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Originally posted by Angry Muslim:
There will undoubtably be civilian casualties when the Evil Imperialist Pigs are destroyed, and those are acceptable losses.
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I hate to point out the similarities.
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Originally posted by robertthebard:
The other thing is, what is the impetus behind going to war with Iran? Is it just "flexing muscle we don't have"? Whatever. You are probably correct. Iran is the real world power, and all the rest of us should just bow down and kiss Allah's Holy Pink Ass. After all, if Iran decided to, they could take over the world in 5 minutes. At least, that's the impression I'm left with, reading the dissent.
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You seem to have a fascinating obsession with misreading my posts.
I never said that we should all bow to Iran, what I'm saying is that attacking Iran is going to be a war crime, not to mention attacking them for doing something which there is no evidence of them doing. What's next? Executing accused murderers and rapists before they're proven guilty? This is exactly the same thing, except on a much larger scale.
And yes, the US does not have the muscle it believes it does. Your vaunted "carrier groups" are not invincible. Your air force cannot destroy everything, nor is it indestructible. Your ground forces are depleted, demoralized and have been beaten in almost every conflict they've been in since World War 2. Public support for the war is almost non-existent and the world despises your government and your policies.
If Iran is proven to have nuclear weapons AND proven to have intentions of passing them to terrorists or fitting them on ICBM's and using those ICBM's, action should be taken. Until then, no action should be taken, and if it is, then it should not be done with civilian casualties as "acceptable losses."
"Acceptable losses" are a big part of why you have a problem with terrorism and a major insurgency in Iraq.