With what? Bliar, Brown, and Cameron have destroyed the British military ...

The British Army barely has enough troops to mount the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace much less to attack Iran. The Royal Navy has no aircraft carriers now. The RAF lost half their fighters last fall.

I don't know about this, I cant see how the government could justify going into another war considering the economic conditions in the UK, not to mention out armed forces been have dramatically reduced recently. I hope we are not as stupid as to get drawn into another conflict. It certainly wont have my backing.

And here comes the WW3 posts in 3.....2.....1.....

I dont think the UK would be doing this alone. I imagine they would deploy naval ships to strike while off shore. Th UK also has aircraft in Cyprus and bases in Italy. Im sure if this were to go down it would be in a support type role.

The British are not like Americans, they will get to the streets and start smashing things up again if they get dragged into another war because of the US.

To be honest i was just shrugging off all the recent threads on an upcoming Iran war, as just a political conspiracy.

Seems as if this is serious though, personally think its a huge mistake. Just think of all the countries which would be involved, maybe even WWIII.

If the UK is daft enough to get involved, it would just be another foolish mistake made by the modern government. There will be serious changes to our leaders, maybe even protests and uproar.

We have ships?
eventually everyone will have nukes with long range capabilities, this world sucks.

Well it is the dumbest stupidest craziest thing to do right now...

...so it may very well happen.

Cosmic...

I was really filing all of this recent news in the back of my mind under "Doubtful That Will Happen" until this. Yikes, it's not just heating up anymore, it's on fire.

the UK will do what ever the US wants them to do and the US will do anything Israel wants them to do if ur gonna blame anyone for getting this one started blame the Israelis. why do u think the US is on like 3 sides of iran now because thats where the Israelis want them not to mention there's a lot of oil in Iran we want and when they have nukes it will be harder to steal

Or maybe Iran is the last stop before something "big" happens.
I'm just taking a guess here, but I do remember hearing talk of Iran being the next to be attacked for a long time.

I honestly feel they (as in the establishment) know the only real way to neutralise the hardened Iranian facilities is to use Trident missiles..

The variable payload of the missile and the new arming and firing mechanism is designed specifically for these types of targets (max damage with minimal fall out/casualties)

But honestly can any see the UK or the US using their Tridents Missiles on Iran?

Any other type of mission is a waste of time, men and equipment as it maximising the number of possible civilian casualties, which given the current political climate (especially after Libya) is not a sane path for any one of our leaders to choose.

And the war for popular opinion continues to rage on.

The real question I would ask is why people must die to serve the fear of elite political leaders?

Why must destruction and abject violence be the use for which our societies deploy the sons and daughters of their citizens?

Because ever since Iraq, the supremely oxymoronic "preemptive defense" is considered the means which justifies the notional end?

At some point the ability of these leaders to commit citizens to flame and pain for their ends must be challenged. Perhaps by forcing them to actually participate in the theater... or maybe by making their children participate.

IF there is an attack on Iran and IF the UK is involved there will not be rioting on the streets or a revolution and it wont be the start of WW3 either. Russia and China are not going to fight on the side of Iran and nobody is going to start lobbing nukes around the globe, there is no benefit to Russia or China to Iran having nukes.