Reply #8: No doubt as to Bush's intentions [View All]

He and his crew seem to be salivating for an excuse, any excuse, to start dropping bombs on Tehran. I hope that he and his crew realize (eventually) that their bombing Iran will likely not only fail to completely demolish Iran's nuclear program/resources but if they end up being proven wrong about Iran's nuclear ambitions and capabilities (and why should we have reason to believe that they won't be?) then such an act would almost certainly guarantee an acceleration of their nuclear program and/or attempts to buy nukes from other states to be used against us or Israel. Additionally, the non-nuclear retaliation unleashed by Iran in response to such an attack could end up being disastrous for our troops in Iraq and Israel. Bombing Iran without any clear provocation or REAL imminent threat seems to be such a bad idea on so many levels I can't imagine any SANE person contemplating it much less seriously considering it but truth, reality, facts, etc. that don't support their beliefs simply don't matter. Unfortunately, I fear that a lot of people both here and in the ME will pay a horrific price for their lack of vision if they go through with an attack (even a limited one). Although I don't want to see Iran gaining nuclear weapons (which they might not be quite so interested in if Bush hadn't made them a charter member of the so-called "Axis of Evil" back in 2002), there has not been any evidence presented so far that Iran is any more likely use nuclear weapons against somebody else than we are (and we HAVE used them in the past and are in the process of designing and building newer ones) and, frankly, I truly believe that if we are really serious about getting rid of nuclear weapons and ending proliferation thereof, we need to start talking about getting rid of our own stockpile of WMDs and ceasing further development of new ones (i.e. "bunker busters").