Israeli minister alternatives to attack on Iran running out

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It's an understandable position.  Top Iranian officials have repeatedly threatened the Israelis with death and destruction for decades, and now they are getting close to nukes.  If these facts are true, then yes, they have a right to defend themselves from that threat.  (and then face the international reaction to it)

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They've had them for awhile now and haven't used them, what (other than a deep seated bias) makes you think that will change soon?

[dead0man]

It's an understandable position.  Top Iranian officials have repeatedly threatened the Israelis with death and destruction for decades, and now they are getting close to nukes.  If these facts are true, then yes, they have a right to defend themselves from that threat.  (and then face the international reaction to it)

Interesting, coming from you, if you dont mind me saying.

Don't mind at all

Nations have a right to defend themselves, why wouldn't I believe in that?

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I am glad you support a pullout from Iraq but the truth is that we cannot even pull out of there in a hurry. We went in without thinking and now we cannot pull out doing the same. So we really will not be prepared for a war with Iran for another 3 or 4 years.

I'm pretty sure we've done this before.  We don't need to pull out of anywhere to send Iran back to the stone age.  Our B2's and B52's are not tied down Iraq.  We couldn't occupy Iran next week, but we could (and would if we needed to) totally destroy their military.

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But we've (well, they've) dealt with Hezbollah sending rockets into Israel (do they ever stop?).  We've dealt with the nutcases funded by Iran in Iraq.  Plus, both of those things wouldn't continue indefinitely if we killed Iran's military might.  The only thing you mention that they could do would be to fark up oil transportation leaving the region, but they could only do that if they started it.  They couldn't defeat Iraq 20 years ago whereas we made them look foolish, twice.  And it took days.  Why do you think Iran's military (remember, we're not occupying anything here.  We're just defeating their military.) would fare any better than Iraq did against us?

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Nah, you can do most of them by holding down the Atl key and pressing in a 4 digit combo on the numberpad or if you use funky keys all the time you can remap your keyboard.  It's still a bit cumbersome, but you can only squeeze so many keys onto a keyboard.