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Should we bomb Iran to prevent their getting nuclear weapons

Should we bomb Iran to prevent their getting nukes?

  • yes

    Votes: 9 18.8%
  • no

    Votes: 39 81.3%

  • Total voters
    48
  • Poll closed .
There is a subtle, but significant difference between a country of primarily Christians, as a majority religion, and a government based on, and intricately tied to the Christian religion in matters of law.

Obviously some people don't understand how our government works.
 
The US is the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons on innocent people. What makes us beyond reproach?

Innocent people? Gee, we killed the enemy we had been fighting for years and brought an end to the war without costing millions of more lives and yes, it was lives on our side. It is our side that we are primarily concerned with, their side's lives are secondary considerations to victory. Don't like it, sorry, but that is just the way war works. Find a way to stop others from starting wars and we won't have a need to do it ourselves, until then, better to be the best and kicking ass than to be a wanna be.
 
I can't believe people would defend a country who tortures and murders their own citizens, and a country where there is actual footage of their "police" intentionally opening fire on unarmed protesters, and not to mention all of those people who "disappeared" later. Are you guys sure this the country you want to have nuclear weapons? Now, THAT'S insane and really shady IMO.
 
Obviously some people don't understand how our government works.

I suspect that there are alot of people who don't understand what an actual theocracy is, and they believe that if you have a Christian leader, or Christian population that it is a Christian theocracy. Unfortunately, this also means that they don't understand that in countries where Sharia law is instituted in both criminal and civil matters, that there is no government besides the religion itself.
 
And so could many of the heavily Christian politicians. What's your point?

This is so irrelevant. You cannot compare our form of government with the government that exists in Iran, even if our politicians were Christian, Muslim, Buddhists, Jewish, or whatever.
 
Obviously, someone doesn't know jack **** about Iran or the arab middle eastern countries. Quit trying to give them motivations and ways of thinking that they don't have.

These liberals think it's fine and dandy if we support brutal dictatorships in the middle east.
 
And so could many of the heavily Christian politicians. What's your point?

We have a legal system which is separate from religion, which serves to insure that any politician, no matter his level of sanity, is limited as to what he can legally do.
 
Well, that was long before I was born. Our leadership is not an insane theocracy.

Well since you have been born the US has been responsible for more innocent deaths in the middle east than has Iran. I guess crazy is in the eye of the beholder.
 
Unfortunately, either no one should have nukes or everyone should have them.

Does any member, ANYONE, find this even remotely reasonable? How can one argue against that position? It is hedged in more ignorance than I can imagine dispelling.


Seriously. Everyone should have them? That's your argument supporting the Iranian nuclear weapon program?!
 
Like nK and Pakistan. Great. That's really what we want?

When you have nukes NOBODY attacks you.. That's the message.. and its not wasted on the Iranians.
 
We have a legal system which is separate from religion, which serves to insure that any politician, no matter his level of sanity, is limited as to what he can legally do.

This is so irrelevant. You cannot compare our form of government with the government that exists in Iran, even if our politicians were Christian, Muslim, Buddhists, Jewish, or whatever.

I never compared them. Where are you getting that from? My response was strictly to Johnny's comment that claimed we're not an insane theocracy because we're a Christian country.

Well, that was long before I was born. Our leadership is not an insane theocracy.

Of course not, we are a Christian country.
 
Well since you have been born the US has been responsible for more innocent deaths in the middle east than has Iran. I guess crazy is in the eye of the beholder.

The United States does not intentionally target innocent people. Iran tortures and kills it's own citizens and is led by a crazy theocracy, whereas the United States is not. This you cannot deny. :2razz:
 
Does any member, ANYONE, find this even remotely reasonable? How can one argue against that position? It is hedged in more ignorance than I can imagine dispelling.


Seriously. Everyone should have them? That's your argument supporting the Iranian nuclear weapon program?!

No, that's crazy talk.
 
Innocent people? Gee, we killed the enemy we had been fighting for years and brought an end to the war without costing millions of more lives and yes, it was lives on our side. It is our side that we are primarily concerned with, their side's lives are secondary considerations to victory. Don't like it, sorry, but that is just the way war works. Find a way to stop others from starting wars and we won't have a need to do it ourselves, until then, better to be the best and kicking ass than to be a wanna be.

And we justify the killing of innocent people to attain a greater good. Gee, I wonder who else does that?
 
No, that's crazy talk.

It seems some people have 3 arguments:

1. The US nukes civilians, so what are we worried about?
2. Fk Israel (my favorite defense of Iran, haha).
3. Iran getting nukes is fair.

It's hard to believe, but I seen it.
 
Oh good lord! Is this the part where we review the US expansion west, the a-bombs, Dresden and Union Carbide?
 
When you have nukes NOBODY attacks you.. That's the message.. and its not wasted on the Iranians.

Man, is this a political debate tonight or a comedy show. Are you really so clueless that you think the MAD principle will work with muslim extremist? The best we can hope for from Iran with nukes is that they continue wanting to kill Sunni Muslims more than they want to kill us or Israel. Entirely possible since they do spend a lot more time and resources killing Sunni's than anyone else.
 
The United States does not intentionally target innocent people. Iran tortures and kills it's own citizens and is led by a crazy theocracy, whereas the United States is not. This you cannot deny. :2razz:

I go by deeds, not words.. The fact is the US is responsible for far more deaths of innocent people in the Middle East than is Iran during your lifetime.
 
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