What effect will attack on Iran have on the US.?

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[ironman202]

1. $5 a gallon gas

[Maple]

4. Oh I think you can safely

count on more than that.

MUCH more

[growlypants]

12. If we, well let me say if the BUSH ADMINISTRATION attacks Iran...

they WILL USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Mark my words. THEY...WILL...USE...NUCLEAR...WEAPONS. Cheyney is just itching to nuke the Iranians and Bush is too dumb to think about the consequences of such a HORRIFIC MOVE (and he probably thinks it's all cool and cowboy). So when (and I'm gonna say 'when' not 'if' cuz they ARE gonna do it)they nuke Iran.....we're fucking DOOMED. DOOMED. The entire world will turn TOTALLY against us and Al-Qaida, as promised, will nuke us. We're doomed.

[tocqueville]

2. devastating

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Terrorism the likes of which not even shrub has dreamed of.....

[Newsjock]

6. No, I suspect ...

... he and Uncle Dick and Rummy all have wet dreams over such levels of terrorism.

[0rganism]

5. Or vice-versa?

I shudder to think of such things, but...

[Webster Green]

7. Perhaps an invasion and occupation by UN forces....

Chinese, Russian, British, French, and German forces, (under the auspices of the UN) put Cheney and his thugs behind bars, tell the chimp to sit down and shut the fuck up, and install Gore as president and Kerry as vice-president.

[shraby]

8. It'll be duck and cover for U.S. citizens.

You think China will put up with the United States invading Iran when they get a lot of their oil from Iran? Also right now China and Russia are doing or are going to do joint military exercises. If China says enough is enough to us about Iran, Russia will probably back them up.
Not to mention Syria and other middle east countries. It won't be pretty.

[despairing optimist]

9. Gas and heating oil rationing, major inflation, and of course FEAR

will ratchet up. More people will lose their jobs as fuel costs soar, the housing market bubble will burst. The stock and bond markets will crash, and the dollar will tank. I forgot to mention a higher risk of domestic terror attacks. Give my regards to Broadway--no, that's not right. I'll probably be vaporized on Broadway, so I should be giving my regards to you.

And amid all this, we'll find out how many runaway brides we have lurking in this country. Maybe they'll say they were pumping gas and making a last run to the bank.

[Gyre]

10. Think geiger counters

going off all over the US as the radioactive clouds waft over us. Good for kids, good for grownups too!

Gyre

[katsy]

11. * won't even try it.

[PatrioticLeftie]

13. MASSIVE Protests

And I mean monstrous ones, but I just don't think Iran will be attacked, not if we can show opposition.

[tomg]

14. Fascism at home, imperialism

abroad, and pretty much fuck all everywhere. Pretty much like it is now, except on a much greater scale. Jesus, I can't figure out which is worse: that we are seriously discussing this, or that the rest of the country is not.

[politicaholic]

15. The rapture...jeez, you didn't know?

Bush doesn't really care about the outcome, he'll be in heaven...

Right?

:scared:

[ironman202]

16. can't we just get him raptured early? Preraptured?

[deadparrot]

17. I hope I never have to find out...nt

[gokar]

18. My 401-k will be in the gutter if we attacjk Iran...

There goes any hopes of a moderately good retirement dreams.

[longship]

19. Welcome to DU.

Too bad about the nuclear conflagaration. Maybe we can save your retirement, though.
:sarcasm:

[gokar]

21. Thanks a bunch!

:toast:

[Hotler]

20. Martial law and gulags. eom.

[windbreeze]

22. B/C are ARROGANT...

They never admit a mistake, and feel that we are the #1 power, and we can
do as we like, the world is ours for the taking, and they are madmen to think like that...but...IF they think for one minute that China/Russia are going to sit back and let us nuke Iran...they have another thought coming...

China needs oil
Russia is helping them build nuclear reactors..in exchange for? oil?

Both countries have a vested interest in keeping Iran out of our clutches...and anyone who thinks we ARE the only military power in this world...are seriously mistaken...we just haven't been paying close attention...

We would be looking at all out nuclear war, possibly...or China would take over Taiwan, and wait for us to react...then nuke us...
Russia stays quiet, but...still waters run deep..and violent, and their new found friends are guess who? China....WW3...how would we fight the rest of the world?

And by that time we will already be under martial law, total suspension of the constitution and elections, most likely we will crash and burn...everything from food supplies, to the stock market, manufacturing, housing market, to the dollar and everything in between will come crashing down around us, and people who protest will start to disappear into concentration camps...(old military bases)...

There are many possible scenarios...and NONE of them are good..the sad thing is, do I think they care...NOPE...and I put nothing past any of them...if it's in THEIR best interests...after all they all have bunkers to go to...it's we, the people, who don't...and it's we, the people, that they could care less about...
windbreeze

[unkachuck]

23. and after the capitalist nuclear exchange....

....I would recommend to any survivors that capitalism should be declared illegal and dead for all time just like the Nazi Party in Germany....

....any economic system that can usurp this degree of raw unaccountable political/military/nuclear power, and is as belligerent as capitalism is, is detrimental to the long term survivability of mankind....

[Bravo411]

24. War with China...

They have allot invested in Iran's oil. So does Russia.
I don't think they'll sit back and let us screw up their energy suppliers. If we mess with Iran, China will F#@K us up. Either economic ly, physically, or both. Who knows what Russia might do, but I also doubt they'll take a back seat on it.

[Jamison]

25. It'll be like WW2 again...or worse.

Unfortunately, the US (and whoever supports Herr Bush ) will be the Axis powers with the Muslim world & maybe even Russia and China at war with us.