Come on.. Iran doesn't represent a threat to USA at all, and it actually helped US locating Sunni's bombs and arms that they wanted to use against US soldiers in Iraq and in return the US is helping Shiites to rule over Iraqies (politics wise, but the oil is for the US, that's another story). And what Iran is saying about bombing Israel is stupid cause this will mean wiping the Palestenians as well and anyway Israel has a strong armor against missiles.\n\nSo, don't you think that this charade is underestimating the intelligent people? And if this is the technique used by the US government, then Michael Moore could be right after all about 9/11, right?
201415
Everyone with a brain will know it's dull and fake\nand this ritalemay user here is as stupid as stupidity can get and just a f@#$ing brainwashed who doesn't have a mind to think with.
67576
Because the US is a prick who thinks they can control the world. The US is like the evil person in James Boind movies. They think they are very powerful and want to take over the world. Iran is like James Bond. In they end the evil person dies and Bond gets laid.
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It is nice to hear someone, who like the majority of Americans, does not take what their government says for face value.\n\nJust as not every American thinks every Iranian wants to destroy us, I would hope that not every Iranian thinks every American wants to destroy them.\n\nMost Americans, 99% of them, don't want to hate people.  The problem I think, lies within the people who represent our nations.  On one hand you have President Bush and others, who trying to protect our country, have tried to get people to realize that there are fundemental, radical muslims in the middle east who want to kill them.  We don't believe that ALL muslims want to kill us, but there are a large group of them who do.\n\nOn the other hand, you have the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is trying to guide his people towards a certain goal.  I myself have my own, personal opinions on what that goal is, but that would take more time to describe than I have.\n\nSo, it is very hard to descern what the average American or average Iranian believes, when we have very public, very outspoken icons standing up, spouting rhetoric.\n\nSo to you answer your question from a personal persepective, yes I support the current war.  Under Saddam Hussien, the Iraqi people were repressed and did not have the freedom they deserve, to be their own people.  I do not want to kill people.  I simply do not.  As for my government being honest, no.  I would be naive to think that my government is completely honest, but then again, the flip of that coin, is that no goverment is completely honest.\n\nI hold to V's statement "People should not fear their government, goverments should fear the people."
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The former president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, financed terrorist groups like Al-Qaida led by Osama bin-Laden. They were the ones responsible for 9/11 (destruction of NYC's World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon). \n\nI am Canadian. If our federal government was dictatorial, financing terrorism and torturing our people like Hussein's was, I would want another nation to come help dismantle our government. \n\nThe Iraq war was not BS and it wasn't over oil. Look at how high the price of gas is now at your neighbourhood gas station!\n\nThe US is not accusing Iran of having nuclear missiles right now. They are accusing Iran of planning to build them. This is a problem for the world because the president of Ian has publicly stated Israel 'should be wiped off the map'. Iran has recently developed nuclear energy for electrical energy. They have said they are going to develop nuclear weapons.\n\nThe main difference between the US and Iran is that the US has not threatened another country, but Iran has threatened Israel. The US is Israel's biggest ally and cannot stand and do nothing while Israel is threatened.\n\nBy the way, one nuclear missile will destroy an entire city (I mean destroy it completely, nothing left, no trees, no grass, no buildings, no people, nothing!) and wipe out everything around for about 100 miles out. So if you think it's weird that people get upset about having missiles aimed their way, think again!
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Because I think that they are perfectly aware that by the time the first bomb will reach the Iranian land,Israel will cease to exist...Iran has the capability to do this and both US and Israel are perfectly aware of this,otherwise they would have attacked Iran by now...And Israel never cared about world's opinion,so I doubt that they will start now caring about what others say...
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You think we are the ones blinded by propaganda? Think again..We know very well about the growing discontent among Iranian youth in your country...\n\nOfcourse we dont want innocents to die..But it is your country's govt that is the catalyst for all the killing by supplying terrorist networks while waving the flag of peace..\n\nWe know how your president says his is a country of peace, to media in our country, meanwhile he says he will destroy the great satan in speeches to his own people in Iran..\n\nWe know more than you realize...\n\nPropaganda??\n\nIs this Propaganda??\nVideo shows Iranian pilgrims at Hajj, picture of burning WTC tower in background, chanting Death to America, and to cut off the hands of the non believers. Explain away these "peaceful" people to us again. You are all so pathetically entertaining.\nhttp://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=991.#\n\n\nWe have read your Koran and we know how the Saudi's and the wahabbi's have  maniplauted it to serve their bloodlust and have  hijacked Islam.. \n\nIt is up to you and your people to change it... NOT US!
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With every poll showing majorities of Americans both fed up with Bush's war against Iraq and convinced that Bush's invasion of Iraq has made Americans less safe, the White House moron proposes to start another war by attacking Iran. VP Cheney has already ordered the U.S. Strategic Command come up with plans to strike Iran with tactical nuclear weapons.Israel, which is loaded with nuclear weapons and is not a signatory to the nuclear pacts, is the accuser against Iran, asserting that Iran's nuclear energy program is just a veil behind which to produce weapons. Israel's Likud Party fears that Iranian weapons would be a check to its plans to complete the dispossession of the Palestinians and further expand Israel's borders.\n\nIran has signed the nonproliferation pact and is willing for the International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor the nuclear energy program.\n\nBush, however, dismisses all facts and assurances and is willing to attack Iran based on nothing but Israel's paranoia.\n\nBush can ignore the American public and the  the Democrats  have completely collapsed as an opposition party.
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Despite the Anti-American rhetoric from Iran, it doesn't really want to have any major confrontation with the US, especially on a head-to-head basis, as militarily it is far weaker than the US.\n\nIn addition, the US has no real desire at present to send troops into Iran either (it's bad enough fighting battles in both Afghanistan and Iraq without fighting Iran also, since the best combat divisions are already tied up).\n\nIran is well aware that "attacking the US" would provoke a swift and powerful military response in the form of bombings and ship-launched missiles against strategic military targets in Iran, in order to prevent further Iranian attacks. The US would also ensure that Iranian nuclear facilities were well "bombed".\n\nThere would be no need for troops on the ground as the US wouldn't be seeking to invade, merely to punish.\n\nIn some ways an attack on a US ship by Iran would give the US an excuse to attack Iran and halt any nuclear intentions it had for the foreseeable future. \n\nHowever, Iran is not a "helpless kitten".\n\nWhen the USS Vincennes accidentally shot down an Iranian passenger plane, believing it to be a hostile jet, Iran vowed revenge - whatever it took.\n\nLess that 6th months later Pan Am Flight 103 blew up over Lockerbie killing all 270 people on board + 11 townsfolk who were subsequently hit by the falling debris.\n\nAlthough Colonel Gadaffi, who the the favorite whipping boy of the US was blamed, many intelligence agencies outside the US blamed Iran for funding the terrorists and proving the detonators.\n\nThe timing device used on the bomb was found to be similar to a batch sold to Iran 3 months earlier. 3 weeks before the bombing, West German police successful arrested several Arab terrorists who were plotting "to blow up a US plane". Two of the terrorists (now serving 20 years each in a German prison) admitted that Irananian Intelligence had supplied them with money, training and detonators.\n\nSo perhaps the real question is whether the US will cause a confrontation, either deliberably or accidentally with Iran, and how Iran, rather than the US, will react. \n\nMy guess would be a 6 or 7 suicide bombers in Times Square, Wall Street, near the Whitehouse, etc. There is a hell of a lot of "wannabe martyrs" in Iran, but they lack both the training and the funding. Iran can provide both.
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Israel is definitely a flash point in the mideast and a big reason why there is such a reift between the US and most of the Muslim world.   I have no clue why we continue to support them to the extent that we do ---- likley due all the political contributions in the US ---- We let Israel have a secret nuclear weapons cache, but we threaten Iran for the same thing - no wonder we are viewed the way we are.   I am not saying give the land back. but clearly the borders need to be reset and a lot more settlements taken down --- The US policy on Israel has not worked in the US's favor in over 4 decades ---- It really needs to change
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Israel is our problem too, if your a Christian especially. Moses led them out of Egypt to the Holy Land. That is our home to live when Jesus comes back. Why would we allow some country to want them blown up? I wish Iran's good people could over throw the evil leadership, then we wouldn't mind if they had nukes. Just get the supporters of terrorism out!! Please
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I would not call it a threat to its more like a promise.\nMaybe if Iran was to stop shouting its mouth of about the west they might get a little more respect.and Iran Attack Israel not if your soul depended on it.
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GOOOOOOD JOOOOOOB MAN,\ni'm very happy with ur logic,and most of the ppl who answered till now couldnt defeat ur logic,they r all just repeating words they heared in their zionist controlled media like pirots,they even cant convince themself,so they sounded funny.\nWhy do americans think they r better than others ,and they have the right to tell others do this & dont do that,\nEven if Iran want to have nuclear weapons,so what?\namerica and israel & others have tons of them,america used it before cause japan attaked PH with REGULAR WEAPONS so u went and droped 2 NUCLEAR bombs over them kiling and effecting millions of ppl till today (why the second bomb???isnt one enough),and used depleded uranium in the war with Iraq,and threatened too many countries including Iran,\n\nIf the Iranian president talked about whiping israel,also america already whiped Iraq&Afghanistan and occupied them .\n\namerican gov is a TERRORIST gov,and the us president is a radical person and he said before that this is a crusaid war,so he is a terrorist and not stable also.\n\namerica is detaining innocent ppl (&kids)in illegal jails with no trial,which is the same brutal acts of the third world countries which america is using as an excuse to attack & invade them \n\nThe core of the american military power is the nuclear arsenal,and without it ,america cant win a war even if they didnt use it,the threat of having it&the ability to use it while the other part dont ,is enough for america to win,and thats why america dont want anybody to have these weapons.\nSo please guys,i know there is a lot of nic americans,and maybe the majority r,,but they dont care about whats happening in the world they just listen to what the gov want them to beleive & beleive without thinking,and also the phobia of 911,made them beleive that any body who dont agree with there cruel foreign policy is a TERRORIST,and thats not true:)
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I don't know where you heard the American people want to kill you, but it's completely false. The vast majority of the American people want Iranians to have freedom to choose their path in life without fear of an opressive government. Americans would gladly support Irans people in building a free and prosperous nation which would be welcomed with open arms by all nations. The problem is the Iranian government talking about using nuclear weapons in premptive attacks. Its not the people, its the government.
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We so badly screwed the pooch in Iraq that questions about planning scenereos are irrelevant.  It was amaturishly planned, poorly executed, and totlly unjustified.\nA campaign in Iran can only go far worse. They have had plenty of time to obsreve and study the US military operations in order to prepare for an offensive.\n\nAt home, support for the Iraq War wains even further as this country dissolves into civil sectarian war. \n\nI am thnking short of sabre ratteling, there is little the US can do about Iran, except make matters worse by making belocose statements in the UN.  It seems more like we have idiological  neanderthals instead of NEOCONS behind the scenes, only I think neanderthals would act with more intelligence.
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Vow Marianne, don't accept what people claim to be.\nThey announce that everyone who sign up for this Suiside Bombing show will get a raise on his paycheck and you can imagine how many people will sign up , they usually force some of Military people to join it and they happily accept it for few days off. They will march once and go back to their homes.\nA suiside bomber needs to be a little insane because of very bad circumstances, he needs to think he is doing it for God, freedom, his country and his family, this is possible for a Palestinian not an Iranian.\nHave you heard of any suiside bombing done by Iranians? You can check 9/11, Israel and Iraq suiside attacks and all the sources you have. Have you heard any Iranian in Al-Quada?\nEven religious Iranians don't like such acts, they rather to go Iraq as a pilgrim instead of terrorist.\nIranian has threatened Israel for 30 years,  no harm to Israel has done by Iran, I mean it is true that Iran supports some of Anti Israel groups a little but US has a Anti Iran budget, we can call it even.\nIran and Israel relationship is too complicated, many famous Jews are from Iran, Jews are really free in Iran(Like everywhere else they are in Business), they have same enemies(Arabs don't like Iranians too, they call Iranians Ajam which means shallow people and Iranians can't forget what Arabs did when they capture Iran just once), Farsi is a spoken language in Israel(this one is from wikipedia) and many other facts that I can't remember now.\nAnyways I can't understand why Pakistan who has supported Bin Laden and Taleban can have nukes and Iran can't use it for peaceful energy making, Iran and West will find a political solution for enrichment problem as soon as West come with a good offer, Iranians know that US can't invade Iran right now and UN will not support any attack on Iran(because of good relations with China and Russia) so they are playing a political game.\nI personally recommend you not be affraid of any of 52,000 Iranians suiside bombers, this is just a show.\nEdit: Ok, this Iraqi dude made me to give some facts that are not related to the subject at all and I don't like to discuss them here but there is no other choices.\n1. During a declared war and against military forces there  anything except chemical and nuclear weapons isn't prohibited, it is not a terrorist act against civilians, I don't know what you've heard about Iranian suiside bombers during Iran-Iraq war, there was some going into mine territory actions to open the road for others because Saddam had a taste for land mines.\nI think our government was absolutely right about liberating Iraq from Saddam, that is exactly  why US army is in Iraq now, we wanted to liberate you from a heinous dictator that use chemical weapon against you(Like Shalamche where thousands of Iraqi civilians died with Saddam chemical weapons) and some years next did a great massacre against Shiie people .\nOf course I'm with Israelis, that's not my problem, that's not my people problem, I don't care what they do to Arabs there, most of my people don't, Arabs problems are for their own, I have told before, its a tradition for Iranians to say wipe out Israel, nothing has done and will be done. Of course Iran has missles which can reach Israel, it is not a secret, Iran has tested them and US has seen the test, I have told here, these weapons have political uses not military ones, Iranians don't want a war, Iran president knows it.\nAbout our people, we are a multi race country, Arabs are those who you know about, we have Kurds, Lors, Torks, bakhtiari, Afghans, Armani, Ashuri(these are remains of the ancient civilization of Ashur and they are christians) and other races that I can't remember now, there isn't any problem within us, I haven't heard of any racial violence.\nYou have named Ahwas, I am Half Khuzestani, of course from a special tribe there who are no
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Iran has the >>inalienable right >> as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes and that's exactly what Iran is doing. \n\nWe all know that the US - Israel & Europe suspect the Iranian Govt. of hiding a weapons program, but they have absolutely no proof to back up these claims. \n\nWhy should we believe the West over Iran, bearing in mind the intellegence fiasco vis-a-vis Iraq and the terrible inhuman consequences emanating from that??\n\nAll US Govt. official refers to Iran's diceit and urges Iran to live up to its international responsibilities under the NPT .. sounds good .. until one realizes just how laced with hypocrisy these statemens really are.
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I don't think this is true  - I can't find any evidence of it in the news.\n\nThe US wants to make war on Iran so maybe this is part of the lead up - "lets make everyone see than Iran are the enemy now"