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Originally posted by Cobra:
LONDON -- Britain's defense secretary warned Iran Thursday that any attempt to block the key global oil passageway the Strait of Hormuz would be illegal and unsuccessful – hinting at a robust international response.

During his first visit to the Pentagon for talks with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Philip Hammond told the Atlantic Council in Washington that the presence of British and American naval ships in the Persian Gulf would ensure the route is kept open for trade.

Iran has threatened to close the route in possible retaliation to new U.S. and European economic sanctions, a tactic the U.S. already has said it would not tolerate.

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Originally posted by D2:
Who want mullas with a bomb? The sanctions are to prevent a war, If they want to close the gulf the entire international community would be against them, Asia gets most of its oil from the gulf and would not fuss much if the US, France, Germany and the UK bomb them into the dirt,

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Originally posted by Chief:
Without America help England could not have defeated Argentina back in the 80's in the Fauklands war.

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Originally posted by Chief:
Without America help England could not have defeated Argentina back in the 80's in the Fauklands war.

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Originally posted by Henry:

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Originally posted by Chief:
Without America help England could not have defeated Argentina back in the 80's in the Fauklands war.

Speaking of the Malvinas, the Brits are heating that one up again.

http://www.larouchepac.com/node/21048

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Originally posted by Henry:

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Originally posted by D2:
Who want mullas with a bomb? The sanctions are to prevent a war, If they want to close the gulf the entire international community would be against them, Asia gets most of its oil from the gulf and would not fuss much if the US, France, Germany and the UK bomb them into the dirt,

The mullahs have no bomb, and according to the CIA, they gave up trying to build one in 2003. This is another transparent media hoax like the Iraqi WMDs. As for the sanctions, sanctions are an act of war, so the idea that they are intended to prevent war is more stupidness. The Brits need a war bad, or else Asia is going to be the new center of the world economy as the North Atlantic region sacrifices itself on the altar of the banksters.

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Originally posted by D2:

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Originally posted by Chief:
Without America help England could not have defeated Argentina back in the 80's in the Fauklands war.

Why does Argentina own those islands and not England again? The Argentine are colonials as are the British and if seizure and claim was the case in those time so be it. They took it in the early 1800's as they took Guyana from the Dutch so I guess we belong to the dutch,

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Originally posted by Henry:

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Originally posted by D2:

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Originally posted by Chief:
Without America help England could not have defeated Argentina back in the 80's in the Fauklands war.

Why does Argentina own those islands and not England again? The Argentine are colonials as are the British and if seizure and claim was the case in those time so be it. They took it in the early 1800's as they took Guyana from the Dutch so I guess we belong to the dutch,

You might want to take a look at a map. The Malvinas lie off the coast of Argentina, and they are thousands of miles from the UK. Guyana belongs to the Guyanese. If the British were to present some bogus argument that they own some islands in the Essequibo, most Guyanese would take offense. I said "most."

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Originally posted by D2:
Who want mullas with a bomb? The sanctions are to prevent a war, If they want to close the gulf the entire international community would be against them, Asia gets most of its oil from the gulf and would not fuss much if the US, France, Germany and the UK bomb them into the dirt,