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Originally Posted by Manx
I find it hard to swallow the line that Iran is the grave threat that is claimed
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Originally Posted by alansmithee
It an abstract way, i think it's bad if Iran gets nukes. But I don't see us being at risk for a long while.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
iran is not a threat to the us in any coherent sense.
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Originally Posted by Lebell
I don't think that Iran would attack first as a country, as they know what the consequences would be and I dont think they are suicidal.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,129390,00.html
In an interview with pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera, [Iranian Defense Minister] Ali Shamkhani was asked how Iran would respond if America were to attack its nuclear facilities.
"We will not sit to wait for what others will do to us," he said. "There are differences of opinion among military commanders (in Iran). Some commanders believe preventive operations is not a model created by Americans ... or is not limited to Americans. Any nation, if it feels threatened, can resort to that."
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Now everyone can act shocked that one of the board's liberals quoted Fox News (which, by the way, I am not fond of, but it's an AP Story so it doesn't really matter which site I got it from.)
Anyway, I don't think that they would hesitate to use a nuke against our troops in the Persian Gulf if they thought they were about to be invaded.