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- inactive, on 07/09/2008, -34/+157Iran has every right to defend itself if need be. ...and I'm American!
- medfreak, on 07/09/2008, -15/+98Quote >>> "White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe called on Iran to "refrain from further missile tests if they truly seek to gain the trust of the world"."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7496765.stm
Hahaha, so if Iran tests something out it loses world trust but if Israel does this:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/US_Israeli_military_ ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/washington/20ira ...
And the US doing this thousands of miles away from its country just a few kilometers from the coasts of Iran:
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Two_US_Carriers_In ...
It is perfectly acceptable? Is Bush trying to set a new hypocrisy world record before he leaves? - AAK15, on 07/09/2008, -10/+66Great we're going to go to war with Iran just to protect Israel... can't we ever just worry about ourselves first?!
Pardon my ignorance but why does the US care so much about Israel anyway? - slen7, on 07/09/2008, -29/+84I'm sure McCain just blew a load in his pants. He's looking for any excuse to pounce on Iran. I hope he never becomes president.
- projectstartrek, on 07/09/2008, -8/+52shh...the government might get you!
- compu73rg33k, on 07/10/2008, -1/+43Yeah seriously. It's not like the threats from US and Israel should be taken lightly either. Iran doesn't have to travel far to see what the US will do...invasion & lynch
- Cadenzah, on 07/09/2008, -15/+45US and Israel warmongering = incentive for countries like Iran to develop nukes.
The world's biggest superpower has attacked two of Iran's neighboring countries in less than six years, and now the war-rhethoric is directed at them. And they have the indecency to test their missile defence?! SHOCK AND AWE! - StingingNettle, on 07/10/2008, -3/+32There is this Iranian family that owns this coffee shop right by where I live. They are very nice people, and they have some pics up on their wall from their trip to Iran. Its a very beautiful country. I hope these mad men don't start bombing Iran.
- inactive, on 07/09/2008, -11/+39But it's perfectly ok that Israel has them, a country which has literally attacked ALL its neighbours in the last 60 years. Whereas Iran has not attacked anybody for over a century. And it's ok for India, it's ok for Pakistan, it's ok for all of Iran's neighbours. And when Israel does a dry run for an attack on Iran, that's perfectly ok, no worries.
- fireashes, on 07/09/2008, -24/+47F*ck Neocons and warmongers.
- PhilLesh69, on 07/10/2008, -0/+22No.
Only America has the right to "defend" itself.
All the others are militaristic, warmongering, terrorist supporting, extremist, evil, improper, not very nice, return their library books late, pass bad checks, women abusing, drive too fast, don't care for the children, want to end western civilization, ROGUES!!!!! - nianator, on 07/09/2008, -9/+27Bottom line is that as long as Israel has nuclear arms, you can be sure that Iran will as well.
- da_bradler, on 07/10/2008, -5/+23Man I still can't believe they hung Saddam. What kind of message does that send to the rest of the world? don't piss us off or we'll invade your country and hang your leader?
and yes i know technically Americans didn't hang Saddam but handing a prisoner over to a government now led by a religious group that is on opposite side of a religious civil war is a akin to throwing him into a pit of wolves. As far as the rest of the world is considered America hung him and that... is not something countries are still supposed to be doing. - mfc5200, on 07/10/2008, -2/+19What trust do they need? What country have they invaded in the past 50 years? None. Actions speak stronger than words.
the US on the other hand invaded both their direct western and eastern neighbors. If I were in their shoes I would be exactly what they are doing, creating a strong defense. - blanketfury, on 07/10/2008, -1/+17" I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." --- Albert Einstein
I've always wanted to learn how to use a spear. - bepart, on 07/10/2008, -9/+26I don't understand why the world condemned this but not when Israel flew 100 fighters to rehearse an attack on Iran. Israel has more dangerous missiles than this doesn't she?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_missile - medfreak, on 07/09/2008, -3/+19"Our oil"
How exactly is a natural resource located in a country tens of thousands of miles away from your borders yours again? - STPZ, on 07/10/2008, -1/+17They can watch what you post on digg now, remember silly
Thank you Mr. Overlord Bush, may I have another? - slen7, on 07/09/2008, -2/+17Treating with nuclear weapons? I'm going assume you mean threatening to use nuclear weapons. If you’re going to take a preemptive strike against a country you’d better damn well be sure you’ve got your facts strait.
- medfreak, on 07/09/2008, -3/+16A nuclear development program for power, not weapons. If you read the report they acknoledge and everyone knows that Iran was developing Nuclear capability, but it also states that they halted any military nuclear purposes. And the report was late last year, not old.
- inactive, on 07/10/2008, -0/+13You have no idea how ignorant and misinformed you are.
- DreKor, on 07/10/2008, -1/+14It turns out, Americans are entitled to a whole bunch of rights "automatically" when they're born. That's part of why I like living here. Whether or not a person chooses to exercise those rights is a different matter.
- inactive, on 07/10/2008, -1/+13Perhaps the CIA should not have overthrown Iran's democratically elected government in 1953 ( viz. Operation AJAX ).
- PhilLesh69, on 07/10/2008, -1/+13Latentk, before you try to make an intelligent statement, you should be sure that you are informed about what you are speaking about.
Saddam never had a "brief stint in Guantanamo Bay". He was held in an American Military jail in KUWAIT. Then he was handed over to the government set up by an occupational force.
It would be no different than if Charles de Gaulle were executed by Phillipe Petain, the leader of the Vichy French (a German occupied French Government.) - whitecranberry, on 07/10/2008, -1/+14The only serious problem we face today is special interests using ***** excuses and religion to con the public into allowing them to continue to threaten the sovereignty of other countries. LEAVE IRAN THE ***** ALONE. Let Israel handle its own issues, they seem to manage well by themselves anyways. That ***** is on the other side of the world and is not any ***** threat to the US what-so-ever. Let the neighbors of Iran worry about them.
Occurs to me that perhaps the US should look inward like how their "democracy" is quickly turning into a police state and how the general level of idiocy on the rise, and fast.
You all need to smarten up people.. All of you. - B08ama, on 07/10/2008, -0/+12This one looks pretty toasty, actually.
- inactive, on 07/10/2008, -3/+15This thread is chock full of *****.
- medfreak, on 07/10/2008, -3/+14Iran's military does not exist beyond Iran's borders, while US's military has hundreds if not thousands of bases all over the world, and has a leader that claims God talks to him directly.
Remind me, who wants to take over the world again? - AAK15, on 07/09/2008, -2/+13lol "The United States, which has bases in the Middle East, has tried to downplay the possibility of a war with Iran but has warned Iran it will not allow it to interfere with oil shipments in the area. "
- publiclurker, on 07/10/2008, -0/+10I prefer ice cream treats, but to each his own, I guess.
- m0tbaillie, on 07/10/2008, -1/+12What the ***** does Saudi Arabia have to do with anything besides oil?
And 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11... - ZenMojo, on 07/10/2008, -2/+11"Officer, that woman tased me!"
"You were on her porch pointing a gun at her."
"I know, but that was no reason for her to get violent." - fireashes, on 07/09/2008, -3/+12who wants to believe that... War is the time to make money. Israel will attack first and then iran will defend itself and Israel will defend itself
- DreKor, on 07/10/2008, -2/+11Here's how it works. It is not ok for any new countries to develop nuclear weapons. But, once a country has moved out of the development phase, it's fine. You see, it has to be fine because, once they have nukes, they can use them and everyone else has to respect that power.
- bosssmiley, on 07/10/2008, -0/+9It's a shame that ordinary people get their lives ruined by f*cking politicians in all countries.
Never met an Iranian who didn't seem like a decent person; never met a politician who did. - medfreak, on 07/10/2008, -3/+11Why? Because Bush says so so it is true? If your intelligence claims it Iran had WMDs it would be true, but if they say it stopped all nuclear military activity many years ago it would not?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/ni ...
Keep listening to Bush. - inactive, on 07/10/2008, -2/+10This was expected after all that military posturing by Israel last week. It's all a bunch of ***** if you ask me.
- Azerael, on 07/10/2008, -1/+9Uh oh they're going to fly planes into your house, quick, run to daddy McCain and sleep in his bed!
- randomstupid, on 07/10/2008, -1/+9America what is up with your government ? 'Axis of Evil' ? 'Obliteration' ? Great way to make friends and influence people - don't be surprised the little guy is showing off and talking tough to a bully .
Your great nation is being wasted by the idiots in charge who don't know what dialogue is . - TheMoniker, on 07/10/2008, -0/+7Bertrand Russell apparently used to give the following test to see if someone was an optimist or a pessimist. It was a simple question: if you had the ability to destroy the Earth with the push of a button, would you?
- neko6, on 07/10/2008, -0/+7Phil - you're SO misinformed, it hurts. The US aid to Israel started after Israel supplied the US with a working MIG21 in the middle of the cold war, circa 1980. There was no meaningful US aid, political or military, during the wars of 1967 and 1973, and there was no US involvement in Israeli nuclear capability. Unofficial sources claim that the French supplied the missiles and South Africa supplied the nuclear technology.
- inactive, on 07/10/2008, -0/+7Claims!
- medfreak, on 07/09/2008, -10/+17Yea everyone all of a sudden forgot this:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/ni ...
And just continue to believe Bush's lies again. When the hell will you people learn? - vinod1978, on 07/10/2008, -6/+13Israel has attacked Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and now threatens to attack Iran. The Iranians are more afraid of Israel then the United States by far. Though I believe that Israel has the right to protect itself when it is threatened by other nations I think it's time the US gave Israel a bit of a time out. Israel could easily start WWIII. Don't get me wrong - Bush would love to do it, but we are fresh out of resources, and have been for quite a while (as it is showing in Afghanistan). We need to offer Iran some incentives; some type of guarantee that we will not occupy their country as long at it stops developing nuclear power and allow UN Inspectors to search everywhere & anywhere. Things like financial aid, shared technology, removal from the "terrorist watch list", and the start of real trade are diplomatic solutions to a problem that could potentially cause the loss of millions of lives.
- PhilLesh69, on 07/10/2008, -3/+9CDWMobile,
Firing off 1,000 mile range missiles doesn't make them still pursuing nuclear weapons (though it also doesn't mean they aren't) -- You are confusing things, like you are supposed to, in order to believe that Iran is a direct and imminent threat.
All they've done is demonstrate that they can deliver a warhead directly on Israel, who just recently demonstrated to Iran that they could attack them, by running training missions with that direct goal.
This is called "tit-for-tat". Nothing more.
We are only being riled up by the media because there is an agenda by the neocons that wishes to see this blow up into a full scale war. - randomstupid, on 07/10/2008, -3/+9they're defending their pride . people don't like being called evil .
- vinod1978, on 07/10/2008, -2/+8@Kizilbash - Israel was allowed to obtain nuclear weapons because all of their neighbors threatened their very existence, and the US thought that we needed at least one ally in the region. But what good is any ally in the region if everyone in the region hates that ally? They will just hate you by proxy. So the real problem here is policy. We have to respect Israel's right to exist, and to protect itself from countries that wish it harm - and I believe we should continue to support them on that issue. However, that does not mean that we allow Israel to do whatever they want to without consequence, and that is what both republicans & democrats are guilty of doing.
- emko00, on 07/10/2008, -6/+12this is sooo funny
"They should also refrain from further missile tests if they truly seek to gain the trust of the world. The Iranians should stop the development of ballistic missiles, which could be used as a delivery vehicle for a potential nuclear weapon, immediately."
first they don't let them to build nuclear energy now they don't want them to build missiles? yet Americans are putting missiles aimed at Iran in Poland WTF.Whats next you cant build airplanes because u might be able to load nukes into them just like the Americans did with Japan ? Maybe America should stop the plan to have missiles in Poland and Israel shouldnt do any more exercises on attacking Iran then maybe Iran can trust u guys LOL - michaelpinto, on 07/09/2008, -9/+15Unless you haven't noticed we have troops in both Afghanistan AND Iraq which bother border Iran. And this is as much about Saudi Arabia as it is about Israel...
- jimmiss, on 07/10/2008, -0/+6If you guys fight Iran you will get ***** UP. Vietnam style.
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