what if iran attacts america with WMD. is some contingency plan ready.?
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The policy of the United Stated is that we will respond to any attack on us using weapons of mass destruction with our own weapons on mass destruction - in an irrational and overwhelming manner.\n\nIran knows this - and I seriously doubt that they want to go there.
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if true then it is only a matter of time before it happens america should stop wasting it's time pursuing fake wmds in iraq and look to iran these guys have the real stuff ,iraq was just a bluff.israel dosent need help,in the words of mr.ahmedinejad , I dont know if iran can but, israel has the capability to wipe off dirt.
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I think we shouldn't give up diplomatic efforts until a) it is clear  that diplomatic efforts won't work or b) we are convinced that Iran is just using the delay to press full speed ahead towards a weapons program.\n\nHowever, from what I hear from the EU as well as the US, b) isn't far away, unfortunately.
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that is possible, if Iran has nuclear weapons we will need the best units to be stealthy and precise to ensure that they are destroyed rather then a whole bunch of regular soldiers knocking on the front door with a machine gun and smoke grenade.
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Interesting question.Many fanatics and sects said it would happen on Aug 22 2006 when the Iranians gave their reply\non the nuclear programs and many believed that would start\nWW3 but thats unlikely.First the U.S would impose sanctions and all of those diplomatic things.Sadly in WW3 the U.S will learn\nthat all countries will not give up after nuclear missiles glass them\nas many Americans today believe that its an easy solution and we can just "Nuke em like Japan".WW3 is more likely in the next decade when Iran does get nuclear weapons.Infact they would\nhave the resources to produce 250 nuclear bombs yearly just\nwith the resources they have.The enrichment progress\nwhich will not be solved  or halted as promised by the leader will complete in 6 years time or that is what they said last year but the basic part of enrichment will complete in March 2007 and yet it will take 5 to 6 years for him to be a real nuclear threat or to the point of causing a world wide panic and causing a WW3.The\npoint when Iran would have to be attacked is wheen they gain\nthe weapons.As promised by the leader of Iran he himself\nbelieves that he was sent to Earth just to start WW3. He believes\nits his duty to bring judgement day as well as build an Islamic Empire.He believes that he must capture Jerusalum.Well at this point most would say he is crazy but thats what they said about\nHitler. But Hitler was given the time he needs to build his Army\nand Navy as well as Airforce.The only mistake he made was\nto reasearch nuclear technology after the wae had begun and it\nwas not in their interests as Berlin was being captured and they \nneeded the money to do something else.Even without nukes or perhaps 2 nuclear bombs 50-65 million people died in WW2.\nMukmude Ahmadinejad is more smarter then that and he building\nhis Armies as well as nukes before acting on the world.In a speech he said "What is the security council anyway?The whole\nworld knows that America and England are enemies of Iran".\nAnd hundreds of thousands are seen clapping and cheering.\nHe also makes other remarks "If you want to have peace with Iranian people then you should acknowledge the might and the\nright of the Iranian people,if you do not do this,the Iranian people\nwill force you to bow and surrender"again hundreds of thousands\ncheer.and applause and say "death to America" and "death to Israel".By this you can see that he is serious.His people are with him.All the Peresians are with him.Its not like Iraq when there are insurgents against Saddam and Sunni's and Shii and Kurds\nkill each other.With Iran they aere all with him ready to lay down\ntheir lives.As many nukes as the U.S may send theywill sill move into Iraq and toward Jerusalum in an attempt to seize it.The\npeople will not care if nukes take their lives and the Iranian regime will not either.They will do anything possible to try\nand destroy Israel.Unlike Japan they are willing to die for their religion and insane prophecy.I mean if you see these quotes by\nhim said to the Iranian people you will notice that he is up fo\nsomethin or in his case preparing for something. "I say\nto the leaders of some western country,stop supporting these corrupt people,behold the rage of the muslim people is accumulating,the rage of the muslim people may soon reach\nthe point of explosian".These are the kinds of things that Adolf\nHitler said.He wanted to establish a world empire and he wanted\nto make nuclear weapons he just made a mistake by doing those things during the battle.Otherwise Iran is preparing.Many\ntimes their president ha said again and again that he wishes \nto wipe Israel of the map as well as to run an Islamic empire\nlike acient Babalyon.He made plans for his world as well.\nBy these statements he made you get the gut feeling he is ready\nfor something.I mean it might not happen but its likely that we may see a WW3 in 2012 or anytime around that.The
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Iran should be nuked but better if they should be warned first to make amends to their nuclear arms program.
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They need something over there to be bombed.  I think a few cruise missiles are in order simply to wake up ahmadinejad and scare the sheet out of him.  There must be some actions and repercussions for what they are doing.  If there aren't, why would they ever stop?  It needs to be done now BEFORE they have a nuclear arsenal.  Same goes for north korea.
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Not going to happen. Europe and the US going to war with Iran is a possibility.
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look, iran doesnt have the equipment to enrich uranium enough for weapons grade, thats it. no matter what youve been told or think you know. listen to dr. prather, the guy with 43 years atomic energy/weapons expirience. HEs the guy the UN sends in when they want to know what up. http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/InterviewDisplay.aspx?i=131\nstop with the paranoia. bush decided long ago to go in, dont worry, youll get your war.
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Wont be the Iranians, it'll be terrorists who get or steal it from Iran. \n\nDepends on what group and the size of the weapon. Hopefully it's DC but we wouldn't be that lucky.  New York, LA, Houston and Chicago would be prime targets.  New York and Chicago offer very dense population areas. A downtown nuke in either could kill hundreds of thousands. \n\nLA and Houston are very spread out. So it'd take more nukes or a much bigger nuke. They however offer very tempting targets such as Hollywood in LA and the Oil refineries, Bush sr's hometown, NASA in Houston. In any coastal city it's possible a nuke could trigger a tsuami as well. This means that folks in other continents might die from the terrorist blast. Something the terrorists would like celibrate all the more but likely would not even consider.  \n\nSecondary effects would be the destruction of fishuaries around the target. In the case of Houston much of the Gulf of Mexico which would heavily damage or destroy shrimping for both US and Mexico. Same with LA. East coast it'd prob damage half the fishing in the East coast. Then there is the fallout which would touch much of the world including the Middle East. Who of course would somehow blame the US for it. That assumes that the US does not retaliate with nukes of thier own, an assumption I would not make if I were a terrorist. Isreal might nuke some Arabs as a pre-emptive strike though Tel Aviv would be more likely to be nuked than any American or European city. \n\nSo the realistic answer is who cares what city was nuked. The response would lead to other nukes being used and potentially the end of mankind. The Middle east would cease to be inhabitable, Europe and Africa not far from it. Asia possibly and the entire world would suffer even from a very limited nuclear exchange. So if the goal of the terrorists was to exterminate the Arab race nuking a US, Isreali or European city would be a very good way to go about it. The WTC sparked a deep simering anger in Americans. Isreal would not hesitate to launch pre-emptive strikes and even Europe might find millions of dead as incentive for a temporary lapse of reasoning.  Even if world Govs were able to react in a restrained mannor private citizens would have no difficulty getting nukes from sympathetic places and using them against Arab nations. The anger would be one no Gov could control. \n\nIn short it's best we don't ever find out by keeping Iran and other unstable inmature nations from ever getting nuclear weapons.
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No, I don't think America should do this. They must learn from their past experiences...(Vietnam, Iraq..). Its the war of OIL. and let me tell you that Iran is not Iraq or Vietnam, and America knows it very well.\nAnd why the hell Americans love to be the global POLICE. They have everything with them(Nuclear weapons), but nobody else could have it. What is this non sense.
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I would also have to agree.\nAlso it is presumbly part of a ploy in order to get Iran to operate in a way that is more acceptable to the West.
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America’s Options Against Iran. Iran’s nuclear program is a matter of concern. The real question, of course, is “what can the United States do about it?”\n\nThe options are negotiate, launch aerial attacks to take out the nuclear program, or to enact regime change through one means or another. Negotiation is not exactly an option – Iran has pretty much ruled out any deal that would limit its nuclear weapons program. There is also the fact that the Israelis will not patiently sit by while the Iranians use negotiations to buy time to continue their nuclear weapons development. These two factors leave only the option of stopping the program through air attacks or regime change.\n\nAir attacks have huge problems. Iran has a widely-dispersed nuclear program. There are at least 23 cities (plus uranium mines) in this program. However, targeting does not just involve the nuclear program. Iran also has a huge missile program. There are 40 cities or islands involved with Iran’s missile program, which also would need to be hit – so as to limit or preferably eliminate delivery options for the Iranians. This means at least 63 sites have to be hit in order to guarantee a major disruption to the Iranian nuclear program and its delivery system.\n\nThe type of air attack involved would probably be on the order of the first day of the 1991 Gulf War, in which a devastating air attack was launched over a month’s time. Even that devastating attack was not enough to prevent Saddam Hussein from launching missiles against Israel and Saudi Arabia in the 1991 Gulf War. In 2003, special operations forces were able to prevent a large number of launches, but their use is a huge step forward. Iran has some modern planes (particularly the MiG-29 Fulcrum), but the majority of their aircraft are old F-14As, F-4 Phantoms, J-7 Fishbeds, and F-5E Tigers. An air campaign would be able to hit the sites, and degrade the program. Iranian response would unpredictable, though.\n\nThe best option to guarantee a halt to Iran’s nuclear weapons program is to overthrow the imams. There are two ways this can be done; sponsoring the domestic opposition (which has significant popular support), or through an invasion. The former option has worked in the past. In the 1980s, the CIA was able to keep the Polish Solidarity movement functioning as an opposition movement despite martial law and opposition by the Polish and Russian secret police. That said, the effort took eight years, and the CIA back then was run by William Casey. Today’s CIA has become more of a bureaucracy, and much more risk-averse. The other problem with such an effort is that the situation in Iran is markedly different in two respects: Poland did not have a lengthy history of sponsoring terrorist attacks, nor was that country trying to develop nuclear weapons.\n\nThe other option is an invasion. This is probably the touchiest option. Currently, Iraq involves 17 American  brigades and three division headquarters. Afghanistan involves another division headquarters and three brigades. The 2nd Infantry Division is pretty much committed to defending the Republic of Korea. Two more divisions are carrying out peacekeeping in various parts of the world (the Sinai, Kosovo, and Bosnia being major deployments on that front). This is seven out of 24 divisions available (12 active, 8 National Guard, 3 active Marine, one reserve Marine). The Army is arguably stretched thin, since some divisions will have returned from Iraq or Afghanistan. Until the situation in Iraq stabilizes or additional divisions are formed up, that will remain the case. Iraq has become an insurgency, and those take time (usually five to ten years). Iran would, in all likelihood, develop a similar insurgency. That will further tie down American forces in the region.\n\nThe options against Iran are limited, in large part due to the “peace dividend” of the 1990s, in which eight active-duty and four National Guard divisions were dis
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Under Bush anything is a possibility.\nProbably even nuking them.\nFrom Bush's track record, we can see that he cares less for humn lives that are non-American.\nHe would certainly try to nuke them if the need arises.\nPakistan has no reason to nuke Iran. Wrong guess.\nthis might brighten up some of your participants....read on:-\n\nDecember 28, 2005  \nNuking Iran With\nthe UN's Blessing \nOnly the American people can stop it  \nby Jorge Hirsch \nIn the "global war on terror," Iran is the next target, having been designated by the U.S. State Department [.pdf] as "the most active state sponsor of terrorism" in the world. The United Nations has given its blessing, and the U.S. will fill in the blanks. \n\nBefore we analyze this, however, let us ask ourselves: why not Florida instead? In fact, Florida should be way ahead on the list. Family considerations should not play a role in U.S. policy decisions. \n\nLet's compare the cases. For Florida: \n\n\nAt least 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers had Florida connections. \nThirteen of the 19 were in Florida before Sept.11. \nEight of the hijackers took flying lessons in Venice, Fla. \nFive of the hijackers trained in Florida gyms. \nTwo of the hijackers got drunk in a Hollywood, Fla. bar a few days before the attack. \nInstead, the connections between 9/11 and Iran are much more tenuous, according to the 9/11 Commission: \n\n\n"Senior al-Qaeda operatives and trainers traveled to Iran to receive training in explosives" in 1993. \n"Iran facilitated the transit of al-Qaeda members into and out of Afghanistan before 9/11, and some of these were future 9/11 hijackers." \n"We have found no evidence that Iran or Hezbollah was aware of the planning for what later became the 9/11 attack." \nThe 9/11 hijackers used planes, not explosives. So I very much hope that the Pentagon is revising its Nuclear Strike Plan. A precision-guided missile with a nuclear warhead – or a low-yield nuclear gravity bomb – should be effective in vaporizing both aboveground and underground facilities of Huffman Aviation School in Venice, Fla., with minimal collateral damage. \n\nThe fact is, terrorists do not need "state sponsors" to do their job. The 9/11 hijackers lived in the U.S., rented apartments, opened bank accounts, got drivers licenses, rented cars, took English lessons, had jobs, joined gyms, learned the needed flying skills, bought their box-cutter knives, and blew themselves up in the good old United States. And so will the next terrorists who strike us. \n\nFurthermore, some of the 9/11 hijackers lived and studied in Hamburg, Germany. And they met in Madrid. So are Hamburg and Madrid next on the strike list? \n\nDoes anybody really believe that the "training camps" in Afghanistan played any significant role in 9/11? Can somebody please explain what exactly the 9/11 hijackers learned at those training camps that they couldn't learn elsewhere? \n\nDoes anybody really believe that the purported meeting, which in fact never took place, of Mohamed Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague would have played a significant role even if it had taken place? \n\nYet we are embarked in a "global war of terror" in response to the 9/11 attacks that has led to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and is about to lead to a U.S. nuclear attack against Iran. \n\nBecause make no mistake, an aerial attack on Iran that will include low-yield nuclear bombs is the next step in the "global war on terror," unless something extraordinary happens to derail it. \n\nThe "Legal" Framework \n\nThe United States invaded Iraq under the pretext of enforcing UN Security Council resolution (UNSCR) 1441. Bush stated in his address to the nation on March 17, 2003, \n\n"On November 8th, the Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1441, finding Iraq in material breach of its obligati
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Right now we are heading to a war in Iran if Iran keeps up with WMD's.  A war on Civilisation is still verry unlikly the U.S. never had a war like that before.
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since Iran does not have WMD's and has never attacked any one (unlike US and Israel) this isn't going to happen.\n\nIn a fantarsy world though I 'd give a toss because my tax money wont go to financing Israel forever.. it would hopefully go to take care of people who need health and education here (Israel has free healthcare, America does NOT)
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Be real.  It's not just the US concerned about it, it's pretty much the rest of the world.  Iran cannot be trusted with it and that's that, their government is always unstable and you don't know who'll be controlling the nukes next year.