War against Iran May have already begun
#1
Posted 21 June 2005 - 07:27 PM
Check out this story on Al Jazeera about the parallels between the leadup to the invasion of Iraq and the current situation with Iran.
Do you guys think that, against all military knowledge, Bush might commit to an act of official aggression against Iran? He seems to be either preparing for it or just trying to bluff.
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#2
Posted 21 June 2005 - 08:53 PM
#3
Posted 21 June 2005 - 09:10 PM
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#7
Posted 21 June 2005 - 10:09 PM
2) Too many troops dedicated already in Iraq
3) Iran has never posed a threat to America or Israel
4) Iran is clever.. they never go far enough where they force foreign intervention
#8
Posted 21 June 2005 - 11:24 PM
We have been glaring menacingly at it since January though...
Edit: Redundant redundancy.
This post has been edited by Slade: 21 June 2005 - 11:27 PM
#10
Posted 22 June 2005 - 01:01 AM
Also it would make his security position in Iraq even worse than it is already - not only would he be hard-pressed for manpower, the militant groups would take his involvement in Iran a sign that his attention was off Iraq and become more boisterous. Finally - if the Iranians are developing a nuclear program, (which is the excuse this time) then you'd have to be one crazy bee to try and go up against a nuclear power.
#12
Posted 22 June 2005 - 12:03 PM
That sounds EXACTLY like the argument made against war with Iraq.
Anyhow I doubt he'll do it as well, but it looks and feels a lot like the lead up to Iraq. I mean he is technicly already commencing hostilities by funding anti-Iranian terrorists and flying into Iranian airspace.
Bush is in the perfect position to attack Iran strategicly, but he dosn't have the manpower. Public support he could MAYBE get. Sad to say but I think a good slice of the population would be ignorant enough to support a war against Iran.
However it's clear to see what Bush is going for. Once he takes Iran he'll control Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. If he builds hotels on all of these, or even just puts up enough houses, he would have a stranglehold on the other side of the board. There's been a great deal of talk about Bin Laden trying to blow up one of Bush's railroads but we all know that railroads are fairly useless unless you own all four of them.
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#13
Posted 22 June 2005 - 03:20 PM
He's not going to get a war without a draft, and that's going to totally enrage at least half of the population of the US. Of course, it'll be on his second term, and since the Republicans are in power, he wouldn't be impeached or have to worry about his public opinion, just up his bodyguards.
If it happens, there will be hell to pay, to be sure.
#14
Posted 22 June 2005 - 03:56 PM
Anyhow I doubt he'll do it as well, but it looks and feels a lot like the lead up to Iraq. I mean he is technicly already commencing hostilities by funding anti-Iranian terrorists and flying into Iranian airspace.
Bush is in the perfect position to attack Iran strategicly, but he dosn't have the manpower. Public support he could MAYBE get. Sad to say but I think a good slice of the population would be ignorant enough to support a war against Iran.
However it's clear to see what Bush is going for. Once he takes Iran he'll control Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. If he builds hotels on all of these, or even just puts up enough houses, he would have a stranglehold on the other side of the board. There's been a great deal of talk about Bin Laden trying to blow up one of Bush's railroads but we all know that railroads are fairly useless unless you own all four of them.
Ya but Iraq has posed a threat to Israel... Iran never has. Iraq has fought aggressive wars in the past 20 years... Iran hasn't. The situations are just totally different and a war with Iran won't happen PERIOD.
#15
Posted 22 June 2005 - 04:05 PM
The draft would be the straw that finaly breaks the tax payer's backs. If that is EVER instetuded agian for something short of WWIII then who ever is in office will have hell to pay.
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