Will we be greeted as liberators in Iran?

[BOSSHOG]

Hopefullly some Roads Scholar from Free Republic can jump in here and answer this inquiry. And I'd like to know how "conservatives" will be supporting this latest bush adventure. With your son? Your Daughter? Your wife? Your self? Or will this just be chickenhawk squared? I look forward to a republican stepping up in the well of the Senate and saying its time to bring back the draft. Is it possible to make a "conservatives" limp dick limper?

[saigon68]

1. The Crusading liberators will be greeted with IEDs and head shots

LOL

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. My prediction is that even for Iranians who are opposed to the

Islamic government (and that includes a lot of military-age youth, who have been in the forefront of demonstrations and riots) will choose national pride over ideological preference and fight any U.S. invasion with everything they have.

Remember that STALIN was able to get the Russians to fight hard against the Nazis, after having created an atmosphere of oppression and paranoia, where a person could be denounced, imprisoned, and executed for any reason at all.

People in some of the most oppressed minority areas of the Soviet Union originally greeted the Nazis as liberators, but the Nazis were too steeped in the ideology of Slavic people being inferior, so they stupidly carried on with their usual atrocities.

The Iranian government is dictatorial, but nowhere near as much as Stalin's Soviet Union was. I predict that a U.S. invasion would be met with fierce resistance and would harm Iranian dissidents by making them look like traitors.

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. OF COURSE THEY WILL! - They're busy preparing as many bouquets as possible

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But I think these "bouquets" are known as "daisy-cutters"

The US Military just LOVES them things . . .

[acmavm]

4. I think the Iranian people have to be pretty sick and tired of us

screwing around with their governments by now. Every time we do things just get worse for them.

This time we'll just drop bombs on 'em and call it liberation ala Iraq style. I'm sure they'll just be thrilled.

[welshTerrier2]

5. probably ...

any campaign into Iran will begin with extensive bombing ... because Iranians do not celebrate the July 4th holiday as we do, they are generally not able to see exciting fireworks displays ...

and as their country's infrastructure is taken out, you know, roads, bridges, electric and water, they will be returned to a much simpler way of life that most Iranians long for ... employment will become a thing of the past as it has in Iraq ...

Iranians will have tons of free time to go down to the creek to fetch water and chat with their neighbors ... this can restore a real sense of community that's been sorely lacking ... and food will be generously handed out to all who need it by always kind and courteous American soldiers ...

and unlike those darn ungrateful Iraqis, Iranians will quickly see the benefits of having an American puppet government installed in Tehran ... after all, the Shah wasn't really all that bad, was he?

so, sure, we'll be welcomed as liberators ... who in their right mind wouldn't welcome having their government overthrown by a foreign power and occupied for about a generation or two?