What an ignorant answer. One step away as in, 2 years? 5 years? George Bush attacked Iraq and Afghanistan. He is playing the diplomacy angle to make the rest of the world happy. Not necessarily because it is what he wants to do.
A country in shambles from 10 years of fighing and they are laughing in a superpowers face. What? Your answer baffles me. You are either a liberal that is narow minded or you are begging for an argument. I am sitting in a class in Baghdad and would love to debate this with you, but we only have 10 minutes breaks.
The entire world would love to see Bush jump the gun which would be a huge mistake right now.
You're gambling on your personal intuitions regarding Iran's nuclear bomb capabilities and I gave an ignorant answer? The world's best experts are saying that Iran is anywhere from MONTHS to a couple years away at most. Some say they may already have the bomb because of Pakistani and Russian help. No matter whose guess is closest to factual, they're WAY too close to having the bomb for comfort. And waiting around for that 'perfect time' to do something about it just might turn out to be another major miscalculation by the Bush White House.
Was it you who said Iran is still recovering from their ten years war? That ended over 16 years ago, and they have since become wealthy from their oil sales and have spent billions and billions on their military. But their real leverage is their oil, and the Straits of Hormuz, and their ability to damage the economies of the West if a war is started. Which is exactly why they have to be dealt with swiftly and decisively, as in bombing their nuclear facilities to ashes. The longer Bush delays, the worse it gets. Just as he delays in closing our borders because he's a weak kneed liberal, he's dallying around with Iran.