[epow]

,the leaders and people in Iran might not like Hussein,but they and everyone else in the middle-east and Muslim world will see it as a attack of one culture and religion (the west's) of another (theirs).

That may be true of the masses, but I doubt the Iranian leaders and intelligentsia want a nuke-armed Saddam sitting next door any more than we do. No matter, even if Iran does see our intervention as an attack on their culture and religion we can't allow Iraq to aquire nukes.

[sneakypete]

That may be true of the masses, but I doubt the Iranian leaders and intelligentsia want a nuke-armed Saddam sitting next door any more than we do.

The truth is they have a LOT more to worry about if Saddam gets nukes than we do. He's killed more fundie Muslims than we have,and wouldn't hesitate to kill more. ESPECIALLY when you consider none of them have nukes,and they couldn't retaliate in kind.

BTW,this is the REAL reason he wants nukes. He wants to dominate the other Arab nations as their dictator. He KNOWS that if he were to use them against either the US or Israel that he would end up glowing in the dark.

No matter, even if Iran does see our intervention as an attack on their culture and religion we can't allow Iraq to aquire nukes.

I agree 100% with this,I just don't understand why WE should be the ones to go to war with them over it. All we would have to do is let his Arab neighbors know he is close to obtaining nukes,and that WE would't stand in the way of them going afer Iraq. They are the ones most at risk,and they are fellow Arabs. Let them take out their own trash. Our only role should be as part of a international peacekeeping effort that throws their asses out of Iraq once the dust settles,and moniters a election.