Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] attacking Iran?

["Vern Green" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

The how about Obama or Hillary? Both have mentioned the need to possibly attack another country, in particular OBama mentioned Pakistan as a possible target and he has said that he would consider missle strikes on Iran

 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/printedition/chi-0409250111sep25,1,4555304.story

 

That was three years ago to be certain, but he recently made remarks about Pakistan as well.

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0132206420070801

 

That statement caused the current leader of Pakistan a few problems which prompted Hillary to basically say that a politician should not tell the American people everything they are thinking.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/07/obama.pakistan/index.html?iref=newssearch

 

Well, its late and hard to concentrate after spending two hours playing risk with my kids... I don't have the patience for that.. Anyway, I just wonder how this anti-war crowd will handle it if their candidates (Hilary or Obama) win and immediately feel the need to attack another country like Pakistan or Iran. Of course, it will all be justified in some way, I fully expect to see Mike Miller defending all military actions of Hillary and Obama if they take office.

 

 

On 9/2/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

I don't know what to believe, but here's the current #1 on Reddit:

http://politics.reddit.com/goto?id=2kxog

Of course I'm skeptical of the claims but we've been hearing for months
that something might happen.  We'll just have to wait and see.

I just want to add one interesting point.  The Muslim world consists of
Shia and Sunni.  Our President and his family are close friends of the
Saudi royal family, who are Sunni.  The President wants to spread freedom
and democracy in the Middle East, but the Saudi royals are dictators and
they do not have a democracy, yet Bush has never expressed any concerns
about that.  This map shows the distribution of Shia and Sunni:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Muslim_distribution.jpg

We have been attacking some of the countries with the largest Shia
populations:  Iraq and Afghanistan, and Iran is certainly the most Shia of
all of them.  What next?  Syria and Yemen?

I'm sure there's a strong argument for attacking Iran, but it would be
easy to make a strong argument for removing the Saudi royals and
instituting a democracy in Saudi Arabia.  Most of the 9/11 terrorists were
Saudi, for starters.  There's plenty more where that came from but we
aren't hearing about it.

Regarding any possible forthcoming attacks:  I normally withold judgment
on such matters because I can know very little of the evidence that
confronted the President, but this time it's a little different.  After
years of scheming, lying and secrecy, he won't have my support for any
unprovoked attack on another nation.

Mike

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