Originally posted by cavscout
Sooooo, are we talking about just within the last year or two?
Iran held Americans hostage, remember?
And they all survived as i recall which can't be said for the tens of thousands of victims of the US backed Shah? Why shouldn't we expect at least a few Iranians to respond in kind to the violence the US sponsored against them?
They fought a long and verrrrrrry bloody war with Iraq, remember?
Which they didn't start and in the end lost. Once again Iraq had plenty of support and it's surprising that a few Iranians have not tried to settle the score by terrorist acts on US soil.
They took several British military members hostage for a week, remember?
Which were trespassing on Iranian soil and could have been shot for spying. Since America is in the habit of bombing rioting prisoners of war i don't see why i should get very angry when the Iranians hold on to a few British men for a week!
And, although I guess you cant blame them, they are supplying men and weapons to Iraqi freedom fighters.
So goes the rumors but how much proof have we actually received? Last time i checked the Iraqi government denied this?
Right or wrong, they are fighting a proxy war with the US in Iraq AND fighting a proxy war with Israel through Hezbollah.
So where is the evidence for Iranian government fighting the US in Iran? Why would they even have to given the level of hostility in that country? Do you realise that hundreds of Iraqi army formations never fought the US during the war and simply took their equipment home? Do you think the Iraqi army did not prepare for a protracted guerilla war by placing weapon and explosive cache's everywhere? How they hell do you suppose they have been keeping up this level of fighting for so many years by relying on cross border smuggling with Iran? Is the US armed forces so completely incompetant that they can't even safeguard a border with a nominally hostile neighbour? What are you thinking?
I dont support a war against them, however you cant deny that they aren’t the peaceful little victim just sitting by and being attacked on all sides.
While i am not sure that i would rather have the current Iranian regime running the world i also know where they come from and understand that the Iranians long ago tried to pick better leaders which where then overthrown by the same old imperial powers.
They wanted regional influence, they wanted to fill the vacuum left by Sadam in the region, so their leaders put on big boy undies and started mouthing off and instead of ignoring them like we should have our leaders wont let them just bow out and take off the big boy undies.
Everyone wants regional influence as that strengthens your hand in the economic theater. Other than that i can but ask how old you are given the references to underwear.
I dont think Christ ever said that.
You cant, no mater what the Pope claims, revise the words of the Lord.
So what did Christ say and are you a new testament type of a guy or a old testament type of fundamentalist?
Can you please provide for me the verse where Christ said war was OK under any circumstance at all?
I'll leave that to the people that think were better off fighting for one god instead of another.
I seem to remember him telling us to turn the other cheek, even unto death, even 777 times if necessary.
Indeed and if you actually read a bible you wont know if you should kiss em or kill em hence the Schizophrenic behaviour of your average religious fundamentalist.
Stellar
NO human KNOWS how life works!!! anyone who says they do is DELUDED!! That all sounds like the rantings
of NWO follower, so people will do nothing to protest thinking that they'll all be 'SAVED' after. I think Ahmadinejad is Illuminati. The timing of
his speech and the fact that we all know that the US want to attack NOW, gives them the PRETEXT to do it. He plants the seeds of fear into peoples
minds, the US reacts. PROBLEM-REACTION-SOLUTION. [/quote 
