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June 22, 2007

Australia, f*ck yeah......!

Our hats are off to you Australia, once again:

AN Australian Navy boarding crew in the Gulf of Persia repelled an Iranian gunboat that threatened them a matter of weeks before 15 British sailors were captured in a similar incident, it was reported today....
But BBC reporter Frank Gardner, a security specialist, reported the Australians had pointed their guns at the Iranians and used "colourful language" before the gunboat withdrew.

Thanks to il mango di Treviso for the e-mail.

Do we even need to draw the obvious comparisons....??

Posted by: Rusty at 12:40 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment
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I saw a BBC version of this earlier, thought it was funny. The Iranians also tried to grab Americans along the Iran-Iraq border, but were "persuaded" otherwise. I find this bit from the BBC article hilarious:

The circumstances for the Britons in March were slightly different in that they were caught so much by surprise that, had they attempted to repel the Iranians with their limited firepower, they would doubtless have taken very heavy casualties.

1: Why were they "taken so much by surprise"?

2: They would have "doubtless taken heavy casualties" ONLY IF the Iranians decided they actually wanted to fight.
3: Their "limited firepower" included a Royal Navy destroyer well within range of its deck guns, let alone missiles ... apparently they were "caught so much by surprise" they couldn't use a radio, either.

Posted by: geobandy at June 22, 2007 02:19 PM (DaNDN)

2 Better to die a man than live as a coward.

Something I learned in the Corps many years ago.

Posted by: 1sttofight at June 22, 2007 02:40 PM (XKYtn)

3 These attempted kidnappings were committed by the IRGC/Basiji who are the Mullahcracy's ideological army. These guys are basically an army of hoodlums and street thugs; and just like any other thug their bravado quickly evaporates when they find themselves confronted by someone who has the weapons and will to stand up to them. This also explains their preference for proxy wars.

Posted by: Garduneh Mehr at June 22, 2007 03:58 PM (j97MF)

4 I love/hate this story and find it funny/tragic. While the US and Oz military guys still have the balls to say, "I don't THINK so!" to the Iran-o-tards, their parent culture can't muster up even a whit of testicular fortitude.

Posted by: Hucbald at June 22, 2007 08:44 PM (6vhVW)

5 I see no need to purposely embarrass the Brits. Okay, 14 of them appear to be pussy. Doesn't make the rest pussy. They are fighting at our side. Don't believe the Brits would allow this to happen again. Bad day when so called brave people demean those fighting at their side. The British leadership is as pussy as our own. Not the British people.

Posted by: greyrooster at June 22, 2007 08:45 PM (k0DWG)

6 We have been seeing hints of this all along. Several years ago the Iranians came across the border and we suggested the Brits stop them to which their reply was their was no need for confrontation.

Posted by: Randman at June 23, 2007 10:31 AM (Sal3J)

7 Such brave leaders.

Posted by: greyrooster at June 23, 2007 07:17 PM (1p01H)

8 Looks like the KANGAROO and EMU have decided to realy kick butt with those iranian pirates and those iraians are lucky they did,nt end up as shark food well at least the sharks are lucky

Posted by: sandpiper at June 24, 2007 10:44 AM (h6CK1)

9 In other words they weren't a bunch of pussies like the British. Huge news.

Posted by: Joe at June 28, 2007 01:02 AM (ip8b4)

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