I think they will continue on their road to nuclear power and weaponry. And possibly a strike against a US interest in the Gulf or elsewhere.
Answered By: ALASPADA - 10/26/2007 |
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Nope! They want to provoke an agressor - not BE the agressor!
Ahmed-the-nut-job is no fool! *laughter*
Answered By: Mista Ricksta - 10/25/2007 |
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Shutting down their banks hurts them. But tyrants don't capitulate, they whine.
I predict they'll come out on al Jazeira and bemoan the American Zionist cruelties in the world.
Answered By: mahal - 10/25/2007 |
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I doubt Iran wants a full scale war. Sanctions can be effective, but, for the most part, they really just hurt the everyday civilians of our targets.
The Bush administration is reaching out to Russia and China quietly and diplomatically (there's a switch for you) to ease tensions with Iran. It worked with N. Korea, and, God willing, will work with Iran as well.
Answered By: alphabetsoup2 - 10/25/2007 |
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Why should Iran strike first? They are not stupid -// at least not as stupid as the neocons.
Answered By: Paul - 10/25/2007 |
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That be great all their troops in mass at once will provide one large target to eliminate.
THis is great news.
Answered By: Holy Defender of The Republic - 10/25/2007 |
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My biggest concern about starting a conflict with Iran, is that they will have no reason not to cross the border into Iraq once attacked, and we will have a huge mess there then that I am not sure we will be able to contain.
Answered By: Steve C - 10/25/2007 |
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Yes, I think will strike first. I'm not quite sure where (or even what country), but they will make the first move.
Answered By: Lisa M - 10/25/2007 |
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I think we are headed for a confrontation, Iran just bought some fighter jets from Russia.
Yes, I believe their intention is to strike first.
Answered By: bossy babe - 10/25/2007 |
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More saber rattling,followed by more saber ratting by the US. If we aren't careful we will get the nutjob reelected. Historically Iran has never attacked/invaded anyone,they have took a defensive stance. You never know with the world today.
added. Ahmadinejad does not have the power to declare war
Answered By: here to help - 10/25/2007 |
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The leaders of Iran will be destroyed by their own people.
Answered By: dirtbag #1 - 10/25/2007 |
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They will continue to ignore us until either we or Israel bomb them.
Answered By: ozbe - 10/25/2007 |
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The Iranians will wait sometime and get organized, and than initiate Terror actions against the US, it's allies in the middle east, and anybody they think agrees with the US. they will employ El Qaida members in Iraq, Hezbollah, Hamas, and any other terror group, but they will not openly attack US targets.
Answered By: amiram a - 10/25/2007 |
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If Iran is smart and I think they are smarter than bush at least, they will continue to form strong bonds with nations like Russia and China. The US cannot afford to tangle with them.
Answered By: The President - 10/25/2007 |
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They will close the tap on their oil fields, and the barel will go to 150$.
thank you all politicians for your BS which increase my transport costs and my cost of living as a whole.
after almost drying up the production in IRAQ, now they go and mess up the 4 th oil producer.
smart, real smart!!!
Answered By: theedge - 10/25/2007 |
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As a PERSIAN boy living in IRAN i say you this : i ensure you our people don't allow our idiot president start a war , appriximately 90 ?f PERSIANS like USA . you can read the history of iran , it is a long time that our troops didn't attack other countries . we really are peacfuul and if our regime plans to start war be sure that we will protest and knock down our regime . just take your mind off and don't believe what ever fox news and your conservatives tell you .
peace be with you dear americans . god bless . MOHSEN from IRAN .
Answered By: toffanesahra - 10/25/2007 |
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Strike with what? Molotov cocktails?
Iran's President has threatened Israel because that's the only perceived enemy his missiles can reach. Since Israel ALREADY has nuclear weapons, they would immediately launch a counterstrike which would completely wipe out not only Iran, but most of those other countries in the area as well: Just the deaths from radioactive fallout (radioactive dust and debris from the detonations) would reach millions, possibly billions, in the Middle East, China, Russia, Japan, etc. Which ever country uses nuclear weapons first in ANY conflict will be globally reviled as a irresponsible mass murderer for all of global history.
I'm sorry, but Bush has already shown he doesn't interpret satellite photos and intel briefings correctly: I don't think more US kids dying because his WAG about Hussein's nuclear weapons was so out of whack, is a sustainable foreign policy. This time, Dubya's gonna have to drag President Armenjabbadoody into the UN with his dick superglued to a nuclear missile which says "This Missile Is Going To Israel"
THAT is how much credibility Bush has lost on the world stage and here at home. His vague, foundationless accusations, (parrotted by thousands of braindead cons with no capacity for critical thinking or logic) about Saddam's nukes in Syria, or Jordan, or Six Flags San Diego (or, even more implausible, Iran, why would Iran do ANYTHING to help Saddam Hussein?) are no longer enough to whip Americans up into another Invasion frenzy. What happened to getting rid of the Taliban in Afghanistan and capturing the fella who admitted murdering almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens? The mission in Afghanistan is FAR from "accomplished" and if Bush has HIS way, that will be the first of THREE countries we will have invaded withoutt he fainest idea how to win hearts and minds or convince them Democracy is better than what they are used to.
Can't this President finish ANYTHING he starts? Are there like a thousand 500 piece jigsaw puzzles all over the White House, all only a third or so finished? A room full of Christmas presents to Laura, all half wrapped, because he got bored and distracted?
I am seriously struck at how similar the Right Wing War Fever of the Bush Presidency is to the Stalin era of the Soviet Union. The USSR invaded a lot of countries too, always because they felt their system of government was so good, they were justified in forcing it on races of people who neither craved for nor ASKED for it, subjegating those people "for their own good".
This was accompanied by the usual patriotism and xenophobia about "Mother Russia" and only to a lesser extent, "the Communist Party". And I'll tell you, having studied Russian history a bit, the jingoism and blind hatred I see from the rightwing of the US, of ANYTHING not Republican, is most similar to the way Russian Communists hated and mistrusted the Capitalistic West at the height of the Cold War.
Iran will do what any small nation surrounded by enemies will: It will attempt to portray itself as tougher, stronger and more resolved to defend itself than it actually is, just as Saddam Hussein did, and implicitly threaten the region with non-existent weapons in an effort to avoid appearing weak to one's enemies. It will be empty rhetoric, it will stir support for the Iranian President from his people (who actually don't care for the little weasel too much) and it will all play right into Bush's hands, right into his Middle East agenda.
Iran will strike with whatever little SCUDs or whatever they have, when US invasion appears inevitible . Once we go in and send THEM back to the Stone Age again, and consequently find NO nuclear weapons, how long will the US have to keep buying countries our leadership "breaks" out of some megalomaniacal need to show the world he has a large johnson?
Answered By: Bert T - 10/25/2007 |
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The government of Iran has never done anything to threaten the U.S. and never will. Iran will simply get their financing from Russia, and if that dries up, from China.
There are still some crazy revolutionary guard people in Iran, who held our embassy hostage. Since they have popular support, the Iranian government has never had the incentive or power to crack down on them. We will never provide Iran with military and police assistance, so they have no choice but to let the Revolutionary Guard do as it likes. But to say they are one and the same is like saying the U.S. is responsible for the actions of the Ku Klux Klan or the Communist Party USA. Tolerance of fringe groups is not the same as support.
There are those in the United States (especially the executives of oil companies who wanted Iraq) who would like to take over Iran, because they have a lot of oil and it would connect our occupation forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, but unless the U.S. has the will to fight a continual counter-insurgency war and can colonize the middle east, like the British and French in the 19th century, I suggest we keep out of it.
Answered By: brucec83 - 10/25/2007 |
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Iran will send an air mail to Israel.
Answered By: truth - 10/25/2007 |
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