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No country spreads hate more consistently than Iran.
Perhaps.... But, not one country has spreads WAR as much as good ol USA huh? 1947-49 - U.S. helps command extreme-right Greece party in Civil War. Death toll: about 70,000 contributed by US-backed forces 1948-54 - CIA directs war against Huk Rebellion in Philippines. Death toll: about 11,000 1950 - Independence movement crushed in Ponce, Puerto Rico Death toll: conservative historians estimated about 8,000 peasants 1950-53 - Korean War Death toll: about 1,776,000 1952 - CIA overthrows Democracy in Iran, installs Shah Death toll: about 20,000 1954 - CIA directs invasion of Guatemala after new Democracy there nationalized U.S.-occupied lands Death toll: about 140,000 missing and dead 1958 - In Lebanon, marine occupation against rebels Death toll: about 2,000 1960-75+ - Vietnam War including Cambodia and Laos Death toll: about 4,502,000 including civilians and resulting famines (conservative estimates) 1961 - Cuba's Bay of Pigs Invasion fails Death toll: about 4,000 1963 - In Iraq, CIA organizes coup against President and agrees to back formerly exiled Saddam Death toll: about 7,000 including civilians 1964 - In Panama, troops kill protesters against US-owned canal Death toll: about 1,000 1965 - CIA assists Indonesian coup Death toll: about 900,000 1966 - Troops and bombers threaten pro-communist parties in Dominican Republic Death toll: about 3,000 1966-96 - Green berets in Guatemala against rebels, US backs pro-American forces in country until 1996 Death toll: about 200,000 1970 - Directs marine invasion of Oman Death toll: about 2,000 1973 - CIA directs coup to oust elected Marxist president in Chile Death toll: 30,000... 3,000 later disappeared under US-installed dictator 1976-92 - CIA assists South-African rebels in Angola Death toll: median estimate at 550,000 1981-90 - CIA directs Contra invasions in Nicaragua Death toll: median estimate at 30,000 1982-84 - Marines expel Lebanese rebels, aided by Israel Death toll: 40,000 1987-88 - US intervenes for Iraq against Iran Death toll: about 150,000 during time-frame, 100,000 during Desert Storm, 350,000 from resulting famine 1989 - US invades to oust CIA-installed Panamanian government gone rouge Death toll: 2,000 1992-94 - US-led occupation of Somalia during civil war Death toll: 50,000 in combat, 300,000 by starvation 2001+ - US Occupies Afghanistan Death toll: 120,000 including civilians and combatants and resulting Opium Wars 2003+ - Iraqi War Death toll: 665,000 also by starvation, displacement TOTAL: 10,431,000 ![]() You left out that little part between 1941 and 1945. |
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I disagree with most of what you believe to be "legal"
That being said, Lets debate what happens if Iran does nuclearize.... Let's say they build the bomb. Do they launch knowing that a single warhead launch means the total annihation of Iran? Do they use it as levage? WTF do you do with a nuclear warhead? You become like North Korea thats what... Isolated, destitute and powerless. Remember Libya had a clandestine nuke program that was handed over voluntarily... |
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You left out that little part between 1941 and 1945. I did! and forgot to deduct the 500K deaths Let's round it off at 9 mil since Nagasaki? |
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Edited by
s1owhand
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Sat 08/25/12 02:17 AM
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I heard part of a radio discussion about Israel attacking Iran today. The rumor was that Israel was going to attack before the US election (which was supposed to have some benefit that I didn't catch). The host didn't seem to think Israel was very happy with Obama so maybe it was to hurt his re-election chances ... but war usually helps a sitting president so I am not too sure of the commentator's angle. I commented upon such reports in another recent thread. The reality of the situation is that each day that Iran stonewalls the rest of the civilized world and continues spinning the centrifuges and working towards a nuclear weapons capability brings them one step closer to armed intervention. It is completely within Iran's control to stop it an any time so Iran is playing a game of high-stakes brinksmanship with nuclear materials. It's crazy of course. But Iran is a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy which is headed by an Imam and whose decisions are not based on rationality but on ancient outdated concepts of Sharia law and the divinity of converting the rest of the world to radical fundamentalist Islam theology, killing those who would insist on modernization, religious freedom and those who would oppose them such as modern tolerant Western societies, Europe, Japan, China, India, Australia, and especially Christians, Jews, the US and Israel. This is not sophistry and child's play. This is not the US and Israel beating the war drum. The war has been on for some years now and those who truly love tolerance, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, open modern society and all the advantages of modern education and liberal thought are in this conflict whether we like it or not. This is discussed in detail in the documentaries: Obsession: Radical Islam's War against the West http://youtu.be/gMLJJEDDDGc The Third Jihad: Radical Islam's vision for America http://youtu.be/j3BGwQr8xg4 and with regard to Iran's specific nuclear buildup in Iranium http://youtu.be/t4IDy-0CJbE "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil..." ...is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke I have nothing at all against Islam as a religion and I understand that the radical Islamists who are at war with the West represent only a tiny fraction of the Muslim world. Radical Islamists though are modern crusaders and even as a tiny minority they are millions of people armed to the teeth and willing to die to force their brand of virulent and violent Islam - Taliban style - to the rest of the world. I do not wish for war with Iran. Israel does not wish for war with Iran. The United States does not wish for war with Iran, Europed does not desire war with Iran. We all want peace. We all want religious freedom and freedom from terrorist attacks. We all want Iran to dismantle their illegal and bunker fortified nuclear enrichment apparatus and demonstrate that they are true to their many statement really NOT looking to head towards nuclear arms. But Iran will not demonstrate their peaceful intentions. Why is that? All they have to do to lift serious sanctions and satisfy the UN and the NPT obligations and all those who rightfully are extremely concerned about their nuclear buildup, fortifications, lying and calling for genocide...is to disarm nukes. Iran refuses. They WANT conflict. Their Imam considers Iran already at war. A war to the death between the radical Islamification of the rest of the world and Iran and her radical Islamic allies much to the discomfort and against the best interests of everyone else. There are many valid reasons not to go to war with Iran. War is never desirable. But if you are being bullied by someone who wishes to impose their hatred and religiously feverish intolerance and ignorance upon you by force if necessary....And this bully Iran has demonstrated in numerous acts supporting the worst kinds of war crimes - terrorism that they have no problem forcing their rape upon innocent peoples with violence.... No civilized persons can ever tolerate nuclear weapons programs among such a regime inviting nuclear catastrophe. This is why nuclear developments and NPT violations are at the top of the agenda at the UN Security Council now with respect to Iran. This is why the international community is continuously asking Iran to stand down and disarm. This is why Israel whose destruction is irrationally and antisemitically called for daily in Iran is extremely concerned. This is why the US whose destruction is also called for daily by Iran is concerned. Everyone has very good reason to be concerned. And Iran could end it all tomorrow, comply with the UN, answer the calls of the international community to stop this madness and stop enriching nuclear materials and stop working towards religious nuclear warfare. Then there would be no need for war. Otherwise.....they will have brought it upon themselves. The world community will not stand for the threats of religious nuclear genocide and they will be disarmed by force on a time table no one really knows. It has been going on for years and one or more of the countries or cultures threatened could decide they must take action any day. EVERYONE will be extremely grateful when Iranian nuclear capability has been eliminated and for good reason. Hopefully the Iranians will take care of it themselves as requested by the rest of the world and according to their sworn agreements. But if they don't take care of it soon then it will be no surprise that the rest of the world will do it for them and relieve us all of this real and immediate threat of religious nuclear weapons. |
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Edited by
Conrad_73
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Sat 08/25/12 02:27 AM
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whats there to discuss? the anti-israel brigade will come in and start the Israel bashing and saying good and nice Iran is... ![]() ![]() ![]() Iran has just stonewalled the International Atomic Energy Commission again! |
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I suppose one of the top five reasons not to attack Iran are economic.
If Israel attacks them expect gas prices to go sky high and kill what is left of the world economy. If our government really had our best interests at heart they would tell Israel flat out "If you attack Iran your on your own no aid at all" The economic stakes are so high I would rather see this country support Iran in any such attack. What does Israel contribute to Americas well being? Nothing at all is the answer. |
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Lets debate what happens if Iran does nuclearize.... Let's say they build the bomb. Do they launch knowing that a single warhead launch means the total annihation of Iran? Do they use it as levage? WTF do you do with a nuclear warhead? You become like North Korea thats what... Isolated, destitute and powerless.
There is no benefit in attacking a country like Iran, if they weren't on a path towards nuclear armament, they sure will be after an attack of such a large scale. Israel and the US will never recover from this. Metal is pretty good with science so my question is How many "dirty bombs" can you produce with let's say Ummmm 40Kg of 20% enriched Uranium? I'm asking because I have no clue if it even needs to be enriched to be deadly. And I'll repeat the quote above. What does Iran do with 1 single Nuclear Warhead or 100? |
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Lets debate what happens if Iran does nuclearize.... Let's say they build the bomb. Do they launch knowing that a single warhead launch means the total annihation of Iran? Do they use it as levage? WTF do you do with a nuclear warhead? You become like North Korea thats what... Isolated, destitute and powerless.
There is no benefit in attacking a country like Iran, if they weren't on a path towards nuclear armament, they sure will be after an attack of such a large scale. Israel and the US will never recover from this. Metal is pretty good with science so my question is How many "dirty bombs" can you produce with let's say Ummmm 40Kg of 20% enriched Uranium? I'm asking because I have no clue if it even needs to be enriched to be deadly. And I'll repeat the quote above. What does Iran do with 1 single Nuclear Warhead or 100? Same thing that al-Qaeda did with 4 planes except nuclear. |
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Phleaaaase Iran is NOT al-Qaeda
![]() if Israel ever ventures into a military strike against Iran, it must ask itself this question first: how many Iranian missiles can the Zionist entity take 10,000? 20,000? 50,000? 100,000? 150,000 or more?” |
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Phleaaaase Iran is NOT al-Qaeda ![]() if Israel ever ventures into a military strike against Iran, it must ask itself this question first: how many Iranian missiles can the Zionist entity take 10,000? 20,000? 50,000? 100,000? 150,000 or more?” No one said Iran was al-Qaeda but Iran is widely considered to be the worst state sponsor of terrorism at this time so it can be expected that they will continue to sponsor terrorism and no one wants that with dirty bombs or god forbid atomic or thermonuclear weapons on missiles. No one can accept even one nuclear Iranian missile! ![]() That is kind of the point of the UN Security Council sanctions and international condemnation. In many ways Iran is much much worse than al-Qaeda since they have an entire country rich with oil money with which to fund their disgusting terrorist attacks on innocent people. It is reprehensible that anyone would support such a regime calling for annihilation of the US and Israel and holy war against all infidels (by which they mean all religiously tolerant liberal societies). Good Grief! ![]() |
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I would prefer a nuclear armed Iran over ten dollar a gallon gas any day.
However as our own government has said Iran poses no nuclear threat and are not working on a bomb. SO why all the fuss? The real Issue is why do we support Israel when we cant even afford to take care of our own. |
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In my mind ISRAEL is the country seeking a war and trying to drag the US into it. Cut off all military aid to Israel before they start world war 3 ![]() |
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I would prefer a nuclear armed Iran over ten dollar a gallon gas any day. However as our own government has said Iran poses no nuclear threat and are not working on a bomb. SO why all the fuss? The real Issue is why do we support Israel when we cant even afford to take care of our own. ![]() Yes ARM the radical Islamic terrorists with nuclear weapons. What could it hurt? ![]() ![]() ![]() http://youtu.be/FckLO8HcNyo |
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Phleaaaase Iran is NOT al-Qaeda ![]() if Israel ever ventures into a military strike against Iran, it must ask itself this question first: how many Iranian missiles can the Zionist entity take 10,000? 20,000? 50,000? 100,000? 150,000 or more?” No one said Iran was al-Qaeda but Iran is widely considered to be the worst state sponsor of terrorism at this time so it can be expected that they will continue to sponsor terrorism and no one wants that with dirty bombs or god forbid atomic or thermonuclear weapons on missiles. No one can accept even one nuclear Iranian missile! ![]() That is kind of the point of the UN Security Council sanctions and international condemnation. In many ways Iran is much much worse than al-Qaeda since they have an entire country rich with oil money with which to fund their disgusting terrorist attacks on innocent people. It is reprehensible that anyone would support such a regime calling for annihilation of the US and Israel and holy war against all infidels (by which they mean all religiously tolerant liberal societies). Good Grief! ![]() Wait a minute... In other threads, you claimed the UN a corrupt entity seeking to demonize Israel through resolutions and Russia was spearheading this effort since the sixties? ![]() Pretty crazy, emotional and irrational stuff here slowhand... So... we're beyond the dirty bomb stage... if that was gonna happen it would have no? I'll just take North Korea as my example... They've been threatening the US for decades, developed nuclear capabilities... tested them... Test launched ICBMs... sunk SKorean war ships... launched a barrage of missiles at some island... Tries to ship weaponry to Burma... And not a single US strike? The dynamics are different I know... They don't include Israel. ![]() So... you send in the bunker blasters... Iran retaliates with 200 000 scuds Now what? I'll tell you what... Israel on the brink of annihilation launches a nuclear attack on Iran? And they'll justify the nuclear holocaust as defensive in nature? God help us all ... I hope Israel loves her children enough to stop this madness |
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Phleaaaase Iran is NOT al-Qaeda ![]() if Israel ever ventures into a military strike against Iran, it must ask itself this question first: how many Iranian missiles can the Zionist entity take 10,000? 20,000? 50,000? 100,000? 150,000 or more?” No one said Iran was al-Qaeda but Iran is widely considered to be the worst state sponsor of terrorism at this time so it can be expected that they will continue to sponsor terrorism and no one wants that with dirty bombs or god forbid atomic or thermonuclear weapons on missiles. No one can accept even one nuclear Iranian missile! ![]() That is kind of the point of the UN Security Council sanctions and international condemnation. In many ways Iran is much much worse than al-Qaeda since they have an entire country rich with oil money with which to fund their disgusting terrorist attacks on innocent people. It is reprehensible that anyone would support such a regime calling for annihilation of the US and Israel and holy war against all infidels (by which they mean all religiously tolerant liberal societies). Good Grief! ![]() Wait a minute... In other threads, you claimed the UN a corrupt entity seeking to demonize Israel through resolutions and Russia was spearheading this effort since the sixties? ![]() Pretty crazy, emotional and irrational stuff here slowhand... So... we're beyond the dirty bomb stage... if that was gonna happen it would have no? I'll just take North Korea as my example... They've been threatening the US for decades, developed nuclear capabilities... tested them... Test launched ICBMs... sunk SKorean war ships... launched a barrage of missiles at some island... Tries to ship weaponry to Burma... And not a single US strike? The dynamics are different I know... They don't include Israel. ![]() So... you send in the bunker blasters... Iran retaliates with 200 000 scuds Now what? I'll tell you what... Israel on the brink of annihilation launches a nuclear attack on Iran? And they'll justify the nuclear holocaust as defensive in nature? God help us all ... I hope Israel loves her children enough to stop this madness ![]() The UN is completely discredited by the efforts of the block of Islamic nations to repeatedly and unjustly single out Israel for condemnation. That has nothing to do with Everybody wanting to keep the religious nuts running Iran from getting nuclear weapons. S Korea is also not a religious fanatic state which has threatened and carried out numerous terrorist attacks against other countries (although Everybody has also been working hard to disarm N Korea also). Bottom line is there are thousands and thousands of reasons why Iran should never be allowed nuclear weapons and these are the existing and future terror victims and their families. And the whole world knows it. ![]() |
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And Pallywood rolls out the spin!! Give em a lil rope eh HRD? I'm sorry, you haven't added anything substantial to this thread to comment or for me to comment on... take care! I'm being threatened by someone on the internet. ![]() So, you're unfamiliar with Pallywood and the propaganda machine then? |
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Bottom line is there are thousands and thousands of reasons why Iran should never be allowed nuclear weapons and these are the existing and future terror victims and their families. And the whole world knows it. Except the anti-semites it would seem. |
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I heard part of a radio discussion about Israel attacking Iran today. The rumor was that Israel was going to attack before the US election (which was supposed to have some benefit that I didn't catch). The host didn't seem to think Israel was very happy with Obama so maybe it was to hurt his re-election chances ... but war usually helps a sitting president so I am not too sure of the commentator's angle. I commented upon such reports in another recent thread. The reality of the situation is that each day that Iran stonewalls the rest of the civilized world and continues spinning the centrifuges and working towards a nuclear weapons capability brings them one step closer to armed intervention. It is completely within Iran's control to stop it an any time so Iran is playing a game of high-stakes brinksmanship with nuclear materials. It's crazy of course. But Iran is a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy which is headed by an Imam and whose decisions are not based on rationality but on ancient outdated concepts of Sharia law and the divinity of converting the rest of the world to radical fundamentalist Islam theology, killing those who would insist on modernization, religious freedom and those who would oppose them such as modern tolerant Western societies, Europe, Japan, China, India, Australia, and especially Christians, Jews, the US and Israel. This is not sophistry and child's play. This is not the US and Israel beating the war drum. The war has been on for some years now and those who truly love tolerance, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, open modern society and all the advantages of modern education and liberal thought are in this conflict whether we like it or not. This is discussed in detail in the documentaries: Obsession: Radical Islam's War against the West http://youtu.be/gMLJJEDDDGc The Third Jihad: Radical Islam's vision for America http://youtu.be/j3BGwQr8xg4 and with regard to Iran's specific nuclear buildup in Iranium http://youtu.be/t4IDy-0CJbE "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil..." ...is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke I have nothing at all against Islam as a religion and I understand that the radical Islamists who are at war with the West represent only a tiny fraction of the Muslim world. Radical Islamists though are modern crusaders and even as a tiny minority they are millions of people armed to the teeth and willing to die to force their brand of virulent and violent Islam - Taliban style - to the rest of the world. I do not wish for war with Iran. Israel does not wish for war with Iran. The United States does not wish for war with Iran, Europed does not desire war with Iran. We all want peace. We all want religious freedom and freedom from terrorist attacks. We all want Iran to dismantle their illegal and bunker fortified nuclear enrichment apparatus and demonstrate that they are true to their many statement really NOT looking to head towards nuclear arms. But Iran will not demonstrate their peaceful intentions. Why is that? All they have to do to lift serious sanctions and satisfy the UN and the NPT obligations and all those who rightfully are extremely concerned about their nuclear buildup, fortifications, lying and calling for genocide...is to disarm nukes. Iran refuses. They WANT conflict. Their Imam considers Iran already at war. A war to the death between the radical Islamification of the rest of the world and Iran and her radical Islamic allies much to the discomfort and against the best interests of everyone else. There are many valid reasons not to go to war with Iran. War is never desirable. But if you are being bullied by someone who wishes to impose their hatred and religiously feverish intolerance and ignorance upon you by force if necessary....And this bully Iran has demonstrated in numerous acts supporting the worst kinds of war crimes - terrorism that they have no problem forcing their rape upon innocent peoples with violence.... No civilized persons can ever tolerate nuclear weapons programs among such a regime inviting nuclear catastrophe. This is why nuclear developments and NPT violations are at the top of the agenda at the UN Security Council now with respect to Iran. This is why the international community is continuously asking Iran to stand down and disarm. This is why Israel whose destruction is irrationally and antisemitically called for daily in Iran is extremely concerned. This is why the US whose destruction is also called for daily by Iran is concerned. Everyone has very good reason to be concerned. And Iran could end it all tomorrow, comply with the UN, answer the calls of the international community to stop this madness and stop enriching nuclear materials and stop working towards religious nuclear warfare. Then there would be no need for war. Otherwise.....they will have brought it upon themselves. The world community will not stand for the threats of religious nuclear genocide and they will be disarmed by force on a time table no one really knows. It has been going on for years and one or more of the countries or cultures threatened could decide they must take action any day. EVERYONE will be extremely grateful when Iranian nuclear capability has been eliminated and for good reason. Hopefully the Iranians will take care of it themselves as requested by the rest of the world and according to their sworn agreements. But if they don't take care of it soon then it will be no surprise that the rest of the world will do it for them and relieve us all of this real and immediate threat of religious nuclear weapons. Bottom line is there are thousands and thousands of reasons why Iran should never be allowed nuclear weapons and these are the existing and future terror victims and their families. And the whole world knows it. Except the anti-semites it would seem. That is certainly one reason why people would defend Iran's lust for nuclear weapons technology and the bomb. |
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Recent assessments by American spy agencies are broadly consistent with a 2007 intelligence finding that concluded that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program years earlier, according to current and former American officials. The officials said that assessment was largely reaffirmed in a 2010 National Intelligence Estimate, and that it remains the consensus view of America’s 16 intelligence agencies. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/world/middleeast/us-agencies-see-no-move-by-iran-to-build-a-bomb.html
SO who wants Iraq times 4 over nothing? Only the deluded war warmongers and the Israeli government. |
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Lets debate what happens if Iran does nuclearize.... Let's say they build the bomb. Do they launch knowing that a single warhead launch means the total annihation of Iran? Do they use it as levage? WTF do you do with a nuclear warhead? You become like North Korea thats what... Isolated, destitute and powerless.
There is no benefit in attacking a country like Iran, if they weren't on a path towards nuclear armament, they sure will be after an attack of such a large scale. Israel and the US will never recover from this. Metal is pretty good with science so my question is How many "dirty bombs" can you produce with let's say Ummmm 40Kg of 20% enriched Uranium? I'm asking because I have no clue if it even needs to be enriched to be deadly. And I'll repeat the quote above. What does Iran do with 1 single Nuclear Warhead or 100? I won't go into an extended diatribe here on weapons design (but I could) but I will address the "dirty bomb" comment. A dirty bomb is no different than any other bomb, i.e., the bigger the bomb, the more damage it will do. The purpose of an explosive is to kill and destroy people and property. Atomic bombs are very effective in this way. Neutron bombs or "enhanced radiation" bombs are designed to kill humans with neutron radiation while leaving buildings and materials largely unharmed. They have largely been abandoned since original development for moral reasons and the fact that they allow the enemy to just repopulate and take over control of the unharmed weapons laying around. Dirty bombs are economic and terror weapons. Forty pounds of enriched uranium, ground into a very fine powder and dispersed across strategic parts of New York City, would probably cause the entire city to be abandoned. As was seen on 9/11, a large scale terror attack can cause economic impact way out of proportion to the cost of the attack or area affected. The use of plutonium (made in the nuclear power process as well as weapons development) would be even worse than uranium. Plutonium and uranium are poisonous beyond imagination. The dust contaminates an area to the degree that it simply cannot be cleaned completely. In a third world country an increased risk of cancer of ten percent may not even be considered a big risk but in the US, it would be cause for evacuation by the government. The risk of dirty bomb technology from Iran is not that of an Iranian ship flying an Iranian flag sailing into New York harbor shooting canisters of uranium as far as they could. That isn't the way they have spread their land mines across Afghanistan. The risk is more to supply terror groups with the weapons who then, in a coordinated attack, like 9/11, release many small canisters scattered across the city over a short amount of time. This method would be far more effective than a single bomb. As for having an atomic bomb, the second a country gets one, they are treated differently by other nations and allowed craziness not allowed by non-nuclear nations (refer North Korea). |
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