The war of words between Great Britain and Iran continues as to where exactly the 15 British sailors were captured by Iranian forces: inside Iraqi or Iranian territorial waters? We are talking about a few kilometers left or right here, in a disputed area at sea without any boundary markers.
What is absolutely without doubt is that the British were in foreign waters, whether in Iraq or Iran, and that they shouldn't have been there. The British committed aggression against Iraq. A mandate from a puppet government in Baghdad or even the U.N. Security Council doesn't change that fact. The British are entitled to protect the mouth of the Thames, not the Shatt al-Arab. If an Iranian warship would have been patrolling to Thames to check on car smuggling between Britain and the Continent, how would the Royal Navy have reacted?
The British should leave Iraq and the Middle East and stop doing the dirty work for their American masters. No doubt, leading seaman (what about leading seawoman?) Faye Turney has a lovely daughter who very much needs her mother to be at her side instead of trying to provoke a war in the Gulf. She will probably be released today to a hero's welcome in Britain. (CNN: UK, Iran stand firm in sailors crisis)
What about the hundreds of thousands of Iranian mothers and daughters who face certain death if Bush and Blair get their way?
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