Reply #40: You really believe that war with Iran would be an easy victory?

[Rhiannon12866]

Think again. This is not Iraq, which the U.S. bombed back to the stone age during the ``first'' Gulf War. Their infrastructure was completely destroyed and 12 years of U.S.-led U.N. sanctions left once-prosperous Iraq at third-world status.

This is not true for Iran. Iran is much more populous than Iraq. If you think that a war with Iran would be an easy victory, just ask Saddam Hussein. His war with Iran went on for years, with horrific numbers of casualties. The only way he managed to survive at all was by obtaining weapons from the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations. Saddam was then considered a U.S. ally.

Iran once had democracy. It was snuffed out, thanks to U.S. interference. The U.S. helped establish the Shah and his brutal, repressive regime. Iran has not forgotten and will not put up with this again. New elections are coming up. Iran is well on its way to establishing a democracy once again, if left on its own.

This article explains how the U.S. replaced a democratic Iran with a brutal dictatorship:
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0810-06.htm