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Be Careful, Kids — Monkey Business Can Start Wars

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It seems the recent close encounter between U.S. Navy warships and Iranian speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz was spurred on by a notorious radio wisecracker called the "Filipino Monkey." The Guardian reports that the elusive monkey—a "mythical guy out there who, hour after hour, shouts obscenities and threats" over Navy radio frequencies—was the creepy voice that American sailors heard muttering, "I am coming to you... You will explode in a few minutes," during their 20-minute standoff last week with the Iranians. (Click here for the monkey see, monkey do. Sorry, I couldn't resist.) For their part, the Iranians deny any aggressive behavior, claiming the video/audio released by the Pentagon is propaganda. Whatever the case, there's a surly monkey of a man out there somewhere, probably sitting alone in his basement with a toy radio set, who almost made our world much more complicated.

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Posted by Bruce Falconer on 01/14/08 at 4:10 PM | E-mail | Print | Digg | de.licio.us | Reddit | Newsvine | Yahoo! MyWeb | StumbleUpon | Netscape | Google |



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Posted by: FX on 01/14/08 at 9:51 PM  Respond

Funny how when Ron Paul mentions we should use caution before we go starting another war everyone laughs. Haven't we learned anything from The Gulf of Tonkin, burning of the Reichstag, sinking of the Lucitania and Iraq's WMD's? Wars are all started with monkey business... just one more reason that the lemmings of this country often select chimps to run our country.

Posted by: jc on 01/15/08 at 6:08 AM  Respond

I'd gladly vote for any primate before a bigot.

Maybe it is just me.

Posted by: capt on 01/15/08 at 6:38 AM  Respond

capt, we are all bigots, look at yourself in the mirror.

Posted by: Admiral Theodore Jackson on 01/15/08 at 7:31 AM  Respond

"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!"
~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )


Always the personal attack, I am not running for office.

Let's stick to the candidates - the Ad Hominem is unnecessary and exposes a tacit admission of my point.

Thanks

Posted by: capt on 01/15/08 at 8:34 AM  Respond

Iran hates Israel for no good reason. Iran wants to get nuclear weapons to destroy the Jews. Don't you goys understand? This is not a joking matter.

Posted by: Ira C. on 01/15/08 at 10:13 AM  Respond

"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Posted by: capt on 01/15/08 at 5:10 PM  Respond

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