US Develops Irony Bomb

[coinich]

WASHINGTON - The same US aircraft carrier group that Iran warned not to return to the Gulf has rescued 13 Iranians held hostage for weeks by pirates in the Arabian Sea, the Pentagon said on Friday.

The rescue operation took place on Thursday, when forces with the USS John C. Stennis carrier strike group received a distress call from the master of the Al Molai, an Iranian-flagged fishing vessel, who said he was being held captive by pirates.

http://www.jpost.com/International/A...aspx?id=252530

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As the article said, US rescues Iranians after being warned not to return. lol

[GGT]

We should send the full bill to Iran.

These are the same guys who want to close the Strait of Hormuz and limit transportation of 40% of the world's oil transport, but they can't rescue 13 of their own sea-faring citizens from pirates. Irony, indeed.

[Wraith]

Good work by the captain, Commander Jennifer L. Ellinger.

I wonder if Tehran has called her to say 'thank you' yet?

[Loki]

We should send the full bill to Iran.

These are the same guys who want to close the Strait of Hormuz and limit transportation of 40% of the world's oil transport, but they can't rescue 13 of their own sea-faring citizens from pirates. Irony, indeed.

Pray tell what the response should be when the Iranians refuse to pay.

[Aimless]

We should send the full bill to Iran.

These are the same guys who want to close the Strait of Hormuz and limit transportation of 40% of the world's oil transport, but they can't rescue 13 of their own sea-faring citizens from pirates. Irony, indeed.

Can you charge people for giving them things they didn't ask for?

[ImAnOgre]

Companies in the US do it all the time. I get charged for sewer service on my water at my house, but I'm on a septic tank

[RandBlade]

Can you charge people for giving them things they didn't ask for?

If you get rescued by Search & Rescue out at sea here you'll get a bill.

[agamemnus]

Pray tell what the response should be when the Iranians refuse to pay.

The account will be settled after the war.

[RandBlade]

Think a war will cost in the order of hundreds of millions more than this.

[Loki]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16455164

Apparently, we set the whole thing up.

[wiggin]

Think a war will cost in the order of hundreds of millions more than this.

Only hundreds of millions? Please, we only do wars that cost at least $10 billion.

[coinich]

Only hundreds of millions? Please, we only do wars that cost at least $10 billion.

Anything else would be simply insulting!