Rick Santorum: Let's Bomb Iran!

[Hyena Dandy]

I'd say more than would admit it, but it was far from universal.

[Panacea]

Except the Iraqi government was total trash who liked to commit small genocides and torture it's people for shits and giggles so it's not like there was only one reason to go in there.

Let's get real. The only reason we went into Iraq was so Bush Jr could finish the war his Daddy started.

You're right, we should definitely sit back, watch it continue to happen, and pretend like someone else gives a big enough shit to do something about it.

Oh wait...

Depends on what that something is. It doesn't have to be unilateral war. When Pan Am 103 went down, and Daffy Gaddafi was making a lot of noise, Reagan responded by carpet bombing his palace. Gaddafi shut the fuck up and kept a low profile after that. Could be that a similar exercise is all we need to do in Iran.

We get sucked into conflicts, because certain people in our government think that it's in our best interest. I'm all for bringing our troops home, and not getting involved in other countries' problems. With that said, I do find it interesting that people flip their shit about our troops being in Iraq and Afghanistan...yet we've had bases in Europe since 1945, and nobody's said a thing about that

We'd won a war in Europe, a war that started because we didn't take action to prevent it following WWI. No one wanted a WWIII. Hence the bases.

Iraq and Afghanistan were never credible threats to national security. Al-Queda was, but they weren't involved with Iraq (run by Sunni's not Shiites or Wahabbis like most of the Taliban and alQueda are), and weren't the actual government of Afghanistan . . . just visitors who never seemed to leave.

I feel like so many people forget this. I'd be willing to wager that prior to that war, most people would have said they believed Iraq had WMDs.

I don't know if Iran has them yet, but they sure as hell are trying. They'd love to wipe a certain country oh non-Muslim faith off the face of the Earth. And for some reason, I'm not cool with that.

I believed Iraq had WMDs . . . and was very angry when I found out not only that they did not, but there was credible evidence that the government KNEW they did not when they invaded.

I'm sure Iran has some weaponry. I don't think they have nukes yet, but they sure are trying. Their air force is aging and can't keep up with the USAF or any modern military. They've built 3 submarines . . . which won't be nuclear, but diesel. They'd be a joke to our submarine fleet.

I'll wager Obama will keep the aircraft carrier where it is until he has subs in the Straights to sink any Iranian subs that try anything stupid when he decides to send the aircraft carrier sailing back and forth in a show of power.