Here's why we should invade Iran NOW...

[skooooo]

...according to a couple of counter-protesters in NY on 42nd street:

Ready? Because the Shiites will support our invasion, same for Saudi Arabia. They're ready for it. We need to clean up the entire Middle East.

When I asked them about the innocent people that would die, the counter-protesters had nothing to say. Oh, and we should just nuke North Korea. So says America's finest.

[jpgray]

1. That's an ignorant fellow

SA is majority Sunni, Iran is majority Shia, if I remember.

[aquart]

4. The people of Iran are Persians, NOT Arabs.

There's that, too.

[stavka]

8. The majority are - but there are also Kurds, Turkomen etc

[hang a left]

2. you are joking.....

right? :shrug:

[skooooo]

5. nope....

I tried to get him to explain the logic to me. I said, the Shiites aren't supporting us in Iraq now. Their response -- It's Iran stirring up the trouble.

According to the counter-protester, Iran will be really easy to take over -- no problem.

These people are so scary.

[hang a left]

7. incredible. n/t

[noahmijo]

3. Let's "invade Iran"

When those Shiites and Iran's citizens actually revolt against the emums and their extemist leaders and call for us to come and help them out.

Call it humanitarian assistance or whatever sort of assistance you want, but that would be a very different situation than just "pack your bags we're dropping bombs cause our cowboy leader says so"

Honestly that I would support, let THEM start the fight, we come to help and I'm sure the UN would assist as well so it's not like we'd shouldering the entire burden and I doubt we'd be viewed with the same contempt as we're being viewed over Iraq.

As always I am dreaming, especially since we're already stretched thin in Iraq and we got that mess to deal with as it is, not to mention the small crushing fact that I doubt any middle eastern nation trusts us to do anything for them at this point.

[Cat Atomic]

6. Bush killed the dissident movement in Iran when he invaded Iraq.

When people feel that they are under siege, they support authoritarians. Just look at the last few years here in the US.