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I seriously doubt this article is true. We aren't going to war with Iran - we can lob missiles and bombs at them all day, but we don't have the troops to send in, and unlike Libya, Iran would be a lot tougher nut to crack. If you can't put the boots on the ground you can't win a war with a big country (and this coming from an old Air Force guy).

Before anybody says "oh well, you can take out their nuclear facilities", the answer is "yes, we can take out their nuclear facilities", but that's just what they'd love. They would immediately flood the Iraq/Iran border with troops and equipment and then we'd have a huge mess in Iraq.

Iran wants to be a martyr so bad - they've been putting themselves in a position where they can claim the spiritual highground in the Muslim world, and having the US attack them would validate that claim. They would pull the "the US told us to back down, and we didn't" card, which would appeal to a lot of angry young Muslims.