Iran just took delivery of its new long range missles from North Korea!\n\nNow they can hit targets ALL over Europe, not just Israel.\n\nDo you think its money well spent or just piles of smoking rubble in waiting once Israel drops bombs on their shiny new toys?
126462
Wonder if the Europeans will change their tune now that their cities are in jeopardy...nah...
138325
Difficult to call, there will already be a number of plans drawn up (if there weren't then the planning teams should be fired). Watch for the following:\n\n* movement of new air units to the Gulf (especialy stealth aircraft). Stealth is short ranged and will need to launch locally.\n\n* Movemenmt of extra aircraft carrier battle groups (less likely).\n\n* Pronouncements in the media of the evilness of Iran's government.\n\n* Generous settlement packages being turned down.\n\n* More leaks of intelligence on how close the bomb is to being ready.\n\n* Senior government representatives touring the area (especially Saudi Arabia).\n\n* Israel increasing friendly relations for no apparant reason (signal Israel may strike).\n\n* increased US aid to Israel (esp military equipment) - as above but more likely that the US has persuaded Israel to do it for them.
629081
only after the US invaded these not-so-much-of-a-threat-to-the-US countries that they started strapping and blowing themselves up in record numbers. you worry about the lowly guy with bombs strapped on his chest... are you even aware that North Korea's REAL weapons of mass destruction are pointed to the West? so what threat are you talking about? as far as i'm concerned, we are (the US) a manace to others and ourselves.
664593
Once launched, missles cannot be stopped.  That is why we have spent so many billions of dollars trying to come up with a system of  defense for intercontinental missles.  This is sometimes made fun of with the name "star wars" defense, but the issue is a serious one: under today's technology, long-range missles cannot be stopped.\n\nThat does not mean that the North Koreans are going to aim their missle (if it works) at the US West Coast.  They aren't that stupid.  The American reaction to such an attack (and that's what it would be, regardless of the armament) would be swift and terrible.  The North Koreans know that.  Their missle, again assuming it works, will be aimed into an empty part of the Pacific.\n\nWhat is actually going on here, I think, is that the North Koreans are doing all this crap in an effort to be considered an important country.  For the last 50 years, their economy has been in the tank, they have had leaders who the rest of the world consider to be a bunch of bad jokes, and they cannot even feed their own people.  They are a basket-case country, on a part with Lesotho or Paraguay--an after thought.  But they think that they can be taken seriously and play on the world's stage, if they have nuclear weapons and long-range missles.  They might be right about that.  They have also calculated that the US is too focused on the Middle East to do much about their arms race.  They are probably wrong on that point.
165535
The Iranian government should be restructured; I'm not sure that an invasion is the best way to do it. But, with their stated goals of wiping out Israel, etc., and their pursuit of nuclear weapons (not nuclear power; they have plenty of oil) they are scary, scary.
435115
VERY possible...depends on how serious Iran is about the destruction of Israel.  i can't think of a country MORE deserving of being nuked into oblivion.
547477
Its not just EU, Russia is ramping up their military again. They are coming out with a lot of new and improved weapons systems. When you read the propaganda about them you almost always read, "able to evade, penetrate, destroy the current US systems." Not sure if they are trying to start the cold war all over again or are putting that info on their sales brochures for market to countries like Iran and North Korea. Why can't we just all get a long?
329547
Yes, the countdown has certainly begun.  This is a time of crises for the world.  I would hope that the used of nuclear weapons against Iran would be the last resort.  Because the first time nuclear weapons are to be used by any nation in an offensive measure, they must prepare to be counter attacked accordingly.  This could easily cause a chain reaction between countries and their allies sparking the Armageddon that we have feared sine the nuclear age has come alive.
39975
in iran?  i don't know.  it seems to be heading that way, but i think that iran will probably end taking the russian's proposal and have their uranium enriched in russia and shipped back to iran for fuel.  They have said that they are considering this option again, after having taken it off the table.  I think they would only bring the option back if they were probably going to do it.  I think they will not risk a war, especially without the support of russia and china.  If it was only the US, they would risk a war, but the rest of the world is against them.  I think their bluff has been called - they wanted to see who would align with and against them and nearly everybody voted to send them to the security council.  Its not the end of the issue, but I don't think there will be war.
616097
No, they have put some pretty lucrative incentives on the table for Iran. The international community agrees to the terms of the offer we have laid out.  The ball is in their court. The next step in this process is how Iran responds, they can slow play as long as the want because they know that the US is in no position to launch an attack. The question is how will we respond to an attack by Israel which is the most likely possibility, once the international community knows for sure that Iran possesses a nuclear weapon.
293010
Man, tell me honestly, do you really want Iran to have nuclear weapons. Forget your equality crap and think logically, do you really want Iran, who wants to kill you, to aquire nuclear weaponery??\nAlso, I think you're a bit misinformed since Pakistan has had a nuclear weapon program since the '70s, claimed they had the technology in the early '80s, and it's main supplier was China, NOT the US.
199734
With the rise in power of countries these days, we are lucky all we need to develope are bunker busting weapons.  Many countries have developed nuclear technology since the end of the "cold" war.  I'd be more concerned with the Iranians and North Koreans obtaining nuclear weapons than with the U.S. developing a weapon that could take out nuclear weapons in their silo's.
591988
Now they are saying they have nuclear warheads.  Before they weren't.  \n\nHowever, I read in the papers during the early days after the fall of Baghdad that Saddam had had a pact with North Korea, that when one of them would become the focus of western enforcement, the other would start a diversion.  They didn't think we could focus on both of them.  No clue if Iran has such a pact with them now, but I did think of that.
14615
You're just playing with us Jim; you don't want to nuke anybody anymore than you want them to nuke you. The real question is should we use cruise missiles to destroy Iran's nuclear reactor/s like Israel did with jets back in '81 to Iraq's reactor/s because they were making the bomb too?\n\nAnswer: No to the nukes, Yes to surgical strikes with cruise missiles, which I believe will eventually happen, unless Israel beats us to it!
344321
Russia wanted Middle East oil alright, but they did it through legally negotiated contracts.  You know, *capitalism*, the thing the US claims to promote?  Then along comes the US, invading Iraq and tearing up legal contracts by forcing a puppet Iraqi government to sell oil (at a cut rate) to the US, effectively stealing Iraq's oil.\n\nMeanwhile, the US does nothing about Israel's well documented nuclear weapons yet makes a big deal out of a non-existent threat from Iran.  If any country in the Middle East _would_ use a nuclear weapon against another country, it's Israel.  Just look at the last 50 years of US-paid atrocities they've perpetrated.  \n\nAnd don't forget, the Gulf Stream goes west to east, so the radiation from an Israeli nuclear weapon would land on a half-dozen islamic countries plus China and India. \n\nIf you think Israel isn't that callous about other people's lives, ask the Lebanese about the million or more cluster bombs left unexploded in their country.  The US and Israel have refused to supply any money to defuse and remove those bombs; instead, Lebanon and the UN will spend billions of dollars clearing land over the next decade.\n\nAnd by the by, it was the US government which posted, on the internet, the technical specifications for building a nuclear weapon.  For more than TWO WEEKS, US government scientists protested and pleaded for the information to be taken off the website.  The Shrub Whitehouse said "No".\n\nDoes anyone _really_ believe anymore that Shrub _isn't_ working collectively with Osama?  (The Shrub and bin Laden families have been doing business for 20 years.)\n\n\n.
203060
The President of Iran has been saying things like this at least once a month for awhile now.  It's obvious that he doesn't like Israel (not many people in the Middle East do) but the only thing he could do about it would be to use chemical weapons against them, since that's all they have right now.  He may be trying to provoke either the US or Israel into a war, or maybe he's just trying to get attention.  I personally think that the only reason they're doing this nuclear program is to deter the US.  Once they have a nuclear weapon, they know that we won't want to mess with them (to avoid a nuclear war).  They've seen how it worked for North Korea, and since they're second on Bush's "Axis of Evil" (Iraq, Iran, and North Korea) they may be just trying to defend themselves against an invasion of their country.
169672
The west should NOT assist any country that is not democratic..period!!!  When Iran turns their nukes toward Israel …..WE will be the first to throw our men and women into harms way!!  And WHY!?  Does someone have the answer to that?  Why should we throw our people into another war in the middle east? For who? For a country that would just as soon through us to the freekin dogs when we no longer are necessary to meet any of their needs???\n\nFor instance Benjamin Natanyahu said…” the cause of the attacks on the United States was a cause of it’s own”  …. Sounds like someone you’d want as an ally now doesn’t it??