Be ready to face consequences: Iran to US

you tell em Iran!

That will get em off your back /sarcasm.

Saddam complied with demands to destroy their WMDs, they allowed inspectors in, they did pretty much every thing Bush wanted, and he invaded anyway. It might be that other countries, seeing that example, figure that it's not going to do any good to disarm, Bush will invade if he wants to anyway, and Iran will be in a weaker position after getting rid of their weapons.

What incentive do they have to comply with Bush's demands? He obviously wants to invade Iran and Syria, and no matter what they do, he'll do as he pleases anyway. The idiot.

And for good reasons.

Iraq: We have no weapons of mass destruction!
US: We'll invade anyway

North Korea: We have nuclear weapons
US: Okay...Here's a peace treaty and some international aid

Can't think why anyone would want a nuclear capability given those circumstances :shrug:

lalalalalalalalala!

that's the bushco way of conducting foreign policy.
no wonder the brits are appalled with blair.

Although doing so would be a high risk strategy, and perhaps just what PNAC wants.

If they engage us in the right way at the right time, they could prevent us from withdrawing from the region according to our timetable. It's called "seizing the initiative" in military jargon. The Persians are playing their cards perfectly.

By delaying on this nuclear issue, dragging in the EU, then booting them out, then dragging them in again ... they have played for time in a way that has allowed us to overextend our forces and exhaust our financial and human resources.

Now we're sitting ducks. We can't go nuclear because we have troops all over the region. So the Persians have us right where they want us.

The American commitment to the occupation of Iraq is necessarily a finite commitment. Iraqis and Iranians will always be there. We won't because of the massive drain on resources the conflict there is taking. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that the regime in power today would not expand the conflict anyway oblivious to the dangers of an expanded regional conflict in Asia. Nor does it mean that they would abandon their tactical use of nuclear weapons policy which is going to be very appealing to them in moments of desperation sure to come as a result of any wrongheaded military moves.

In fact they are motivated by some of the same social darwinism and Malthusian concerns that motivated Hitler to consistently make the wrong choices of belligerence.

What a perfect way tho for the US to drop a nuke in the middle of Iraq. Blame Iran for the deaths of thousands of US soldiers, then invade.

And yet the moderates call us lefties nuts. Yeah.... O-K!

We bomb Iran, they get pissed off, and the war that moron* started suddenly looks a hell of a lot worse than Viet Nam.

Even in Viet Nam we had the feigned support of the South. In Iraq, we haven't anything close to that.

colossal racist failure*.