War between Iran and Israel

[dead0man]

Wow.  The ignorance here amazes me sometimes.

Iran will not start the war, Israel will, if it comes to it. (under the pretext that Iran is close to having the ability to deliver nukes to Tel Aviv.  The facts of that will be no doubt be the crux of the discussion here in the West.)

Actually, there won't be a war, at least not in the traditional sense.  The countries are way to far away and neither have the ability to put large amounts of boots on the ground in the other country.  Iran's only chance at harming Israel is via rockets, which will most likely be shot down before they get to the targets and more terrorism.  Israel has several more ways to harm Iran, but they all involve a lot of assistance from the US (except possibly for small special ops insertions, but even then, they couldn't pull it off without the US/NATO knowing about it/approving the action.).  They can fly to Iran and back with US assistance and arm bending of the govts in Amman and Baghdad (or trickery).  They have subs that could get there, but again they'd need the assistance of an Arab govt, this time in Cairo for use of the Suez (or they've already got subs on the Indian Ocean side of Africa).

The most likely scenario is a precision strike by Israeli F15's, via trickery to get over Jordan and Iraq, with refueling help of the US on multiple targets in Iran.  Possibly a handful of sorties over a few days.  Iran moves troops around, un docks their Navy and bitches a lot to their neighbors, but no obvious instant retaliation.  The Atlas Forum goes ape sh**t.  Euro govts give Israel crap, threatening sanctions.  Nothing ever comes of any of it.  It all fades into memory in time.

-We won't bomb civilians on purpose, that's ridiculous.
-There won't be a HUGE Jew backlash in this country.  There will be some from the far left and far right, as there always is, but everybody loves John Stewart and well, everybody else in Hollywood.
-Iraq won't support Iran (although they probably won't support Israel either).
-Full Scale war will not come of this.  Who would fight and where?  The only possible way this takes place involves Iran attacking first, but the only "full scale war" that would take place would be the US and company kicking the Revolutionary Guard back into full scale dust.

[dead0man]

Subtle.

[dead0man]

It's not all about oil like the lefts been saying for years?

[dead0man]

I know convinced due to today's spike Israel is responsible for high gas prices, yet we keep supporting these bastards

God I hope you're not kidding.  If you're kidding it's nowhere near as funny as it is if you are serious.

[dead0man]

To kick start Armageddon?  Because the Jews told us to?  Imperialsim?  Bush has a hard on for war?  The defense industry is tricking us?

[dead0man]

To kick start Armageddon?  Because the Jews told us to?  Imperialsim?  Bush has a hard on for war?  The defense industry is tricking us?

Oil.

sbane thinks it's neo-cons/fascists, I guess you both could be right.  What's his name still thinks it's the Jews, but to be fair, he thinks that about a lot of different things.