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theyoungdem said 08/05, 10:14 PM
Other than the fact that more U.S. soldiers would die, and more innocent civilians would be killed, why else should we try our best to avoid a war with Iran? There are countless reasons.

Can we really afford to garner more anti-Americans around the world just as the Iraqi war brought us? We need to change course and place ourselves back to the position where countries looked up to the U.S. People say that we did good by getting rid of Saddam. That was good, but has anyone realized, that Americans are portrayed as the villians of the war? Can we afford to get even more hated?

We are all ready strained with Iraq and Afghanistan, we must focus on problems that matter. These include problems that actually affected the U.S. such as 9/11. Which is why we must try to thwart out Osama, instead of wasting our time and money in Iraq.

Speaking of money, the war with Iraq left us in huge debt, and might exceed the cost of a trillion dollars, a war with Iran would not alleviate in anyway our debt, nor would it solve our economic crisis.

Invading Iran would be mostly based on emotion, and due to space, I cannot write more, but I have much more fire.

theyoungdem said 08/09, 09:05 AM
Are you saying that you believe we should go to war with Iran because it might give the world a better opinion of us and because of Iran's "spotty history"?

That's absurd, a war is in no way the answer to what you said. If anything needs to be solved between Iran and the U.S. then we should settle it in a diplomatic manner, and negotiate. John McCain cowardly claims this "negotiating with terrorists" and believes it should not be done. We should always cease an opportunity to negotiate instead of starting a pointless war.

Speaking of which, let me give you more even more negative impacts we would recieve from an invasion of Iraq. In America now we believe gas price to be very high, this ofcourse is relative since our price is much lower than most European countries, but it is still high compared to what we used to have. And I know many Americans are suffering from these high prices.

75% of the world's oil supply is shipped through the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, bordered and partly controlled by Iran. On CNN Ali Velshi showed how if we invade Iran, then we'd have to first block off the gulf, thus causing 16 dollars per gallon for us at the U.S.

theyoungdem said 09/02, 09:35 PM
I shall tell you how I asserted it. I looked at what Iran had done to the United States in the past and analyzed our true threats, which by the way is what we should have done for the Iraqi war. Why do you think we got so much more support with the Afghan war? It's because it was a war worth fighting for, not a war worth nothing. Invading Iran would simply cause more hatred to spread towards our country. And give Al-Queda yet another reason to try and kill Americans in any way possible.

Also right now negotiations are not even need, but there might come a time where it is needed, and when that time comes we'll simply negotiate, Iran will never attempt to go to war with us, they know that it would leave utter distruction to their country. You must consider who they truly are, a small country versus the United States of America, backed by other NATO countries.

Are you suggesting to all of America to deal with the high gas prices, especially the sky rocketing prices after the hypothetical Iranian war, by simply going green? Is that why many people are struggling to survive with less food due to higher gas prices? I'm sorry I didn't know going green would solve all our problems.