[Travis McGee]

You think it will be that easy? Just a nice clean short airwar, and all will be fine? I don't think so. We may have to do it, but it will be far from easy. For starters, what will happen to trillion dollar global hedge funds and derivatives markets when oil explodes past $300 a barrel after the Hormuz is shut by cruise missile warfare? The economic shock may destroy the global economic sytem....which is Ahmadinejad's explicit goal. Whether he gets there by launching nukes, or plugging the Hormuz, may not matter.

And don't expect the world to stand and cheer when "Cowboy" Bush launches another "unecessary" preemptive war. Half of America and most of the world will condemn any "preemptive" strike, if the result is a global oil crisis leading to a systemic financial meltdown.

We may have to do it, but please, DON'T think it will be a quick, glorious, high tech victory.

[joseph20]

You have been spamming every single Iran thread with your pictures of Iranian missiles, and your warnings that America is going to have a very hard time battling Iran.

I really have to wonder who you are loyal to. You make an excellent propagandist for the enemy.

[Travis McGee]

[JHBowden]

"Whether he gets there by launching nukes, or plugging the Hormuz, may not matter."

This does matter. We can survive option #2. Option #1 (a nuclear bomb going off in London, Tel Aviv, or Los Angeles) we cannot.

[oceanview]

your posts on this have been very good, I have also been trying to caution freepers about what this attack would really mean. its not some 72 hour air war.