Cognitive Dissidents

In the world of the New Cold War - Iran has recently upped the stakes by kidnapping capturing British sailors

Meanwhile - back on the propaganda front - where if you couldn't make it up, you do anyway, Rosie O'Donnell has this to say about the illegal kidnappping capture

TV host Rosie O'Donnell implied today the Iranian seizure of British sailors was a hoax to provide President Bush with an excuse to go to war with Tehran.

In a discussion about the 15 British personnel seized Friday for allegedly entering Iranian waters, the controversial co-host of ABC's "The View" correlated the event to the Gulf of Tonkin incident that propelled the U.S. into the Vietnam War. President Johnson's administration was accused of provoking one incident in 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin and making up another as a pretext for war.

Now this would be all well and good - yet another Conspiracy Theory to keep the masses amused - but nobody is asking a very important question - and if you read the Guardian piece it soon becomes apparent what that question is.

"They are in completely good health. Rest assured that they have been treated with humanitarian and moral behaviour," Muhammad Ali Hosseini, a spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry, told the Associated Press.

Mr Hosseini said the only woman sailor among the group enjoyed complete privacy. "Definitely all ethics have been observed" he said.

So does complete privacy in a country under Sharia law where all ethics have been observed mean that a woman is being held in solitary confinement for the only reason that she is female.

Surely not??

Surely such treatment would be a "cruel and unusual punishment" for a kidnap victim prisoner of war?

Is the female prisoner being held in solitary confinement? Or is it just that she is being held in complete privacy?

I reckon Rosie O'Donnell should be the one kept in complete privacy - so her malignant conspiracy theories do not affect the outcome of this prisoner exchange hostage crisis

Of course - after this - everyone is going to agree that Ahmendinjad is the leader of a country that can be trusted with using nuclear power for peacful purposes ...

Tags: islam, iran, sharia, womens rights, kidnapped sailors, solitary confinement, war crimes