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Originally Posted by 37OHSSV
Perhaps one of the many haters in this thread has a feasible course of action in regard to Iran?
Note: Iran does not respond to "negotiation." They just want to kill us.
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Characterizing folks here with whom you disagree as "haters" hardly adds to the discussion.
You might want to consider the facts that:
* the Iranian people do not want to kill us; most are pro-western....until we indiscrimately start bombing their country and they, and their families, become the latest civilan casualties of US aggression as a result of their proximity to military sites.
* there have been virtually no high level direct discussions between the US and Iran in the six Bush years.
Fortunately there are some within the defense establishment who are not as belligerent as Cheney and the other neo-con chickenhawks.
Admiral Fallon, commander, US Central Command who said ealier this year:
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...Fallon, who was scheduled to become the CENTCOM chief Mar. 16, responded to the proposed plan by sending a strongly-worded message to the Defence Department in mid-February opposing any further U.S. naval buildup in the Persian Gulf as unwarranted.
"He asked why another aircraft carrier was needed in the Gulf and insisted there was no military requirement for it," says the source, who obtained the gist of Fallon's message from a Pentagon official who had read it.
Fallon's refusal to support a further naval buildup in the Gulf reflected his firm opposition to an attack on Iran and an apparent readiness to put his career on the line to prevent it. A source who met privately with Fallon around the time of his confirmation hearing and who insists on anonymity quoted Fallon as saying that an attack on Iran "will not happen on my watch".
Asked how he could be sure, the source says, Fallon replied, "You know what choices I have. I'm a professional." Fallon said that he was not alone, according to the source, adding, "There are several of us trying to put the crazies back in the box."
http://www.ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=37738
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Let us hope he succeeds in "putting the crazies back in the box"
Here is how one report from the UK describes the potential outcome of military action against Iran:
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The report warns that US or Israeli attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities could lead to civilian deaths, radioactive contamination, heightened conflict in neighbouring Iraq and Afghanistan, al-Qaeda attacks stemming from intensified anti-western feeling, higher oil prices and an acceleration of Tehran's nuclear programme.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e53ffd5c-b4b...0779e2340.html
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