Why?

Post #79,744 by Brandioch 2/5/03 10:55:41 PM Reply	Why? Why attack IRAN?!? Seriously. Why attack Iran?
Post #79,747 by boxley 2/5/03 10:58:41 PM Reply	dunno why did he attack the first time? will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #79,751 by Brandioch 2/5/03 11:06:31 PM Reply	Land, resources, the usual.
Post #79,749 by orion 2/5/03 11:01:12 PM Reply	Why not? It just seems to be close to Iraq, and Iran has not exactly been friendly to us. Rememner the Iranian Hostages in the late 1970's? I say we owe them a payback! More oil for us if we do attack them! Woot! Hey, I'm a Republican now, a Hawk instead of a Dove, I say we take over the whole ME, and sell their oil to make up for the cost of the war. Then put in puppet leaders so we can control the whole ME. Turn it into a United ME, each country is a state in the United ME. Therefore, no more wars, and conflicts, terrorism, or other junk. The world would be better off if we just cleaned house in the ME, trust me. [link\|http://pub75.ezboard.com/bantiiwethey\| New and improved, Chicken Delvits!]
Post #79,954 by JayMehaffey 2/6/03 7:58:16 PM Reply	That's easy enough They hate each other. Both sides have been funding attempts to overthrow the other for years. The Iraq/Iran war was prompted by Iran's sending of terrorists squads into Iraq to kill government officals. The whole reason the US (along with other western powers) funded Iraq then was because they wanted to stop Iran from exporting it's revolution. The first target Iran picked for exporting their revolution was Iraq, it was close, and had a significant number of Muslims that follow Iran's religous beliefs. Which brings up the oddity that by Bush's standards the Iraq/Iran war was perfectly justified, but that is a different issue. Jay
Post #80,011 by orion 2/6/03 10:50:06 PM Reply	Key word "hate" many of the ME countries hate each other, but a question for you do they hate the USA more than they hate each other? Also suicide bombings against each other, or just the USA and Israel? If the ME teams up to fight the USA and Israel, could we be doomed? Our only hope is that they do not do that, or call a Jihad or whatever, and we take them out one by one. First Iraq and then Iran, etc. [link\|http://pub75.ezboard.com/bantiiwethey\| New and improved, Chicken Delvits!]

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