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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 .
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.

So, just to clarify things, because we might kill innocents, we should not conduct wartime operations against people trying to kill us? Uh, how exactly then are we supposed to stop them from trying to kill us?
 
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.

Yes of course it will work.. It works for India, Pakistan and North Korea...

Iran is not going to attack israel or bomb Israel.

I just know the ME pretty well... and sadly I think the opportunity for a just peace passed in 2002.
 
Maybe not anymore, but we have before.


Your link states that it was a "controversial" bombing (and during a war), not the intentional targeted murder of innocent people, like Iran does to it's OWN citizens. It sure SEEMS like you are trying to make the United States out to be crazy like the Iranian government. Why are you trying to make your country look bad?
 
Your serious? Innocent German, other than children during Hitler? Man, I have to tell you, some of the responses from people on here tonight are far more hilarious than anything that has been on TV for a longtime.

The 25,000 civilians weren't innocent? Why do you say that?
 
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.

So you think the United States leadership is as crazy as the Iranian regime?
 
Your link states that it was a "controversial" bombing (and during a war), not the intentional targeted murder of innocent people, like Iran does to it's OWN citizens. It sure SEEMS like you are trying to make the United States out to be crazy like the Iranian government. Why are you trying to make your country look bad?

I'm not trying to make my country look bad, I'm trying to refute your point. You claimed the US doesn't intentionally target civilians, yet the bombings of Dresden, as well as the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had more civilian casualties than military.
 
So, just to clarify things, because we might kill innocents, we should not conduct wartime operations against people trying to kill us? Uh, how exactly then are we supposed to stop them from trying to kill us?

Of what threat were the Iraqis to the US?
 
I'm not trying to make my country look bad, I'm trying to refute your point. You claimed the US doesn't intentionally target civilians, yet the bombings of Dresden, as well as the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had more civilian casualties than military.

NOT intentionally and during wars. There IS a difference whether you want to admit that or not.
 
The 25,000 civilians weren't innocent? Why do you say that?

How many innocents did the Nazis kill? Letting Iran have nukes is the equivalent of letting the Nazis have nukes.
 
This is what I don't get. You will rail against the slightest bit of religion in the US, but a totalitarian theocracy you have no trouble with (even them getting nukes). Where's the consistency?

Considering the U.S. spends much of it's time claiming to be God's land, I don't see us being all that much better than they are. Besides, since the U.S. is a bunch of wusses, only attacking those who can't possibly defend themselves, I figure Iran might as well have nukes, if for no other reason, than to protect themselves against us. After all, if they can actually give us a bloody nose, we'll have no stomach for war except in the extreme circumstances it ought to actually attack to invade another sovereign nation.

Because we prefer Israel does not get nuked.

Says who? I have no problem whatsoever with them getting nuked, I'd love to see Jerusalem turned into a glass desert, just to piss off three major religious groups.

No wait, not nuked, then you'll just have three giant groups of delusional idiots looking to take revenge. How about a nice big meteor coming down on the Dome of the Rock? That would be nice.

Well, nK turned into a black hole and Pakistan housed OBL.

And we refused to attack Pakistan because they had nukes. Go figure. What, trying to keep Iran a viable military target?
 
So you think the United States leadership is as crazy as the Iranian regime?

I think it has been as we have higher a higher death count of innocents to boast.
 
You still have to wonder if they have intentions against Israel though. They DO hate Israel.

For good reasons IMO.
 
How many innocents did the Nazis kill?

Why does it matter? The lesser of two evils is still evil. And no, before you jump on your keyboard, I'm not saying the United States is bad, the bombings were.

NOT intentionally and during wars. There IS a difference whether you want to admit that or not.

There isn't. We knew the cost of the bombings yet we still carried on with them.
 
Considering the U.S. spends much of it's time claiming to be God's land, I don't see us being all that much better than they are. Besides, since the U.S. is a bunch of wusses, only attacking those who can't possibly defend themselves, I figure Iran might as well have nukes, if for no other reason, than to protect themselves against us. After all, if they can actually give us a bloody nose, we'll have no stomach for war except in the extreme circumstances it ought to actually attack to invade another sovereign nation.



Says who? I have no problem whatsoever with them getting nuked, I'd love to see Jerusalem turned into a glass desert, just to piss off three major religious groups.

No wait, not nuked, then you'll just have three giant groups of delusional idiots looking to take revenge. How about a nice big meteor coming down on the Dome of the Rock? That would be nice.



And we refused to attack Pakistan because they had nukes. Go figure. What, trying to keep Iran a viable military target?

You're rotten.
 
I think it has been as we have higher a higher death count of innocents to boast.

What the hell does that mean? It HAS been? Is it or isn't it? Is Obama insane? Is Congress insane?
 
How would we know where these facilities are?

Come on, we claimed to know exactly where Saddam's weapons of mass destruction were too! We know everything!

Even if it isn't real.
 
Neither Iraq nor Iran are a threat to the US.

Everyone has a right to be free and they have the resources to nation build like an Asian Tiger. All tyranny is a threat to US interests.
 
Why does it matter? The lesser of two evils is still evil. And no, before you jump on your keyboard, I'm not saying the United States is bad, the bombings were.



There isn't. We knew the cost of the bombings yet we still carried on with them.

There is a difference between an insane regime that tortures and kills it's own citizens indiscriminately and a country that carries out a bombing during a war! :roll: It's not working.
 
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