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In an Alex Jones interview today (you can get 8/28 show from this archive), Ron Paul said they'll try to attack "in the next year or so".  Do you agree?

Yes - during Dubya's administration
- 11 (40.7%)
No - they'll do it in the next administration
- 8 (29.6%)
No - they can't afford another war
- 8 (29.6%)

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Re: Will the U.S. attack Iran?
« Reply #45 on: September 04, 2007, 05:12:44 PM »

Alex, consider it a gift from the Chimp to Putin. With a war nearby, Russian arms manufacturers can aide an ally of the Russian Federation, with a premium of course.

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Re: Will the U.S. attack Iran?
« Reply #46 on: September 04, 2007, 07:14:50 PM »

Iran is close, very close, to building it's first nuke. After the first test, it is unlikely the U.S. will attack.

Unless Bush's invisible sky spirit advisor whispers the wrong thing in his ear.
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« Reply #47 on: September 05, 2007, 01:42:29 AM »

There's no way anything can be achieved in Iran without at least half a million troops in the region (which Israel could easily provide, if it was to get involved directly, but they won't want an all-out war).  There's no way America can come up with this many soldiers, not even if two-thirds of them speak Spanish.

If the U.S. starts bombing targets in Iran, the insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan would multiply by twenty.  The inevitable destruction of Iran's puny air and sea powers and missile launchers would be meaningless - it will be a long s guerrilla war in an area many times larger than Vietnam, and also more populous.  Sealing off Iran's borders will be next to impossible, and the "westerner death toll" will go from thousands to tens of thousands.

Withdrawing will then be many times more discouraging than it is now, because it could lead to a "Greater Persia" with expanded powers in Shia Arab regions, and many more problems for Israel. 


Hey I never said it was a good idea, only that it would be possible.
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Re: Will the U.S. attack Iran?
« Reply #48 on: September 05, 2007, 06:16:38 AM »

Iran is close, very close, to building it's first nuke. After the first test, it is unlikely the U.S. will attack.

Unless Bush's invisible sky spirit advisor whispers the wrong thing in his ear.

Assuming it works better than NK's "Nuke"

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Re: Will the U.S. attack Iran?
« Reply #49 on: September 05, 2007, 12:06:38 PM »

Iran is close, very close, to building it's first nuke. After the first test, it is unlikely the U.S. will attack.

Unless Bush's invisible sky spirit advisor whispers the wrong thing in his ear.

Assuming it works better than NK's "Nuke"
according to the show, the first battlefield test was the most recent invasion of Iraq and we all know how long the Iraqi military stood up then.  Of course, guerilla fighters are a whole other ball game.
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