The Road to War, Part II

The casual mention of instigating World War III is insane. Iran is not an immediate threat to the United States and the possession of a nuclear weapon would not make it so. If anything, there is a measure of insanity in the administration.

obsessive illness can be political as well as individual and when we see the political reaction to iran we see this illness at work and we will all pay dearly for the present political leaders obsessions

Futhermore... you can bet people such as elio57 (below) have never been to Iran, or the middle east, and while he/she would have no problem pushing a button in order to "Take down" Iran, do people such as this (The Neocon America hater types) it's all a big game, a black and white world of absolutes, little do they care of the hundreds of thousands of innocent people who get killed for their theories, the idiotic non-existant "war on terror" is brought to you by the same intellectually lazy bunch who dreamed up the "domino" theory in the 60's and 70's. It took what? 15 years, 58,000 dead GI's, and a million dead vietnamese for peopel to realize what a pile of bullkrap that one was. Are we really that stupid to fall for this line of insanity all over again in the 21st century?

Extremist militant Islam is a mortal threat to the US. If we do not aggressively try and change the dynamic in the middle east , sooner or later we will be dealing with regular Islamic terrorist attacks within the US borders akin to 9/11 and suicide attacks. Taking down Iran is an unavoidable step in dealing with the threats against us. Unfortunately this cannot be done through dialog. In the long run the use of force now, will work.

The comment below is ignorant. Iran has sworn to fire 11,000 missiles at the first sign of hostility against the Iranian nation. Israel should be left to fend for its own, to keep us Americans out of another pointless, costly war.
Note: It is never ok to use a nuclear weapon on any country. That is a statement from a violent, evil, human being.
I also added he is in the military- that gives you no credit in some peoples books, you can't even spell. You might just be a loser who wasn't smart enough to get into college and wasnt ready enough to go into the real world so you joined a group that would for sure feed you, so long as your told what to do.

Some soilders are intelligent, brave, and god-fearing. This roddog69 who has what his name clames, the intelligence of a dog, is obviously not one of them.

Let the U.S. pop a tactical nuke out in the desert about 100 mile from Tehran, make sure its not traceable to the U.S. Then we just go on bussinness as normal. Lets us then see what happens. I am in the military (24yrs) and I do not want to go to war. Iran must not get a nuke. If its time for me to go again, so be it
MSG B

FYI - I did not mean that Isreal should blow itself up. I meant let the Shia and Sunni's fight it out - and keep us on the sidelines to help support Isreal's safety.

Just another note - to those who beleive in God, the defense of Isreal is critical to God. Those who aid his chosen will be favored. THose who attack Isreal will be destroyed. Don't beleive me? Read Revelations.

Iran is no threat to the USA, to say they are protrays a deep.. deep...DEEP Ignorance of Geo-Poltics. not only are they not a threat to the USA, they're not even a threat to their neighbors. Trying to "nation build" and micro-manage other cultures, namely those in the middle easy is pure folly, and will lead (for better or worse) to the bankruptcy of the United States of America.

Iran has a legitimate right to enrich uranium and operate nuclear research reactors and build nuclear power plants.
I'm curious why the U.S. didn't threaten North Korea with "World War III" despite the fact that North Korea actually tested a nuclear weapon, using plutonium from their clandestine program. North Korea refused to cooperate with the IAEA and eventually kicked their inspectors out. All the U.S. did was send Condoleeza over to Asia to grovel and plead with them to negotiate and cooperate.

In contrast, Iran has never had an IAEA inspection which found any evidence of diversion of nuclear material. Also, Iran has signed the Additional Protocol to the NPT and has fully cooperated in the more intrusive inspections under that Protocol, with no evidence of clandestine nuclear weapons programs. The IAEA has not declared Iran as being in violation of the NPT or any IAEA agreements, as a result of the IAEA inspections. If the U.S. doesn't trust the IAEA, then we shouldn't be funding 25 percent of the IAEA budget. If the U.S. has evidence of Iranian nuclear weapons programs, the U.S. should provide the info to the IAEA for the inspectors to check.
If the Iranians weren't trying to develop nuclear weapons before, they probably are now, with all the U.S. rhetoric about bombing Iran etc. That's just common sense, because how else would a country deter our hair-trigger, shoot-first-ask-questions-later style of international relations?
Lastly, whatever Iran is doing inside their own borders is none of the U.S. government's business, we're not the world's policeman and if we think we want to be an empire and dominate the world we should dispel that notion lest we get put in our place by the Chinese (and in a few years the Russians). By the way I was an IAEA inspector for three years, and voted Republican since I was 18, but after having seen this disaster of an administration, i'd vote for Hillary before I'd vote for GW Bush.

I can't believe Bush still has supporters in the US today! For 2008, I think we should administer IQ tests before we let any more of these retards into the voting booths.

Iran, by proxy, is alreadyat war with us in Iraq. Take out the potential nukes and they will see that it is better to be at peace with us. As for the EU, they have it figured out I guess. What with 2 world wars and 40 million plus deaths that went along with it, I figure they are smarter and more cultured than we are. As for blackdragon,religious war? Put down the bong my friend, at least come up with something uniquely yours, Peace

no one is bashing America. Face it totally incompetent is Bush.
Say Montana and Idaho were sovereign nations and the rest of America attacked Idaho because it did not have nuclear weapons..
The war in Iraq started this mess. war with iran will tip over the barrell. All middle East warand destabalization. Bush does not care. he thinks it will elect a republican.