Isn’t this a MAJOR consideration before we bomb Iran?

I honestly believe that Bush & Co. won’t give this any serious consideration — so we, the public, need to.

I can think of at least two likely scenarios:

One is to cripple the oil flow out of the Persian Gulf — $100 a barrel oil would be a tremendous blow to American’s economy.

This other is to collapse the government of Iraq and unleash holy hell in sectarian violence until the Americans can’t stand being there any more.

Can anyone else think of other possible counter attacks?

How is Iran going to hit us back?

Neither could I… but you know they would have to try to get that lead-balloon to float.

With this “declaration”, Chucklenuts has just declared war on Iran.
That way, he can keep troops in Iraq (as he has already “decided” to do) until the end of his term, and the yakking-heads on the “news”-services will ask NOTHING about bin-Laden.

The cost will continue to balloon (and the U.S. is getting close to bankruptcy), the death-toll, both armed forces AND civilians will continue to rise drastically (in a country that had NOTHING to do with 9/11), and the ass-hole-in-chief will claim more “victory” in taxes and the economy.

Then, before he leaves the mess to a successor, he’ll declare a war on China, so he can be the last President, as his religous beliefs require him to be (don’t have the link, didn’t save the page RSS had an article about Bush at church).

AND NOBODY WILL START ACTION FOR IMPEACHMENT AND TREASON AGAINST BUSH/CHENEY.

Hmm, so much for the ‘violence is on the decline’ line.

Pick a story, dumbass.

You didn’t get one comma right about the issue.

Really, you have no clue what your talking about.

In 2000, Saddam said he was going to sell all his oil in Euros. Three years later we invade. About 2 years ago Iran made the same statement, with the addendum that they were going to set up there own oil bourse – an oil futures market – separate from the one run by the ‘West’, and it too would conduct business entirely in Euros – not dollars. Ever since the US government has been trying to convince the rest of the world that ‘Iran must be stopped’; first b/c of the WMD non-threat, and now with the terrorism trump card.

A simple change in governments isn’t enough – new bosses can’t be counted on to stay with the dollar either (too much money to be made or lost). So the only option is to take control and/or destroy their ability to sell oil at all. Iraq was the former, Iran will be the latter.

Oh, and there was one other country that dropped the dollar as it’s exclusive oil-selling currency – Venezuela. Chavez made that announcement not too long after he got elected the first time, and not too long after he was almost overthrown by a coup engineered by his own oil industry (dominated as it was by western corporations). The CIA even had a white Lear Jet waiting to whisk him away (ala Bertrand Aristide in Haiti about a year earlier – a practice run?). However the Venezuelan military decided that, for once, they weren’t gonna knuckle under to Uncle Sugar and put Chavez back in power. Probably the only reason we didn’t invade was because they still do some oil dealings in dollars, and they’re only ranked 6th in the world for crude production anyway (Iraq & Iran are like 2-3 respectively).

This is all about keeping the value of the dollar from collapsing entirely. Which is why the establishment Dems won’t come out and say THEY won’t attack Iran either! Ever since Nixon, we’ve built this financial house of cards based on a dollar backed by oil (instead of gold), hollowing out our manufacturing base just so we can supply the world with dollars so they can buy oil with them too, and ignoring all consequences. We’re in so deep now that invasion & war actually seem like rational solutions to keep the system going.

We will wind up attacking Iran, and their ability to pump & refine oil will be targeted regardless of whether we do it to get their fictional WMDs or to get their terrorists or whatever else we can think up. Count on it.

#10 – Another nail in the coffin of the argument that the US isn’t at war with Islam…

Is there seriously some debate on that point? I couldn’t imagine trying to make it with a straight face.

I do like that old idea of keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. The alienation and threats with Iran is not working so why turn it around and be buddies? If we can be friends with the Saudis why not the Iranians? It’s not naive it makes sense.

The problem I see with threating Iran with war over the nuclear issue is that Iran is a sovereign country and has the right to have nuclear power, If they want – Russia does not seem to have a problem with this. Pakistan has ‘the bomb’ – so why didn’t the US bomb them before they did? What about Israel…they also have ‘the bomb’. They never said they did but never denied it either as I recall. China does too…

If Iran has ‘the bomb’ and used it on Israel do they think for one second that the entire world would do nothing? That would be ‘it’ for Iran – finished. So what is the benefit for Iran? All this rhetoric from Iran about Israel is just that…

That’s my take.

Cheers

and then…???

Isn’t that the consistent failure of this administration: Good at starting wars, but having no clue how to end them??

It would unite the Iranian people against us, because all internal opponents to the current regime will be told:

“Support our troops, or the Crusaders win!”

“Why do you hate Iran?”

Another nail in the coffin of the argument that the US isn’t at war with Islam…

You think Iran is providing IEDs now, wait until every Iranian considers it their patriotic duty to support the production and distribution of them.