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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Rebel on January 09, 2008, 03:24:28 PM
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reprehensor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Jan-09-08 03:44 PM
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Strait of Hormuz - "It's a Fake"
It's a Fake
by Hooman Majd, January 9, 2008
The Pentagon's version of the encounter in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday morning, involving U.S. Navy warships and Iranian Revolutionary Guard patrol boats is, at the very least highly suspicious. On Tuesday, the Navy released video footage and an audiotape to back its claims that the Iranian boats acted in a threatening and provocative manner, but neither the video nor the audio are particularly convincing as proof that Iran had hostile intentions. The video, which shows what is claimed are Iranian boats speeding around U.S. ships, doesn't show any of the boats hurtling directly towards any of the navy ships, nor does it show what the Pentagon claimed the Iranians then did, namely dropped "white boxes" in the water. (I would have opened fire at those, wouldn't you?) The audio tape is even less convincing, mainly because the person speaking doesn't have an Iranian accent and moreover, sounds more like Boris Karloff in a horror movie than a sailor in the elite branch of Iran's military. (The tape is also separate from any video.) Any Iranian can immediately identify Persian-accented English, particularly if the speaker has had little contact with the West, as is the case with Revolutionary Guardsmen and sailors. Iranians, you see, have difficulty with two consonants such as "p" and "l" next to each other; even Iranians who have lived in America for years will often pronounce "please" as "peh-leeze", or in this case, "explode" as "exp-eh-lode". On the tape, "explode" is pronounced perfectly, albeit as if the speaker was a villain addressing a superhero. Further, it is unimaginable, given what is known about the Revolutionary Guards (and I have met many), that one of its corps would speak in a such a manner, even if the accent were correctly Persian...
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HuffPo says so (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hooman-majd/its-a-fake_b_80682.html)
Hydra (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Jan-09-08 03:48 PM
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4. Dur!
"Water is proven wet- more at 11!"
Bushco thinks we're idiots- their s*** is so transparent. OTOH, they know we'll do nothing to stop them, so why bother making it convincing, hmm?
K Gardner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Jan-09-08 03:52 PM
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7. It sounded robotic. It was just not a natural sounding "voice" to me, also,
Bush ratcheted up his Iran rhetoric today at the presser, where he looked absolutely hungover with one eye half shut.
These people are f'n nuts (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2643436#2643448) :whatever:
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Simply incredible. The idiot at Puffington Host hat this country so damn much they'd rather believe the propaganda from the Iranians than the military of their own country.
Can we start questioning their patriotism yet?
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No......they are patriots
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So if we blow the next ones out of the water they'll be US naval personnel and not Iranian?
Weapons-free, Squidly.
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No......they are patriots
Yes but for what country?
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No......they are patriots
Yes but for what country?
Not a country unless AlQueda and all other terrorist have one