Quote Originally Posted by halo
You all realize that if we did go to war with Iran it would basically start WWIII right"?
While that is what the pacifists have said about every conflict since WWII, no, that's not exactly true. It would depend on how the war was defined. A ground war with Iran would be very difficuly and the casualties would be much greater than what we've seen since Viet Nam. However, an air war, with targeted strikes, not aimed at regime change but designed to set back (completely possible) or destroy (not likely) it's nuke programs could easily be accomplished, alone or with another coalition of the willing. That said, we're not there yet. The carrot/stick package was just delivered and they have time before there's moves towards sanctions, which will take more time, etc. Meanwhile, back at the batcave, Iraqi's are being trained and taking over more responsibilty for their own security freeing up troops for other fronts on the WOT. Terrorist cells are being taken down, worldwide. I believe America will be hit again but only because we're not perfect and they only have to have one success to negate a bunch of our successes.

The idea that we'll get into an all out groud war with Iran, in the next 55 days, based on a "staged terrorist attack," is obtuse and based on unfounded conspiracy theory. Frankly, I find 99.99% of conspiracy theory to be insultingly ignorant and completely benal.
iamapatient Reviewed by iamapatient on . Former CIA Analyst Says Iran Strike Set For June Or July Former CIA Analyst Says Iran Strike Set For June Or July McGovern: Staged terror attacks across Europe, US "probable" in order to justify invasion Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | June 1 2006 Former CIA analyst and Presidential advisor Ray McGovern, fresh from his heated public confrontation with Donald Rumsfeld, fears that staged terror attacks across Europe and the US are probable in order to justify the Bush administration's plan to launch a military strike against Iran, which he Rating: 5