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Anon asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 9 years ago

Do you think America will go to war with Iran before the 2012 election?

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    Iran needs to f**k off and be content oppressing their own citizens.

  • 9 years ago

    No because even our senior military officers have said that Iran could close the straights of Hormuz for a period of time. Even if they could close straights for as little as 3 days, the damage it would cause to the worlds economy which is just now starting to recover from the economic crash in 2008 would plunge the world in to the worst economic crisis since the great depression.

    Put simply if you are the President and you are up for reelection do you really want to set in motion a chain of events that causes gas to jump to over $8.00 a gallon if the American people are lucky?

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    You can count on it.

    “Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors…

    “Other countries possess weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. With Saddam, there is one big difference: He has used them. Not once, but repeatedly. Unleashing chemical weapons against Iranian troops during a decade-long war. Not only against soldiers, but against civilians, firing Scud missiles at the citizens of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Iran. And not only against a foreign enemy, but even against his own people, gassing Kurdish civilians in Northern Iraq.

    ”The international community had little doubt then, and I have no doubt today, that left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will use these terrible weapons again. "

    Speech from the Oval Office by President William Clinton, explaining his attack on Iraq

    reported by The Associated Press

    Wednesday, December 16, 1998

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/spec...

    Bill Clinton was impeached on December 19, 1998.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENAV_UoIfgc

    President Clinton orders attack on Iraq in 1998

    Democrats ALWAYS try to boost their popularity by starting a war somewhere.

  • 9 years ago

    Iran is a threat to the entire World, not just Israel or the US. The hunger for power and control, and the thirst for violence by the leaders of Iran, will not stop - they will always find another target. It is their life's mission.

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  • 9 years ago

    If we don't before the election, and Obama wins, they will be striking us shortly after the election. They have no more respect for Obama than they did for Carter.

  • Chris
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    No; I sincerely hope not. Even though they are a threat, conventional warfare is not the way to deal with them.

  • 9 years ago

    Maybe on election day.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    It may take another Republican 911 failure to keep us safe when Romney wins for Americans to back it.

  • 9 years ago

    its kinda look like both party's agree on this

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    i hope so, the news is getting boring

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