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Is Iran and was Iraq actually a threat???
I ask this, prompted by a response I just saw posted by someone who claims to have a brother that died in Iraq. If that's the truth, God bless him. If not, then you really should be ashamed...
On to the point. Opinions is the name of the game - no facts here baby. Tell me ladies and gents, do our comrades in the middle east (most notably the former Iraq and currently Iran) pose a threat to us? Could we "squish their armies in a few hours"? That quote is from the fellow who prompted my question...
Thanks for the honest opinions, though I completely disagree with virtually all of you...
The one thing I simply cannot fathom is how exactly it is that some of you can venture that we can take or have taken any of the oil... what source are you gaining this intel from???
12 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
im half persian(iranian) and my uncle came from iran to visit me... like most countries... he hates iran even if he lives in it and he cant even leave the country...its extremely corrupted
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Iraq and Iran are no threat to the US. Any threat to us we create by being there. The only threat is to Israel, perhaps, and a lot of that is due to the fact that Israel and the US are seen as being one and the same country by most Arabs, and with hatred against the US stemming from the US presence in places like Saudi Arabia, hatred is thus transferred to Israel, sine the US and Iasrael are the same country. The hatred against Israel because of Zionist atrocites against Arabs over the past 70-80 years is a different matter entirely.
So the hatred for the US presence is transmuted into hatred against Israel and a threat against Israel, and has a root cause in the US presence in the Middle East.
There is no threat against the US directly, just hatred of US imperialism. When John McCain smirks and says, "My friends, I will never surrender in Iraq" he is setting the ground work for unending conflict in a never-ending war. He just does not get it at all, and HE is a bigger theat to us than Iran or Iraq could ever be.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
We did no longer attack Iraq in an attempt to communicate, we intervened. definite, we do understand that Saddam did have WMDs the subject became that we gave them adequate warning that we've been coming that he had time to pass them into Iran and Syria (Syria all of sudden closed that is borders and would not enable the UN or any Allied forces in to their united states of america, tells us they are hiding something. additionally the actuality that Syria became a specified Allie to Iraq will develop suspicion to why they are doing this). the only reason we are nonetheless in Iraq is to help stabilize the hot government. human beings say we'd desire to continually be in Saudi Arabia, yet Saudi has been very cooperative with the UN and with the US troops, we even have bases set up in Saudi. The Saudi government additionally shown that the 9/11 attackers weren't Saudi electorate. Afghanistan claimed resposibility for the assaults and claimed that the attackers have been their electorate. we are nonetheless in Afghanistan scuffling with.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
yes we can, except that to do that it would involve bombs, which means that their are people in iran/iraq that just live their as normal people like they come home from their jobs, take care of their family etc and they could possibly come involve in the destruction which means the usa will be a citizen killer
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- Herz Aus StahlLv 41 decade ago
If we were actually fighting a war for our survival as we did in WW2, then yes, we could be done rather quickly. However, there is much money AHEM pork to be made with the war we have now so the longer we drag this out the richer AHEM... we're doing our best!
- 1 decade ago
they weren't a threat until we went in. Iraq said they had WMDs to keep Iran out. Now that we have uncovered they don't, Iran has been staying out and waiting for us to pull out because as of now, the second we leave Iran will move in to take over Pakistan and Iraq and yes, then we will be in trouble.
- 1 decade ago
They don't pose a threat to us, it might be trouble for us to invade their country and take control but no way could they actually do any damage to us.
Also I thought your note about not adding facts was funny, very much like real politics. lol
- 1 decade ago
They dont and never did pose a threat to the US. as you see they have a hard enough time getting along amongst themselves to worry about us over here across the pond.
- ek_1_gkLv 41 decade ago
the only threat it was to Israel... take it from there ..and guess where The Shaw of Iran's family is living now ? Vermont maybe ?