jimimou wrote:bitty41 wrote:kam77 wrote:Briggs wants to shove bombs down the throats of every living and breathing man woiman and child but hey.. "Who wants war" he claims.
See Briggs thinks all Middle Eastern countries are the same Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, what's the difference he thinks they all live in caves and practices radical Islam, plotting the destruction of the Israel and the US. Anyone not living in the US, Western Europe, and Israel is backwards, uneducated, and savage. So when in that type of mind-set it's no big deal to advocate for the death and destruction of millions of people.
the interesting thing about all this is that most of the citizens in iran do not favor their current govt. yet, we should just blow everyone up regardless because they live in the same country????????
Exactly! It's like holding all Americans accountable for George Bush's action as President or saying that the US should be bombed because Obama continues to send troops to Afghanistan. Some of us live in a world where it's "do as I say and not do as I do"
i agree with you about a country's right to preserve their energy requirements, but Ahmadinejad is not doing a good job of playing nice in the sandbox with the rest of the world. he's thrreatened to blow-up israel and continues to poke jabs at the US in various regards. if he went the diplomatic route, he could have probably secured a few well needed allies to help in his energy reserve cause. plus the fact that he is authorizing killing his own citizens in the streets when they protest.
all in all, does not make for people wanting to befriend him. too bad too, because its clear his views are not the views of the majorityu populus of iran.
The President is not even the one that controls these decisions regarding the use of nuclear weapons the Supreme Leader of Iran is the one that dictates military policy in Iran. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, issued a fatwa some time ago against nuclear weapons and he said: "We fundamentally reject nuclear weapons."
The International Atomic Energy Agency which inspected Iran's facilities in 2009 and their then chief said this about Iran's capabilities: there was "no credible evidence" about an Iranian weapons attempt. He said: "I do not think based on what we see that Iran has an ongoing nuclear weapons programme."
Our media outlets have been reporting on a slant about Iran of them being the next Boogie Monster in the Middle East and I hope if nothing else we've learned from the follies in Afghanistan and Iraq that we should develop concrete credible information before taking any action and that diplomacy should always be the first option. Going to war or what Briggs foolishly proposes would lead to WW3.