Top U.S. officer says would prefer (??) no war on Iran

Top U.S. officer says would prefer no war on Iran
Mon May 5, 2008 3:10am EDT


JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq would make it difficult to mount any attack on Iran, the Pentagon's top officer said in remarks broadcast on Monday, adding that he would prefer to avoid a new regional war.

"I actually am very hopeful that we don't get into a position where we have to get into a conflict," Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Israel's Channel Ten television when asked if he might recommend that U.S. forces strike Iranian nuclear facilities preemptively.

"It would be a very significant challenge for the United States right now to get into a third conflict in that part of the world," Mullen added, referring to the Bush administration's long-running military commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Washington is leading efforts to curb Iran's nuclear plans through U.N. Security Council sanctions, but has also hinted that war could be a last resort for denying Tehran -- which insists it seeks atomic energy only -- the means to make a bomb.

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:shrug:

:scared:

.. knows the obvious.

Reeps do not want a draft, nor do they
really want to actually pay for anything..
hence our collapsing debt economy.

If madmen like Cheney finally get their
way and manage to attack Iran, America is
done for.

I just can't see it happening.. but then,
so much utter craziness has happened in the
last few years, I hate to just say it won't
happen.

:scared: