If not, how do you think the US and the UN will curb Iran's potential, (but unknown), hostile nucleaur ambitions?  Or are Iran's nucleur ambitions benign? Do they have a right to be left alone or should the US go the whole hog and occupy the entire region now?
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Prepare yourself for the unthinkable, war againsty Iran may be a necessity.\n\nThe UNIMAGINABLE but ultimately inescapable truth is that we are going to have to get ready for war with Iran.\n\nTehran threatended the US with 'harm and pain' for hauling them before the UN Security Council over its nuclear program. The rapidly intensifying crisis is like a train on a collision course.\n\nWhile we were chasing phantom nukes in Mesopotamia, next door, Iran was busy building real ones.\n\nThe unavoidable reality is that we now need urgently to steel ourselves to the ugly probability that diplomacy will not now suffice, one way or another, unconsciounable acts of war may now be unavoidable.\n\nThose who say war is unthinkable are right. Those who say the US should not send young boys to die in the Middle East far from home are right. Those who say war will foster more violence in the Middle East are right.\n\nMilitary strikes, even limited, targeted and accurate ones, will have devastating consequences for the region and for the world.\n\nAll the argument against a strike are fearfully powerful. But multiplied together, squared, and then cubed, the weight of these arguments do not come close to matching the case for us to stop, by whatever means necessary, Iran from becoming a nuclear power.\n\nIf Iran gets safely and unmolested to nuclear status, it will be a threshold moment in the history of the world, up there with the Bolshevik Revolution and the coming of Hitler.\n\nIran has stated that they will 'wipe Israel off the face of the map." They've stated that the 'holocaust was fake.' And the kind of society we live in and cherish in the West will change beyond recognition if Iran becomes nuclear. We balk now at intrusive government measures to tap our phones or other intrusions into our civil liberties. Imagine how much more our freedoms will be curtailed if our government's fear we are just one telephone call or e-mail, one plane journey or truckload away from another Hiroshima.
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The whole scenario has a sense of deja a vu and burdened with inevitabiilty at the same time....a train on a collision course, as it were. I mean the threats, going to the UN, the stubbornness on both sides, the threat (real or unreal) of WMDs.\n\nMost analysts believe Iran is years away from developing an operational nuke, the earliest estimate is 2012. The US is stretched thin in Iraq, the Natanz facility can only be taken out by a tactical nuke, the Iranian president is spouting off about the apocalyptic strain of Islam, ...\n\nShould we let Israel take care of it?? This is what we have to look forward to, if nothing is done....a 2007 nuclear exchange between Israel and Iran, a humiliating retreat from Iraq by US forces overwhelmed by Iranian-backed militias, and a four-year war between a US led coalition and Iranian-backed Shi'ite forces....pretty bleak, huh.\n\nChina and Russia are still 'rational' nuclear powers and still ascribe to the MAD doctrine. The two wild cards in the whole scenario will be N. Korea and Pres. Bush himself, any move on N. Korea's part to instigate defence of Iran or premptive Stike by the US will bring us to the brink of destruction.
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I hadn't thought about this suggestion before. I think it does leave us in a position to monitor them but stay on their good side, which is key. We don't need to make the situation worse, for sure. Do you think Iran would be open to that? If they weren't, is that sign to the UN that their intentions are malicious?
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No one plan to Nuke the US specially Iranian, there are more Irani people in US than you can imagine, just go check your best universities like MIT or Stanford.\nThe only attack to US has done by Bin Laden and if you know he was created by CIA in order to prevent Afghanestan to have a government like Iran and Iranian supported Anti Taliban groups in Afghanestan all the time that US was supporting them, and Iran government yelled that he is a murderer, its not Iranian fault.\nUS don't like Iran to be a nuclear power, its a fact but you must search the reason elsewhere, its not hollywood movies, its politics.\nA nuclear Iran will ruin all power equations in Middle East. Even they can force US to leave the territory. That's the real reason.\nIran has threatened Israel to wipe out of the map for 30 years and nothing actually has happened and will not happen.\nThe main use of Nuke isn't military, its political, look at India and Pakistan, they declared they are both have nukes at the same time. they both have it but it was hidden, when one did a nuclear test the other one did it about a week. Can you get my point?\nAbout Iran and Israel there are many hidden facts that I'm not in the mood to repeat(if you really like to know them ask here or email me)\nAnyways don't worry, we will not nuke you, one who has to worry is me because once nice Americans  attacked an Iranian AirBus which was full of civilan travelers and I'm young and want to live long to see my grandchildren.
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i believe the Iranian President is kinda radical crazy and is pretty much hellbent on controlling other countries in the middle east,Everyone knows he wont be happy till they have nucks,and I believe he will use them, unfortunately for the Iranian people most countries believe that also.He's probably Hitler reincarnate.
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Well now.  A US battle battle group, which consist of aircraft carriers, destroyers, nuclear attack submarines, is capable singly of defeating any power on earth.  And the US has twelve battle groups. So at the very least Iran would be wiped out twelvefold.\n\nRemember how Saddam Hussein's "Mother of all Battles" turned out to be a total non-event.  Iran would simply cease to exist in a matter of days.\n\nAll your conceited, self-serving phony so-called religious rhetoric is useless drivvel.
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It's a threat. They're enriching themselves in uranium and soon will blow up Israel and ignite a world war.  I don't know why the UN is such a pussy on Iran or why Bush hasn't taken a strong action against Iran. If the Bush administration or Israel invades Iran they will have my full support. I don't hate Iranians or muslims but radical islamics are a threat to society. I hope you don't think I'm a bigot.
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We are leaving it up to the Chinese and Japan to deal with North Korea. we will play a meek role in the situation. It will be handled. The sleeping giant of China is an economic gladiator about to wake up. It is in they're economic interest to handle the situation. We will handle Iran with the UN at the forefront this time. By sealing there borders and fend off Muslim extremist while heavy sanction laden the Iranian government. It will fall from within after some surgical bombing is done at the right time.
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Yes, Seneca said that.  Interesting that you would quote him. Do you know what his point was in saying "Be careful that your enemies dont get your weapons"?  Sounds a lot like that quote is very much in support of limiting nuclear proliferation Would it be best if nobody had nukes?  In the 50 years before nuclear weapons were invented, over 100 million people were killed in wars.  And in the 60+ years since, is that true?  If the US destroyed all of it's nuclear weapons, do you seriously believe this would end the problem?  That countries like North Korea and Iran would generously quite trying to build them?  The US, along with the EU, is trying to stop other countries from building nuclear weapons.  Are you trying to say that because the US, France, and the UK, among others, have nuclear weapons, that they should not try to stop proliferation?  Are you saying that the US and those other countries should get rid of their nuclear weapons, and thus would miraculously cause everyone else to stop building them?  Think about it-the US is hated by many powerful countries.  If the US got rid of their nuclear weapons, would that tend to make those countries more eager, or less, to build a weapon that, once the US had none, could aid these other countries in actually defeating the US on a battlefield?  Think through your argument- The US having nuclear weapons may be a problem, but it is unrelated to nuclear proliferation.  And, the US is not leading the battle to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, the EU is.
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Your country's "President" needs to be wiped off the face of this earth and all it's Mullahs stripped of their power and moolah. ;-)\n\nOtherwise, I think we should nuke Iran.
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I think that all countries should disarm. That is not going to happen at least in my lifetime, so the next best thing would be to stop further development of nuclear weapons. Iran has been offered nuclear technology and nuclear reactors for energy generation and has so far rejected this offer. Iran appears to be more interested in weapons development than nuclear technology for peaceful purposes or it would accept technology from the rest of the world and suspend its own internal research. I hope this disagreement between countries will not end at the unfortunate possible outcome which currently has us in Iraq and Afghanistan but as observations will show it is entirely probable  rather than not.
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Yes - Politics. Russia is not cooperating with US efforts to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons (I really detest Cheney and Co. but I think they have a point that Iran shoul dnot have nuclear weapons, and if the UN can the the tool of deterring Iran, that would be great.  The US does NOT want to go war in Iran - they don't have th esoldiers to go to war in IRaq and Afghanistan.  They therefore want the UN to pressure Iran to srop their program, and Russia is blocking this as it has a veto on the UN security council which would be responsible for acting).\n\nCheney is therefore showing Russia that if they don't cooperate, he can cause problems for them too. It is NOT ideology: after slamming Russia he went to Kazakhstan, where the political situation is worse than Russia, and was very friendly, mostly because Kazakhstan has oil, is in Central Asia (the US lost its base in Kazakhstan's neighbor Uzbekistan and may lose its base in another neighbor Kyrgyzstan). All of these Central Asian states are near Afghanistan and Iran.
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Look Iran hates the USA have you ever heard of the Iranian Revolution when Iran took all thoses American Hostages ? USA froze all Iranian Assets, Iran uses its hatred of the USA to try and Unite its people, although of late the young people don't seem to like that attitude that is why the hardliners regained power, The Iranian President is chosen  by the Religious Leaders to run in the election. It would not surprise me if Iran Nuked Los Angeles
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Who cares what those people think.  I'm more interested in preventing iran from franchising out nuclear weapons to all the arab states and then blowing up the world as part of jihad.  Whatever it takes to prevent that is justified and if that includes turning Iraq, Iran, Syria and whomever else needs it into a sheet of glass because the liberals in this country won't allow the necessary oversite to prevent this in a humane way, then so be it.\n\nWhat matters is preventing world war 3, not satisfying idiot liberals.
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Nice ideal, but absolutely impossible. If I was an Iranian Leader, I wouldn't even think about it until I saw several American leaders convicted & successfully impeached. He is well aware our leaders speak with forked tongues.\n\nBy the way, what about this alleged nuclear weapons development? Is it any more real than what was in Iraq? It's the same people saying it, folks. Think. They were never found in Iraq because they never existed. You can hide a bomb, or several bombs, where they are difficult to find. Not true for the facilities that make them. Iran has a facility to enrich uranium for power plants.But nothing has been found suggesting bomb grade uranium, or the facilities to make it. And they are under constant inspection. think.
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Iran has as much right to Nuclear Weapons as any other country which already has. \nIf Iran choses to ingnore the United Nations, why not? USA and England regularly ingnore the UN when they want to attack Yugoslavia, Afganistan, Iraq... but they leave the UN to clean up the mess.\nAs westerners we have no right to criticise people because they see or think differently.\nHowever, many Iranians are brainwashed into hating the west, but here is the final question.. Isn't this what the US and britain is trying to do with all the terrorist stuff?? Where are all the terrorist attacks happening in the west??? We're certainly giving up a lot of freedom because of this threat.
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Yes is we ever allow a nation like Iran to get their hands on nuke technology, first thing they would do is distribute bombs to every nutjob terrorist group to go blow up Israel, Europe, and USA.