What if they nuke Iran?

[LuckyTheDog]

If they nuke Iran, the U.S. will never again be the same. We'll have crossed over into the role of rogue state. Our only hope would be a complete change of the system on the order of what what seen in Russia and Eastern Europe. Sane, moral people would no longer be able to tolerate politics as usual or the big money that corrupts it.

After such a thing, we'd have to rise up and organize a revolution in government like the country has never seen. Our goals would have to be radical: The GOP would have to go and the corporation-based economy would need to be completely re-thought and reformed. The Pentagon would have to be dismantled and replaced with something else. And we'd need a massive truth commission to tell us how we got to the point of doing something so awful.

Of course, there is a chance that none of that could be accomplished because of what the leadership would do to maintain "order" afterward. And in that case, many of us would have to leave the country and work abroad to organize international pressure and organize things that could not be done at home. I am not talking about violence. The world has enough terrorists. But I think we'd be put into a position of becoming dissidents, rather than participants in the political process.

Your thoughts, please...

[onecent]

1. world war III...what was it Einstein said...

not exact quote......

Don't know what weapons will be used for WWIII but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones.

[longship]

2. Pay attention to the spheres of influence.

Iran is in the China/Russia sphere of influence. It is inconceivable that a preemptive nuclear attack on Iran would elicit anything short of a devastating response from China/Russia. I'm not saying it would be nuclear, but it would certainly not be friendly. Only a madman would contemplate such a thing. Only the maddest of madmen would do it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Ayuh and look who is at the helm of U.S.S. America

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[nadinbrzezinski]

5. truly waht nightmares are made from

our current so called leadership

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Hence the call to get rid of them. Yesterday. I just sent out

several copies of a letter to my local papers and my congress critters. Tomorrow I will be calling them. Esp Collins. She is touting the idea of a bipartisan committee of investigation.. but hey, she was on a bipartisan committee of oversight... and boy, did they overlook an awful lot in disaster management planning. :mad:

[daninthemoon]

3. The chimp probably plays with "the button" before he goes to

sleep at night. HAs it tucked right under his pillow.

[LuckyTheDog]

7. One gets that impression

This administration seems to be LOOKING for a reason to use a nuclear weapon.

[Deja Q]

8. It's the end. NO country would tolerate nukes and respond in kind.

So duck under the desk and hold your nose.

Also whip out the eggs, you can make an omelet on the floor while you wait to fry or die of radiation poisoning.

Cool.

Still, compared to exterminating the lower and middle classes so the selfish upper class inhuman, greedy, unchristian pigs can survive, thermonuke armageddon seems a blessing by comparison. We all get the same fate. Seems fair.

[LuckyTheDog]

9. Well... that is, if Russia or China jumps in, right?

I think the believe the "beauty" of nuking Iran is that they would have no way to retaliate in kind. They have no nukes as of now and no intercontinental missiles.

[Freedomfried]

10. I believe the Russians have suitcase nukes in rented safehouses in DC

hooked up to telephone lines, awaiting the coded call that would arm them.