Forget War With Iran

Everyone knows the Bush administration has been a horrible failure. We as American citizens, the free, should be concerned about our countries foreign affairs. Is it too radical to say these past events have highly "embarassed" our country?. I would say it is. I begin to wonder everyday if we as citizens and media are the ones embarassing the country. Pride in our country is declining, and our self-pitying citizens do nothing more than criticize every event. I am not pro-war and I do feel the war in Iraq should never have happened. War is not a solution, but support the soldiers please, if I could wake up in the morning and read one comment in the papers which mentioned the sacrifices of every soldier; I would be very satisfied. By the way, thanks to the NIE our president has not been presented with false information; thus starting a conflict to stop Iraq from controlling non-existent WMD's. American citizens take pride in our country, and remember why we are the super power of the earth.
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as an iranian, i am glad to learn about NIE's report. i lived in US for 12 years, i beleive there is more grounds for friendship between iranians, and americans than any other time. i hope to see american intellectuals, and media start buildind a friendly relation between 2 nations. the fox media type of news is very harmful, and it better ends. Iranian news and media has changed its propagands towards US but we do not see the same change in us. IT is better for the world to start diplomatic relations based on respect. war, or disputes in any level will damage both nations, i beleive americans politicians , and iranians can slowly negotiate and bring both nations together. It is obvious that zionist lobby is strong in senate and will not allow that to happen, but we all like to see iran-us relations to cherish and develop. majid D

USSR found out about Afganistan while Regan was in office, I guess we will learn our lessons eventually while Putin is at the helm in Russia. The only war to fight and win is total war. If we want to try to police the world and make it safe for democracy we should lead by example and not force the issue at the point of a gun. Right now I think we are not acting as a shining beacon on the hill in the furtherance of freedom (of course that is only an opinion and everybody here has one). I am kind of sorry to those whom I offended but that was done in good nature, let us not take ourselves too seriously, we are only men and women and not omnipotent. You guys and girls have a nice evening and remember to hug your children and tell them that you love them before you go to sleep tonight,. Peace on earth and goodwill to all men and women.

I think that iran is just scared. i dont believe we should go over there but i do believe that we should keep an eye on them. As for iraq and afganistan we did the right thing. I do believe that we had no choice but to go to war with them. its an ugly situation but we will stay with it till the end.

To Laki. are you kidding? War with Afghanistan---totally right; war with Iraq questionable. In case you have amnesia they were protecting Osama or were you in the same cave? The only mistake is abandoning Afghanistan for Iraq

This is obviously written by someone who already hated Bush. And must be a comedian because he can only be joking when he said that JFK was trustworthy, or that people trusted us during his administration. Let us remember who helped to get us into the Vietnam War by saying that we were sending in 12000 "advisers" to help the South Vietnamese.

This is obviously written by someone who already hated Bush. And must be a comedian because he can only be joking when he said that JFK was trustworthy, or that people trusted us during his administration. Let us remember who helped to get us into the Vietnam War by saying that we were sending in 12000 "advisers" to help the South Vietnamese.

I think George Bush and its accomplices should be tried as war criminals (on the invasion to Iraq) if they dear to go into Iran it would be a second trial. The United Estates of North America shouldn't let those warmongers, the weapons industries' servants, satisfy their criminal desires
The Eye.

To the author.... are you that ignorant and uneducated to think that our political system revolves completely around an America that would allow our president to make the statements about Iran over the last two years based on his word alone or "HYPE" as you call it? You have to have more sense that to think that our country bases decisions or even potential threats on a "presidents hype". You certainly can not tell that you have a biased opinion of our president and the sad part is.....their are others as equally ignorant to our nation and the amount of intelligence that we receive to think that major decisions are made based on someones "idea". I guarentee you that you would be the first reporter to report what a disgrace he was if he didn't acknowledge IRAN and they end being a threat....the amount of information traffic that is converted to intlellgence daily would blow your little mind.....and so if false infromation comes through and we find out later that it is false...so what at least we didn't minimize it. But I am sure you.....would be able to decipher what intlelligence information is pertinent and what is not. It isn't our president our president that makes "America's reputation in the world is the biggest loser:....it is reporters like you that play on peoples ignorance and write stories like this and miss lead them into thinking that President even interepts the intelligence. It comes from way down the chain...up to the Pentagon..and travels through many hands before it gets to him. So the other 40 to 60 hands the intel touched also thought it was important. But lets blame the President....nice way to put out a biased opinion. But if you swayed one....I guess you win.

I can't believe there are intelligent people in this country still blindly following our village idiot of a president, who has proven over and over and over again that he and Cheney cannot be trusted and have manipulated security reports and intelligence over the years to fit their agenda of bringing good ol' American democracy to the Middle East.

It will take years and years to rebuild America's global image. Bush's cowboy attitude and arrogance have alienated even our fiercest allies and single-handedly killed the political career of England's Tony Blair.

I didn't think I would ever start thinking like an isolationist, but the Bush presidency has led me to only one conclusion: Get the hell out of Iraq ... and to hell with the whole Middle East. We have made no attempt to understand the people. the culture or the thinking of the Iraqi people and have bungled this invasion every step of the way.

Let's get out ... bring our brave men and women home ... admit we didn't know what the hell we were doing ... and stop trying to impose our views and way of life on people who clearly do not want our help or our opinions on how they should run their country.

I can appreciate Republicans being loyal to their leader. But even some of my Republican friends are finally admitting that Bush is clueless, arrogant and incompetent, and will probably go down in history as one of our worst presidents.

I hoped that the truth would come to light.

Winter Song

Cherokee and PROUD!

First part of my comment that was lost: Very interesting book to read is "Showdown with Nuclear Iran by Michael Evans with Jerome Corsi. There are other books available on this very serious issue and I encourage everyone to take the time to read some of them. Pres. Ahmadinejad is driven by his religious belief that an apocalyptic event needs to happen in order for the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi, to return so the conditions are right for Islamic caliphate all over the world (the nation of Islam). He has one agenda: to annihilate the infidels (Israelis and Americans). Nuclear Iran is not just a major concern for Israel and the US but should be a concern for everyone in the entire world. President Bush may not be loved by all, but he is in fact...still our President. Who's to say our intelligence is all that intelligent? They can only make decisions based on the information that is uncovered by them. Who's to say that Iran is being totally honest? They have been deceptive and uncooperative in the past and with every deception they manage to buy more time to develop their nuclear program by keeping actions

IRAN must continue to be a security concern to the United States, just as many other countries will be in the future. The current facts indicate IRAN certainly should not be attacked any time soon, unless things really change for the worse. The real problem is that IRAQ was attacked as a pre-emptive strike based on wrong information, or even more sinister motives. The drumbeat to war with IRAN was just more of the same.
I thought the German experience in WW1 AND WW11 would provide enough of a history lesson to subsequent leaders that unprovoked "pre-emptive" wars based on dubious beliefs never work out.
The World Leaders that go the route of Hitler always end up losing, and are known as War Criminals, for good reason.
The United States was justified in IRAQ WAR 1 and won a quick and nearly bloodless victory. The war goal of kicking IRAQ out of KUAIT was a clear and globally supported reason for war. The second war with IRAQ was not justified especially since the United States retained complete air superiority over IRAQ since the first war.
A war on IRAN, or attack on IRAN would require waging an unjustified aggressive war, just the issue the Nurenberg War Trials of Nazi officials addressed.
My view point does not mean that American allies, and the United States, should not remain vigilant on the IRAN question, or that a Nation directly threatned by IRAN should not be precluded from acting in it's own vital self defense interest.
Existing American treaties with America's allies and NATO should define actual American involvement. If War comes it must be declared by Congress and not started for dubious reasons by an acknowledged failure of a President who has lost the confidence of three quarters of his own citizens.