Reply #62: OK, more flames for me, but.... [View All]

[FormerRepublican]

You said: "Iran has never threatened the USA." What about the Iranian hostage crisis - that's kinda how this all started (except for the fact that the US propped up the dictator Shah which really started it all, but you know what I mean). That anger toward the US from certain factions in Iran has been ongoing ever since. It's been behind a number of terrorist attacks against the US in the Middle East. Yes, that faction, which unfortunately is currently in charge, do threaten us, even if they don't have the military forces to project their threat to where we live. Consequently, I don't want them to have the bomb (whether we have it or not). And I am furious at Bush for putting us in this horrible position.

Having said that - no, I don't want to go to war with Iran. If nothing else, the Iraq disaster has taught me a few things about caution and that Bush can't be trusted with military materiel. But that leaves us with a problem. What do we do to prevent Iran from getting the bomb? Diplomacy has failed (probably Bushits fault - grrr!!!), and the Europeans have tried diplomacy for many months. We need a new strategy that might work, but I believe Bush is incapable of thinking with anything but tanks and bombs. That's my dilema - I believe something needs to be done to prevent Iran from getting the bomb, but I don't trust Bush to do anything that won't ignite the thing into a major war. Probably one that would get a lot of Americans killed and lead to unknown untold disasters.

So I sit here watching it unfold with my heart in my mouth....