[JLAGRAYFOX]

No, we should never plan a nuclear strike on Iran. There are millions of Iranians that like and respect Americans, and we would be making serious mistake in harming these good folks. The key would be a severe attack and destruction of Syria, taking out their armed forces and civilian population by the millions. Syria needs a good lesson, and if their people cannot overthrow their government, then so be it!!! When a nation commits itself to war, the object is total victory. Syria should be sent to hell, and maybe the Iranians will get the message as to reality in this world. However, it would even be better if we found Bin Laden and his ilk and slaughtered them all. I think the Iranians would begin to get the message!!!

[burzum]

If Iran can't get the message when we've taken over two terrorist supporting countries on their borders, they won't get the message from us pounding Syria.

[StJacques]

I do appreciate your sentiments, but I doubt world opinion would do anything but condemn us in even more vociferous terms if we turned on Syria to convince Iran we're serious. We've gone to the UN, we've attempted to make the process work and if the process proves worthless we can tell the rest of the world that we tried to work within the framework established to handle these kinds of disputes.

And part of my thinking in what I posted is that I do not expect Israel to sit quietly and do nothing while Iran builds a nuclear weapons program. One top mullah in Iran stated a couple of years ago that the weapons would be used against Israel, Ahmadinejad has stated publicly that Israel "should be wiped off the map," and there is already a long history of Iranian support for Hezbollah and Hamas to drive the point home to the Israelis that the Iranian leadership means what they say. Does anyone really think the Israelis don't believe the Iranians?

I also fear the possibility that innocent Iranians will suffer if it comes to our exercising the nuclear option, but at some point a nation's people has to be held accountable for the leaders who run their country, even if those leaders maintain control by extra-democratic means.

[TheCrusader]

"There are millions of Iranians that like and respect Americans, and we would be making serious mistake in harming these good folks."

This sounds like a terrorist's fighting plan, take pot shots at U.S. troops while standing directly behind innocent women and children that they know U.S. troops won't fire on. I think it's time to stop this ridiculous thinking and get on with the war.

Harry Truman was a liberal Democrat, but he had the brains and good sense to realize that killing innocent Japanese meant saving the lives of innocent Americans. Bush should come to the same conclusion soon, before it's too late and Iran is holding the entire world hostage with its nuclear arsenal.