OK, I'm going to get flamed - I think Iran is dangerous, we should worry. [View All]

[FormerRepublican]

Having said that, I think Bush, Cheney, and all their war/oil hungry pals have put us in a horrible position to try to deal with the situation. IMO, we're so overstretched with Iraq that even if Iran was an immediately critical problem seriously threating our national security (for real, not a Bush fake), we could not respond militarily due to the strains on our military. Unless Bushitler starts up a draft - which he might. And raises taxes significantly - which he won't. And gets the US public behind him - which is iffy after his Iraq lies.

I don't believe for one second that those idiots in the White House are smart enough to understand that we're in a really, really bad position to do anything militarily about Iran. I think they're planning to act anyway, and they're thinking it will be a cake walk, just like they did about Iraq. They don't learn from their mistakes.

I personally DO NOT want to see Iran with a nuclear bomb because unlike others here on DU, I DO believe they would use it - either against Israel or us or someone else who publishes cartoons. A nuke armed Iran is a danger to the entire world. My preference is to deal with it diplomatically, but with Iran's current political makeup I think that hope is impractical. But if the only alternative is the use of some kind of force, we're not in a position to do that either. We're left sheet out of luck in heck with a handbasket because Bush and his pals wanted a little adventure in Iraq.

Now if Iraq had gone the way they wanted and been a cakewalk to a US Welcome Wagon, we'd be sitting pretty to deal with Iran because we've got them surrounded (although that doesn't justify what was done in Iraq in any way, mind). But Bush and his boys have terminal over-optimism (as in it gets people killed) when it comes to military action. They simply CANNOT understand that sometimes things go very, very wrong. They think anti-war protesters were the reason we failed in Vietnam, rather than leadership issues that put us in a bad war and failed to manage it properly. So, because they failed to learn from our past history, they're repeating it. And no doubt blaming anti-war protestors for Bush failures in Iraq.

Iraq is bad enough. But I think they're going to make an even worse move by acting militarily against Iran with piss poor planning, no military or other resources, and 'heck of a job' Bush in charge. That scenario looks to be as dangerous for the US as a nuclear armed Iran. That's what worries me as I watch this unfold...