias against America.

It had to be because if one is concerned about the Geneva Convention being violated wouldn't one be just as concerned now that Iran has apparently violated at least two articles and perhaps even more?

So where are the experts that were pointing out America's failings in this regard why aren't they demanding the just and immediate release of the Brits?

I wonder...

Russia Controls Iran's Nuclear Future

Now we know why the little mad puppet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can wag his little scrawny finger in the face of the world and threaten nuclear holocaust against everyone, Russia has been the hand in the back of this little mannequin. Russia is building Iran’s nuclear reactor.

Just think this whole threat to world peace could be resolved if Russia would stop helping Iran build it’s nuclear threat.

Ironically, Russia has stopped for the moment but why? Because Russia values world peace? Is it because Russia is a good and noble Country?
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No Russia who is the enabler for the Iranian President has stopped temporarily building because they didn’t get paid.

That’s right is all about the benjamins, all it took was for Iran not to show Russia the money and look mah, no Iranian Nuclear reactor.

This convoluted scenario is interesting because Russia is on the U.N. Security Council the same one that is negotiating or rather pleading with Iran to halt its nuclear ambitions and Russia openly supports Iran in the United Nations but if that wasn’t conflict of interest enough Russia is building the very nuclear reactor that the U.N. Security Council is supposed to be voting whether to sanction Iran for.

Such is what the United States has to put up with. The whole world has gone mad and they in turn blame the United States for their own insanity.

All of this clamor for war would be over tomorrow if Russia would tell Ahmadinejad, “We are not going to continue to build a nuclear reactor for you with which to threaten the world.” Russia does that and it’s over! No more hate and death to America, No more Islamic jihad, no more little bearded puppet acting as if he is in control of the strings.

No more I smell sulphur; I smell sulphur because without the threat of Iran Venezuela President Hugo Chavez suddenly loses his sense of smell.

The world should be putting tremendous pressure on Russia to discontinue building nuclear facilities in Iran. If Russia stopped building Iran’s nuclear reactor that act alone would bring peace and stability back to the Middle East.

Frankly it’s time for Russia, China, France, and Germany to stop exploiting the situation in the Middle East which is their indirect sideswipe at America.

If Middle Eastern terrorist are successful and America is defeated when America is gone none of them, Russia, China, France or Germany are as strong as America and a terrorist turn against them would not take long to defeat them too!

These countries are playing a dangerous game of one-upmanship against the U.S., a game which results will not benefit them as they intend if the U.S. is defeated by terrorism.

Russia must be convinced to stop aiding and abetting terrorist Iran, whether their motive is to make money or to indirectly come against the U.S. in revenge, for their cold war defeat, somehow Russia has to be convinced that their actions make the world less safe for everyone.