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Atma
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8/1/2006 5:10 PM
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Published 1:12 pm PDT Tuesday, August 1, 2006
LOS ANGELES - British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday issued a stern warning that Syria and Iran will face serious consequences if they continue working to destabilize the Middle East -- from Lebanon to Iraq.
In a prepared speech to be delivered Tuesday afternoon, Blair stopped short of saying the two nations could face military action. But he said: "We need to make clear to Syria and Iran that there is a choice: come into the international community and play by the same rules as the rest of us - or be confronted.
"Their support of terrorism, their deliberate export of instability, their desire to see wrecked the democratic prospect in Iraq is utterly unjustifiable, dangerous and wrong," the prime minister said the prepared text for his speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. "If they keep raising the stakes, they will find they have miscalculated."
Meanwhile, Blair heaped blame on Iran- and Syria-backed Hezbollah guerrillas and Islamic extremists, saying their incursions into Israel were part of a calculated campaign to provoke a massive Israeli military response.
The idea, Blair said, was to leave the world with images of gutted Lebanese cities to stir outrage - thus drowning out moderate Muslim voices and exploiting the tragedy to spread an "arc of extremism" across the Middle East.
"The purpose of the provocation that began the conflict was clear," Blair said of Hezbollah guerrillas crossing the border from Lebanon and attacking and kidnapping Israeli troops. "It was to create chaos, division and bloodshed, to provoke retaliation by Israel that would lead to Arab and Muslim opinion being inflamed, not against those who started the aggression but against those who responded to it."
The crisis in Lebanon, now more than three-weeks old, has caused more than 800,000 Lebanese to flee their neighborhoods and 100,000 are still believed trapped in combat zones, United Nations relief officials have reported.
In the wake of civilian deaths from air raids - targeting Hezbollah - that reduced southern Lebanon neighborhoods to rubble, the Israelis declared a hiatus in major air strikes and briefly curtailed fighting.
But Monday, with military clashes and bombing continuing, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel had no intention of ending its fight against Hezbollah in the near future. Meanwhile, frightened citizens in northern Israel continue to hide out in sweltering bomb shelters as Hezbollah militants keep firing hundreds of rockets across the border.
In his prepared remarks Tuesday, Blair said the television images of gutted buildings and wounded, dead and terrified citizens in southern Lebanon was exactly what Hezbollah wanted to provoke - for the world to see.
He charged that Hezbollah, along with Hamas militants in the Gaza strip, killed and kidnapped small units of Israeli troops in hope of provoking a "massive retaliation by Israel."
"The opportunity passed to Reactionary Islam and they seized it, first in Gaza, then in Lebanon," Blair said. "They knew what would happen. Their terrorism would provide massive retaliation by Israel. Within days, the world would forget the original provocation and be shocked by the retaliation.
Blair, after arriving for his U.S. tour, held a 90-minute meeting with President Bush on June 28 in which the two leaders announced they would submit a plan to end the hostilities between Israel and Lebanon.
They publicly endorsed a concept calling for the insertion of an international peacekeeping force between Israeli troops and Hezbollah guerrillas. Meanwhile, they said the Lebanese military was to move into the southern region of the country controlled by Hezbollah.
But Israel, hoping to drive Hezbollah far from the border and end its ability to launch missiles into the Jewish state, has shown little interest in pulling back from its military campaign.
Blair said he has been shocked by the carnage on he's seen on television from Lebanon where Israeli bombs and missiles targeting Hezbollah have also killed numerous innocent civilians, including women and children.
"I, and any halfway sentient human being, regards the loss of civilian life in Lebanon as unacceptable, grieves for that nation, is sickened by its plight and wants the war to stop now," Blair said.
But he said Israel couldn't stand idle as its soldiers were kidnapped over the borders of Lebanon and Gaza and Hezbollah rained "rockets indiscriminately at the civilian population in northern Israel."
Blair also assailed Iran for the enabling war and bloodshed in Lebanon and Israel by providing financing and weapons to Hezbollah guerillas in Lebanon and Hamas militants in the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
[link to www.sacbee.com]
First Bush points the finger at Iran for helping Hezbollah. Now Blair is warning of 'consequences'. Can you see the writing on the wall?
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acid
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8/1/2006 5:10 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
yeah you go blair - that should tell em !
im out of here - trinity has turned this site into something which i have no interest in , respect to the others who have decided to leave also - adios |
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Atma
User ID: 117053
8/1/2006 5:14 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
"The purpose of the provocation that began the conflict was clear," Blair said of Hezbollah guerrillas crossing the border from Lebanon and attacking and kidnapping Israeli troops. "It was to create chaos, division and bloodshed, to provoke retaliation by Israel that would lead to Arab and Muslim opinion being inflamed, not against those who started the aggression but against those who responded to it." Quoting: Atma
Can't say I really disagree with that. |
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b|eh
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8/1/2006 5:19 PM
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Tony Blair looks like howdy-duty.. When Blair talks you can barely see Bush's lips move.  |
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Atma
User ID: 117053
8/1/2006 5:22 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
When Blair talks you can barely see Bush's lips move. Quoting: b|eh
I think Blair is a very polished speaker.
Bush talks the way he does because Cheney's arm is up his ass moving his lips. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 91701
8/1/2006 5:51 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
YA THINK THEY WILL SHOW A PICTURE OF ASSAD AN THE IRANIAN PRESIDENTS HEAD AFTER THEY ARE KILLED LIKE THEY DO ALL THE TERRORIST IN IRAQ LOL |
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Common Sense
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8/1/2006 5:57 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
Someone should warn Blair of his consequences. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 122437
8/1/2006 6:19 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
This truly show's that he sincerily beliefs that we are all sheeps and stupid and dont know what's going on, " first of all " the kidnappings of the soldiers occured after israel soldiers slaughtered a whole family at the beach, second of all this clearly proofs to me " that the puppetmasters have yet again spined these two foolies bush and blair into submission. |
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AmyLi
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8/1/2006 6:22 PM
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It now appears that Bush and Blair are both making the same type of rants towards Iran and Syria, that they made to Iraq before the invasion. |
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Wul
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8/1/2006 6:22 PM
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Someone should warn Blair of his consequences. Quoting: Common Sense
The consequences are another four dead British soldiers doing their duty for.......emmm what were they doing it for again? |
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Anonymous Coward
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8/1/2006 6:29 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
The Omega Institute (OI), which works closely with the Institute for Policy Research for Development (IPRD), has learned from Israeli and Palestinian sources that just prior to the current crisis, senior Hamas leaders were in active dialogue with Israeli religious leaders in a round of bilateral peace negotiations. Israeli negotiators included Rabbi Menachem Froman, former deputy leader and co-founder of the Israeli Settler movement Gush Khatif; Rabbi David Bigman, head of the liberal religious Kibbutz movement Yeshiva at Ma’ale Gilboa; and Yitzhak Frankenthal, founder of the Arik Institute. Ongoing negotiations had resulted in a breakthrough peace “understanding”, which was to be announced at a press conference in Jerusalem to mark the launching of an extraordinary peace initiative. Israeli Prime Minister Olmert had been briefed extensively about the initiative by Frankenthal. Also due to attend the conference were Khaled Abu Arafa, the Palestinian Cabinet Minister for Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhamed Abu Tir, senior Hamas Member of the Palestinian Parliament, and other senior Palestinian delegates.
The meeting was to announce a joint Israeli-Palestinian call for the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit who had been abducted by Hamas in Gaza, along with proposals for the beginning of the release of all Palestinian prisoners. These measures were to precipitate unprecedented new peace negotiations on a framework peace agreement, drawn on the 1967 borders. The presence of Palestinian Cabinet Officers and senior Israeli religious leaders in contact with the Prime Minster was to underline the seriousness of this peace proposal on both sides.
Just hours before the meeting was due to start, the Israeli Shin Bet internal Security Service arrested Abu Tir and Abu Arafa and warned them not to attend the meeting, under threats of detention. The meeting, which offered a major opportunity to obtain Shalit’s release and launch a new framework for peace, was thrown into disarray. The next day, the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) invaded Gaza, and the day after both Abu Tir and Abu Arafa were abducted by Israeli forces, along with a third of the Palestinian Cabinet, provoking a predictable escalation of violence.
Israel simultaneously began conducting covert incursions on to Lebanese territory, provoking Hizbollah’s capture of two IDF soldiers. Credible sources confirm that the soldiers were not abducted on Israeli territory, but inside Lebanon. Like the scuppered peace negotiations, Western officials have ignored this, and misinformed the media. However, some reports corroborate the sources. Israeli officials, for instance, informed Forbes (12.7.06) that “Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers during clashes Wednesday across the border in southern Lebanon, prompting a swift reaction from Israel.”
“The revelations show that Palestinian and Lebanese actors were not principally responsible for the escalation of the current conflict”, said OI Director Graham Ennis. “Contrary to the misinformation disseminated by the Whitehouse and Whitehall, Israel vetoed unprecedented peace proposals that would have initiated a promising new framework for serious negotiations, and went on to provoke Palestinian and Lebanese groups into retaliations, that now threaten to escalate into a dangerous regional conflict.”
[link to www.gnn.tv] |
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Anonymous Coward
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8/1/2006 6:32 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
"But he [Blair]said Israel couldn't stand idle as its soldiers were kidnapped over the borders of Lebanon and Gaza and Hezbollah rained "rockets indiscriminately at the civilian population in northern Israel."
Except that the Israeli soldiers were in Lebanon at the time of the capture. Soldiers on foreign soil conducting a mission are not kidnapped, they are captured. Between Isreal shelling a family on the beach and their incursions into Lebanon Israel has instigated this war, and the Lebanese people are made to suffer. Next stop, more propaganda, more lies, more suffering by innocent civilians because of Israel. |
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Anonymous Coward
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8/1/2006 6:35 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
cherrio pip pip nuke the terrorist an be done with them.they bore me now.cherrio its tea time |
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Tomek
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8/1/2006 6:36 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
it is wery dificult to cross the boarder to catch 2 soldiers on the side of the other country .
Blair I hope you dont lie ? |
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Grizzled Old Goat
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8/1/2006 6:37 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
"The purpose of the provocation that began the conflict was clear," Blair said of Hezbollah guerrillas crossing the border from Lebanon and attacking and kidnapping Israeli troops. "It was to create chaos, division and bloodshed, to provoke retaliation by Israel that would lead to Arab and Muslim opinion being inflamed, not against those who started the aggression but against those who responded to it."
Can't say I really disagree with that. Quoting: Atma
Good - Smart |
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Anonymous Coward
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8/1/2006 6:39 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
What about ranting the same way against the IDF continuos spread of terror in the region?? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 122883
8/1/2006 6:39 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
we have nuke subs floating of their coasts and they dont even know it.
Sunburns can do no good against them. Nuke tipped tomahawks ready to hit tehran. :southparkw: |
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Wul
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8/1/2006 6:42 PM
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we have nuke subs floating of their coasts and they dont even know it.
Sunburns can do no good against them. Nuke tipped tomahawks ready to hit tehran. :southparkw: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 122883
Iran has torpedo's that top 220 miles an hour, say how fast are your submarines? |
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Tomek
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8/1/2006 6:42 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
Someone should warn Blair of his consequences. Quoting:
Yes I think the same .
I read the statmetn of the Russian ministry about Israel action in the Lebanon .
the second is that I didnt had a hope that Hezbollah will not answer in the next days , but I hoped that Israel will be trying to go back form this action of the war but Israel dont think to go back
it can mean only one , the next days will be dangerous for all of us . |
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Ishtahota
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8/1/2006 6:42 PM
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Is this possibly why they went to red alert today? [link to godlikeproductions.com]
Just a Thought,
Ishtahota
Live Long, Laugh Often, Love Much! |
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Grizzled Old Goat
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8/1/2006 6:43 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
"The purpose of the provocation that began the conflict was clear," Blair said of Hezbollah guerrillas crossing the border from Lebanon and attacking and kidnapping Israeli troops. "It was to create chaos, division and bloodshed, to provoke retaliation by Israel that would lead to Arab and Muslim opinion being inflamed, not against those who started the aggression but against those who responded to it."
Can't say I really disagree with that. Quoting: Grizzled Old Goat
I agree - an obvious gambit to stir up trouble. But to what end? Just for bad Israeli PR? Seems like there was some miscalculation or there's more to the story. |
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Anonymous Coward
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8/1/2006 6:54 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
we have nuke subs floating of their coasts and they dont even know it.
Sunburns can do no good against them. Nuke tipped tomahawks ready to hit tehran. :southparkw:
Iran has torpedo's that top 220 miles an hour, say how fast are your submarines? Quoting: Wul
I certainly hope the Iranian navy isn't as fearsome as the mighty Medina Division of the Republican Gaurd!  |
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Wul
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8/1/2006 6:58 PM
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we have nuke subs floating of their coasts and they dont even know it.
Sunburns can do no good against them. Nuke tipped tomahawks ready to hit tehran. :southparkw:
Iran has torpedo's that top 220 miles an hour, say how fast are your submarines?
I certainly hope the Iranian navy isn't as fearsome as the mighty Medina Division of the Republican Gaurd!
Its GUARD [link to www.tfd.com]
Remind me how many dead British and American soldiers there are after the war was "won"? |
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Anonymous Coward
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8/1/2006 7:01 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
we have nuke subs floating of their coasts and they dont even know it.
Sunburns can do no good against them. Nuke tipped tomahawks ready to hit tehran. :southparkw:
Iran has torpedo's that top 220 miles an hour, say how fast are your submarines?
I certainly hope the Iranian navy isn't as fearsome as the mighty Medina Division of the Republican Gaurd!
Its GUARD [ link to www.tfd.com]
Remind me how many dead British and American soldiers there are after the war was "won"?
I don't get your point.  |
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Anonymous Coward
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8/1/2006 7:05 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
yeah you go blair - that should tell em ! Quoting: acid
asshole |
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Anonymous Coward
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8/1/2006 7:06 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
When Blair talks you can barely see Bush's lips move.
I think Blair is a very polished speaker.
Bush talks the way he does because Cheney's arm is up his ass moving his lips. Quoting: Atma
he;s a paedophile
a war criminal
a muredering bastard
buy you go ahead and admire the traitorous asshole atma  |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 125350
8/1/2006 7:10 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
This truly show's that he sincerily beliefs that we are all sheeps and stupid and dont know what's going on, " first of all " the kidnappings of the soldiers occured after israel soldiers slaughtered a whole family at the beach, second of all this clearly proofs to me " that the puppetmasters have yet again spined these two foolies bush and blair into submission. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 122437
he sold his soul back in 1980 caught cottaging as a propsective parliamentary candidate in beaconsfield
since then mossad and cia, and other intel agencies, have played him like a violin
blackmail
blair is bisexual
his name at fettes was antonia
whilst a trainee barrister it was miranda
he buggered and was buggred by gordon brown and lips bush
he was serviced by mr gannon at the whitehouse
he had john smith murdered
ditto david kelly
he should be hung for war crimes
for killing millions in iraq since 1990 |
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Anonymous Coward
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8/1/2006 7:11 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
The Omega Institute (OI), which works closely with the Institute for Policy Research for Development (IPRD), has learned from Israeli and Palestinian sources that just prior to the current crisis, senior Hamas leaders were in active dialogue with Israeli religious leaders in a round of bilateral peace negotiations. Israeli negotiators included Rabbi Menachem Froman, former deputy leader and co-founder of the Israeli Settler movement Gush Khatif; Rabbi David Bigman, head of the liberal religious Kibbutz movement Yeshiva at Ma’ale Gilboa; and Yitzhak Frankenthal, founder of the Arik Institute. Ongoing negotiations had resulted in a breakthrough peace “understanding”, which was to be announced at a press conference in Jerusalem to mark the launching of an extraordinary peace initiative. Israeli Prime Minister Olmert had been briefed extensively about the initiative by Frankenthal. Also due to attend the conference were Khaled Abu Arafa, the Palestinian Cabinet Minister for Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhamed Abu Tir, senior Hamas Member of the Palestinian Parliament, and other senior Palestinian delegates.
The meeting was to announce a joint Israeli-Palestinian call for the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit who had been abducted by Hamas in Gaza, along with proposals for the beginning of the release of all Palestinian prisoners. These measures were to precipitate unprecedented new peace negotiations on a framework peace agreement, drawn on the 1967 borders. The presence of Palestinian Cabinet Officers and senior Israeli religious leaders in contact with the Prime Minster was to underline the seriousness of this peace proposal on both sides.
Just hours before the meeting was due to start, the Israeli Shin Bet internal Security Service arrested Abu Tir and Abu Arafa and warned them not to attend the meeting, under threats of detention. The meeting, which offered a major opportunity to obtain Shalit’s release and launch a new framework for peace, was thrown into disarray. The next day, the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) invaded Gaza, and the day after both Abu Tir and Abu Arafa were abducted by Israeli forces, along with a third of the Palestinian Cabinet, provoking a predictable escalation of violence.
Israel simultaneously began conducting covert incursions on to Lebanese territory, provoking Hizbollah’s capture of two IDF soldiers. Credible sources confirm that the soldiers were not abducted on Israeli territory, but inside Lebanon. Like the scuppered peace negotiations, Western officials have ignored this, and misinformed the media. However, some reports corroborate the sources. Israeli officials, for instance, informed Forbes (12.7.06) that “Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers during clashes Wednesday across the border in southern Lebanon, prompting a swift reaction from Israel.”
“The revelations show that Palestinian and Lebanese actors were not principally responsible for the escalation of the current conflict”, said OI Director Graham Ennis. “Contrary to the misinformation disseminated by the Whitehouse and Whitehall, Israel vetoed unprecedented peace proposals that would have initiated a promising new framework for serious negotiations, and went on to provoke Palestinian and Lebanese groups into retaliations, that now threaten to escalate into a dangerous regional conflict.”
[ link to www.gnn.tv]
Great info, And backs the the current facts of zionist teorrism. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 125295
8/1/2006 7:11 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
So what did Blair really have to say:
Die you bastards or we will kill you all.
Maybe the Japanese guy with the scalar beam gun can make a grilled chicken out of Tony, what do you think???? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 125350
8/1/2006 7:12 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
we have nuke subs floating of their coasts and they dont even know it.
Sunburns can do no good against them. Nuke tipped tomahawks ready to hit tehran. :southparkw: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 122883
sure
and what about chinese and russian nuke subs off the cost of DC and LA?
get real
take your naieve gung ho analysis and flush it |
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Atma
User ID: 117053
8/1/2006 7:13 PM | | Re: Blair warns Syria and Iran of consequences | Quote |
buy you go ahead and admire the traitorous asshole atma
I was making an observation; and he is a polished speaker. I don't believe I used the word 'admire'. |
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