Iran spends seven billion dollars on its military at 1.8% of its GDP

[MrScorpio]

We spend almost ONE HUNDRED times that amount at 4.7% GDP of the world's biggest economy… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures

So, why the FUCK are the GOP clowns scared of the Iranians?

[liberal N proud]

1. We are not.

But a certain party in the region, one that we answer to, is worried. Therefore we do the dirty work and pay for it.

[teddy51]

2. Maybe because both China and Russia back Iran, as well as a number of other countries. n/t

[doc03]

3. That's what the GOP does, be afraid be very afraid. If you

watch Faux for 15 minutes that's all you hear, the war on Christmas, Obama's war on religion, the Mexicans are coming, the Iranians are coming, the deficit, the debt, gays..........

[UndertheOcean]

4. Umm , because It is a brutal Theocracy with an apocalyptic worldview ?

Example :
Being Gay is enough justification for a death sentence there.

The above is all I need to know to not want such an entity to obtain nuclear weapons.

I am sure the GOP is afraid of Iran for all the wrong reasons though : probably to lure in the Jewish vote ?

[WildNovember]

6. Bachmann thinks the US should be a theocracy:

She graduated from Anoka High School in 1974 and, after graduation, spent time working on a kibbutz in Israel.<13> In 1978, she graduated from Winona State University with a B.A.<1>

In 1979, Bachmann was a member of the first class of the O. W. Coburn School of Law, then a part of Oral Roberts University (ORU).<12>

While there, Bachmann studied with John Eidsmoe, whom she described in 2011 as "one of the professors who had a great influence on me".<14><15> Bachmann worked as a research assistant on Eidsmoe's 1987 book Christianity and the Constitution, which argues that the United States was founded as a Christian theocracy, and should become one again.

[WildNovember]

5. They're not. They're neo-cons.