Why the Pentagon Thinks Attacking Iran is a Bad Idea

Attak on Iran??

The neocons that Bush has installed in the highest offices of government WANT a war with Iran.........And the rednecks that have NEVER been ANYWHERE want A WAR with Iran........I've got TWO 55 gallon drums back of my house JUST in Case they GET what they WANT.......gas will be $10 to $15 Dollars a gallon IF you CAN FIND ANY......Why?? Because Iran will close the Straits of Hormooze and there is No Way to stop them........ Leave Iran alone.....Tell the ZIONISTS to stop stealing land.......U.S.-Israel, Stop throwing your weight around before its too late for civilized dialog...... Iran has the (Inalienable) RIGHT under the NPT treaty to enrich Uranium for peacefull purposes.. If Israel DIDN'T want Iran to be Nuclear, then Israel should have been HONEST about their own NUCLEAR programs..... After India tested a bomb, Pakistan Zia al Haq said, "We will eat GRASS or go without food, but we WILL get the bomb" Bellicose nuclear neighbors spread fear an cause proliferation!!

WHAT DO DUMMIES LIKE ME KNOW?

AS I SEE IT:

IF IRAN CONTINUES TO DEVELOP NUCLEAR WEAPONS, ISRAEL WILL EVENTUALLY TAKE SOME SORT OF PRE-EMPTIVE ACTION. ONE CAN'T BLAME THEM.

HOWEVER, WE CAN'T ALLOW THAT (PACT OR NO PACT) AND WE SHOULD MAKE IT CLEAR TO THE ISRAELIS.

ALSO, WE CAN'T ALLOW IRAN TO TAKE PRE-EMPTIVE ACTION AGAINST ISRAEL AND WE SHOULD MAKE THAT CLEAR TO IRAN.

re MICHAEL BUSZKA of ID

Yeah,how dare those families of ONE MILLION+ dead Iraqis be

UNGRATEFUL to the most GLORIUS country in the entire universe

it is still a mystery to be solved....

Attacking Iran

Consequences of voting for a retarded low IQ

person from TX, but who can't ride a horse

nor play chess

is

what you will get now.

N. Korea redux

I have been telling everyone who will listen (not many) for the past six years that if W. wasn't willing to stop N. Korea after they openly declared they were pulling out of the NPT and would make nuclear weapons, then he certainly wouldn't stop Iran. N. Korea has no oil and no friends, except maybe China, and then only as a buffer to the U.S. Iran has lots of oil and plenty of countries who need them, which makes for the best type of friends.

If the U.S. isn't willing to elect leaders who will do the right thing to protect us, it is a little late to complain about the situation now. (And no, spending $3T invading the wrong country does not protect us, regardless of what the Neocons say.)

Somesthings you left out

This article discusses 3 options on dealing with preventing an Iranian nuclear weapon, but leaves out some key points:

1. Attack Iran -- besides all the horrible negative consequences and likelihood that it would cause Iran to start a REAL crash nuclear weapons program -- Americans would be outraged at Israel and AIPAC for dragging it into a war where they have to pay $8/gallon for gas, and see more American soldiers and sailors get killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Persian Gulf -- and with no exit plan or good result. Strike 1.

2. Sanctions and "negotiations" -- the article does not mention the key sticking point is U.S. and Israeli insistence on zero Uranium enrichment, which is and always has been a non-starter, not only with the Iranian government but the people. Too many countries want Iran's oil and natural gas for sanctions to work. Strike 2.

3. Accepting an Iranian nuclear weapon. Why cave in on this when there are better proposals out there, similar to one which Iran itself has proposed in 2005? Everyone should read Luers, Pickering and Walsh's proposal in the March International Herald Tribune (http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/03/opinion/edluers.php?page=2). A combination of limited enrichment with international supervision, intrusive inspections, and safeguards would assure the world that Iran is truly not developing a nuclear weapon, and give us far more assurance than we have right now. Why isn't the media giving this idea more attention, instead of forcing us to think there are only 3 terrible options?

And why aren't we hearing about common ground between the US and Iran in stabilizing Iraq and defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan?

IRAN WAR - WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?

Iran has Russian and Chinese supplied missile defence systems that would cause major problems for US Navy and Air Force.

Iran has huge energy contracts with China, Russia, India and other important nations. All these countries would be economically threatened by any military attack on Iran.

The global price of oil would skyrocket. Why doesn't the mainstream media take this potential disaster seiously?

So. Iran (an NPT signatory that hasn't attacked anyone in decades) is pursuing reasonable diplomacy, showing that it's not building nukes (corroborated by every single inspection & piece of intelligence available), and not threatening anyone (because let's not forget that Ahmainejad has never made any threats against Israel, despite the Israeli-controlled media's ubiquitous lies to the contrary).

Meanwhile, Israel (a belligerent rogue terrorist state guilty of countless war crimes and acts of aggression through its entire existence, and a nuclear-armed non-NPT signatory) makes no secret that it's hell-bent on the US launching yet another invasion of a sovereign nation that poses no threat, or else starting the attack themselves.

Seems perfectly obvious that Olmert and co. are the terrorists we really need to be thwarting.

ALL OUR PROBLEMS SOLVED!!

In reading this article it says basically that the white house is the one doing the deciding... this attitude has prevailed for so long people swallow it hook line and sinker... The constituition says congress shall have the power to make war, not the sorry%$#@ execuitive branch who continually ursurps power by sheer arrogance... I voted for King George twice(sorry) and he deserves impeachment more than any other president due to his unconstituional power grabs and one world agendas. IF POLITICIANS would quit lying when they say they will uphold, protect and defend the constituion and ACTUALLY obey it, 95% of our problems would go away.. secure the borders, bring home troops, quit empire building, pay our bills, reduce government, these are ideas straight out of the constituition.. and history proves they work... avoid foreign entanglements, duh!! come on congress grow a pair!! impeach the bum and vote on some issues!! or as Glenn Beck says get out your pitchforks and clean out washington,,, ask your canadates what they think of the constituition, is it, quote: a "living document" that can be intrepreted different ways? or a granite block of truth that everyone MUST obey? if they choose #1 get rid of them.....

IRAN WAR

A WAR WITH IRAN WOULD BE DEVASTATING FOR THE U.S. I DON'T WANT TO SOUND DOOMSDAY, BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE THE END. THE BETTER IDEA IS RECALL ALL OF OUR TROOPS, SURE UP ALL OF OUR BORDERS WITH THESE TROOPS. AND TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN FOR A CHANGE. LET'S END POVERTY AND HUNGER IN OUR OWN COUNTRY AND LET THESE UNGRATEFUL COUNTRIES FEND FOR THEM SELVES. IT'S TIME WE TELL THE REST OF THE WORLD TO KISS OFF.