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Com'on. Iraq was a political war and had nothing to do with terrorist regardless of what the Party Line was at the time. People were basically incited to invade Iraq because there was no real reason to do it. Iran is a different story altogether and I don't think anyone is arguing for a full-scale invasion.You tell me, we spent $2 trillion dollars going to war with them and it didn't make us any safer! It would be more than silly to repeat the same mistake in Iran, wouldn't it?
I'm not sure all 22 targets need to be taken out. Cut any link in the chain and the chain is useless.I don't know how limited strikes are possible with 22 deeply embedded targets .. and without a massive slaughter of civilians.
Also (and I'm not one of these people) you're just feeding the maw of those who wanted to take military action a year ago. Had we taken out the targets before they were buried things would have been much simpler. We saw them doing it and should have bombed them, then. At least that's what our Hawks would say.
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I went looking for that but couldn't find the info easily and put it on the back burner. Thanks!Absolutely no other country in the world is as good as the US at this. No other country in the world spends the billions the US does at preventing civilian casualties. The best way to do this this hit your target and only your target. Blasts wasted on anything but the target are wasted blasts.
Lastly, the latest deep penetrators the US has can blow through 200ft of hardened concrete. If that's not enough, well then 200 ft of material have been removed or rendered ineffective. The next one will surely have the desired effect. Iran's very expensive buried facilities have no chance. Honest negotiations are Iran's only real opportunity.
Oh, and only a few of Iran's nuclear facilities are deeply embedded. Everyone talks about them, but the deeply embedded ones are the minority. Most are very easily removed targets with common munitions.
The rest of your post deserved repeating.
As a memory spur to those that forgot, don't you remember the first guided bomb videos from Iraq? Targeting and hitting a single building in the middle of Baghdad? Even getting pretty close to the floor of the building we wanted to hit? And that was a decade ago - technological progress doesn't stop.
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