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Where were your strongly held beliefs when the idiot-in-charge that YOU elected and supported for 8 years went about doing the very SAME thing about Iran that is currently being done? And now you drivel on about your made-up fantasies concerning liberals, and how its their fault. The hypocrisy that surrounds you is so thick, it could be cut with a knife.

You wouldn't know a true conservative if you tripped over one. And many of the people you try to denigrate for being 'liberal' have done more to conservative the ideals of this country than the rightwing kooks that recently ran this country. It was moronic views of 'conservatism' like yours that got us into Iraq for NO GOOD reason - no one is "latching" on to WMDs...that's EXACTLY the reason our leaders gave us for going to war in Iraq. It is a pathetic lie that you apologists now deflect onto the cruelty of Saddam.

I'll just remind YOU that it was YOU who stood by and did nothing despite torture, genocide and the threat of a nuclear disaster from a number of countries throughout the world from 2001-2008....so go be ashamed of yourself for cowering like sheep for no other reason than petty partisanship. I'll give you one thing, at least YOU do not bother to disguise your cowardice.

What will happen when Iran actually has Nukes? What will we do THEN? Any ideas, folks?

Everybody wont somebody else to fight there war. I betcha when the first round go off they will hollow I want my ma ma!

This warning just scares me to death, and I am sure Iran is just shaking. Plus, when BHO hears of this mistake he is not going to be happy. The US is a terrible country. We have made so many mistakes by having expectations of other countries. BHO has not finished apologizing for our terrible mistakes. We absolutely must keep great relations with everyone in the Middle East. BHO's popularity is beginning to shrink in his own country, but he is still a major rock star over seas. He must protect that image.

I beg someone to please tell me when sanctions have ever worked. Waiting...........

Ralph K; from your post seems you want the Mid-East to become voting Democrats, Republicans, or Independent voters. After 4000 years of tribal law just how do you intend to make this accomplishment. When I was in Viet Nam a lady told me that the only way to win the war( sorry, conflict) was to load the women and children on boats and bomb the country from one end to the other, and then bomb the boats. Drastic, but she may be right.

With the UN, EU and obama making noise with their plastic sabers, I am sure Iran is quaking in their boots.

Oh no, not censure. That will fix them. Maybe Obama can dialog Ahmadinejad into submission. It has worked so well so far. After all Obama told us that Bush had it all wrong trying to isolate the despot. Turns out Bush was right and Obama is wrong. Dialog doesn't work with Ahmadinejad. It didn't work with him before and after the Iranian elections and it won't work on the nuclear issue. It only legitimizes him and makes the US come across weak. Stupid liberals, stupid Obama!

[R]s are Dumbasrocks......did you use the "I know you are but what am I" arguement?

That's the sound you hear from Iran's leaders as more idle threats are sent their way.

Barack Obama has no guts to confront Iran. Today at the international level, USA has no respect.

Let's think about this, Israel has the bomb, Pakistan has the bomb, India has the bomb, North Korea has the bomb. Why shouldn't Iran have a bomb if they want one? Let them nuke the crap out of each other, keep them fighting amongst themselves then you don't have to worry about sending our men to fight them... With all this concern of "Climate Change" can anyone explain to me why we would want to assist these third world Nations in building more cars, more industry, all in propagating more global consumption and competition for natural resources? Where is there any foresight in where we are headed as global populations explode, probably doesn't fit the politically correct mold.... my vote is to give them all the bomb and let them take care of their part of the World's over population problem themselves, kind of like a big re-set button!

to Ralph Kramer: Silly arguments you make there in the guise of togh talk. No matter what you think the Iranian situation does not warrant, a go it alone approach from the USA!

Iran has a right to nuclear energy. They are a signatory to the nuclear non proliferation treaty. The real threat is Israel with their undeclared nuclear weapons and their crimes against humanity.

Iranian leaders have ignored or creatively dodged the across-the-board international calls for curtailment of their nuclear arms program. Some nations, Iran and North Korea, are led by dangerously twisted people.

Liberals have consistently criticized unilateral actions by the U..S. Now they criticize an international call for tougher sanctions against a national government that refuses to grant its citizens the freedom to express their dissatisfaction.

Most liberal-minded Americans are so completely self-centered in their thinking they would let a leader like the late Saddam continue to torture and kill his own people.

They latch onto the WMD argument while ignoring the evidence of cruelty and murder under Saddam's regime.

The difference between Israel having nuclear weapons and Iran having nuclear weapons is akin to a law-abiding hunter having a gun and an untreated psychotic with a gun.

The terrorists groups and the Middle East governments that support them are cowards and murderers who hide behind innocent women and chldren.

Iran's leadership, steeped in radical Islamic thinking, are so obviously ignorant and so clearly dangerous, that it boggles the mind when people defend them.

Obama is indeed a paper tiger and his emptiness is repugnant. Americans worry so much about making their mortgage payments and so little about the poor who suffer under regimes like that in Iran.

You would stand by and do nothing despite torture, genocide and the threat of a nuclear disaster.

I am so ashamed of those in our country who cower like sheep and disguise their cowardice with lofty arguments touting half-truths.

I rarely post on the Internet, but the dribble I read at the bottom of this story prompted a rare response.

You are cowards and you are self-centered. You believe a single life is more important than a principle worth fighting for. Everybody dies. The question is do they die in front of a computer, in a health club, a bloated shopping mall, a fast-food restaurant, a bar, a half-million-dollar home, or fighting for something beyond their own self-interest.

We have done our DIPLOMACY, now it's time to get TOUGH.

Based on Iran's Rhetoric, more FORCE MUST BE APPLIED.

China and Russia should be the financial benefacto's of IRAN implosion, since everyone knows they are the ones making money on IRAN gdp. Background negotiations with the rest of the world not to be involved with giving the IRAN bozo's any weapons or money until the sanctions bring compliance.

All the rest of the world want is for IRAN NOT TO HAVE MASS DESTRUCTION WEAPONS, but be able to defend themselves.

Oh Lordy! How much more crap do we need to deal with?

Now those morons want Cheney to run in 2012? That sounds like end of the world when he is trigger happy.

Only dumb people vote for Cheney!

Smart ones will choose a leader!

Cheney was NO leader!

He must be related to Hitler!

geez!!!!

Ohhhh, I bet they are just shaking in their gestapo boots!

Really? Iran moves forward in it's effort to wipe friends off the map and all you d-bags can do is whine about Obama, Bush and the rest of the American can't-do crowd? How do you people vote? Do you recognize certain symbols in their names (we call them letters in the civilized parts of the world) and pull the lever for that party? Next time they run a story on the decline of America, look in the mirror and you'll see who's fault it really is. You can't bear to stand united so you will hang separately. Idiots.

I hope Iran gets the bomb, it's the best way to turn the neocon warmongers into groveling pussies.

Well, we will see.

IRAN and most of the world knows OBOZO is weak.

We'll see if OBOZO can stand strong. I've have to give him credit if he backs up his talk, but I won't be holding my breath.

How long's it been... three years? Let's get in there and take these sites out. Let's not wait until Iran can launch. What would Truman have done? Let's get a little smarter.

The people of faith believe etc. :

What a bunch of nonsense.

After reading pages of comments it is my conclusion that people who make these comments are total idiots. Therefore, I will not make any comment on the Iran situation but leave the problem to the man and party I voted for to reach the best solution.

Really thats the best you got , blame everything on Bush still ... a year later ... has or has not your " Leader of Change " had a year to Change something .. anything ..stop and think has he changed one thing other then increaseing un-employment , and turning our country into a laughing stock , before at least we had the fear that we would stand up for america

The United States has the biggest military machine the world has ever seen. They have ships in every ocean and nuclear warheads by the thousand. Now – see it from Iran's point of view – North Korea had nuclear weapons – nothing happened. Iraq didn't have WMD's let alone a nuclear threat – the country was invaded, its leader executed and its infrastructure destroyed. Can you see why Iran might want to acquire a nuclear deterrant – especially when the USA's little lap dog Israel is next door and is nuclear armed? The United States is causing this problem with its mindless agression.

Is this president trying to do the same thing that GWB did with Iraq?

Iran laughs at us , they will do what they want to.
President Carter , oops meant Obama will do nothing.
Big wus

Hey Dougie, thank you for confirming my 1st post: "The stupidity that excretes from the mouths of the rightwing underbelly is just astonishing." It was only a matter of time, and if not you, it would have been one of your fux-news-worshiping bretheren. As I pointed out in another of my posts, you reality-challenged ditto-heads "are a dream-come-true for the terrorists....you are dead-weight and a destructive influence to an otherwise vibrant American country and culture." Congratulations.

But it will take Obama about 4 years to decide what those sanctions might be. He's earned the sobriquet: Ditherer-in-chief.

I was reading a comment posted here mentioning Irans Religious zealots running the country.
Well check it out ...............The Religious Right running the Republican Party if no different.
Geez I wish you people would PAY ATTENTION and not mouth off the talking points alla Limbaugh,Hannity,Beck and Fox News..

MJM If you remember it was your pair of idiots, Bush and Cheney that got us in the mess we are in today. It took those 2 crooks 8 years to screw this country up,President Obama can't fix it over night. Hell it took Old Slick Willy longer than that to fix things and he didn't have as big a mess as what our Great President Obama has.Oh yeah, some of you idiot republicans said you wouldn't vote for a pot smoking liberal,why not? you voted for a coke sniffing idiot from Texas.Need I say more

Too little too late Obama, I guess that's what you get when you elect a guy with no experience just slogans. Hillary would have done a better job, and thats not saying much

Why the hell should Iran listen to the UN.
Israel does'nt.
Besides if we had people on our borders who want to do us harm, would;nt we want a deterent.
Listen up., all you sheep out there. it;s about time the U.S. stops losing American blood for Israel. Let them fight their own battles. Hell they got the bomb.

If Israel can have nuclear weapons why not Iran? Who is the biggest threat in the middle east right now? It's Israel. Not Iran. These drumbeats of nuclear weapons are the same as the drumbeats of Iraq. Look what happened. Did they find the bomb? NO! America wake up. You're being played again.

Wow the Republican trolls are out in full force!

Maybe we could do something about Iran if we were not so bogged down in Iraq. Oh wait, they had WMD right?

It sure appears that everyone is an expert these days. Maybe we should just attack everyone. I mean one more war on the middle east won't matter right? I mean its not like we could have done anything about this for the past 8 years. Oh wait we did, we decided to not talk to them, yea that showed them didn't it.

The election is over you lost live with it.

Why did Obama get a Nobel Peace prize like Carter and Arafat?

That is your answer on how he feels about Isreal, I'm not saying that he is wishing them death as every Democrat in America is to every moral, family values oriented republican like Sarah Palin and her family, but he certainly doesn't care if they get bombed, liberals support Islamic Jihad and Hezbolah.

Unless Iran directly attacks another country it is highly unlikely that Russia and China will ever back sanctions that will truly make any difference. By our continued failure to take advantage of our own natural resources and our continued dependence on Middle Eastern oil we have also created a situation under which military action can only come about with the price of oil skyrocketing overnight due to the inevitability that Iran will shut down the Straits of Hormuz..

As if the Iranians listen or even care lol. The leaders of Iran still have their heads up their asses and the only people who will suffer from further sanctions are the common folk.
It has been proven long ago the powers to be in Iran are corrupt and arrogant from the top down so it is no snot off their noses if the sanctions are extended or increased.
The common folk in Iran do not rate when it comes to the Iranian governing powers to be.

OOOOOHHHHHH i bet Amanjhad or how the heck u spell his name is really scared of Obama. The iranian president laughs at obama, for he sees Obama for what he is.. A blustering apologist used car salesman full of cool slogans, speeches and nothing else.

@AJ, Florida:

Thanks for the absolute worst analysis of the potential mideast consequences that I have ever seen. Now go back to your cartoons and leave us alone.

TO: awaitingliberalizationbyCNN

You have FOX news for you right-wing jerks. Go there and read all the news you WANT to hear instead of reading FACTS. There is NO media in this country, broadcast, written or radio, that is not biased in it's reporting. They are all biased toward sensationalism. If they have two sides to a story, the only one heard or, at the least, given an inordinate amount of emphasis, is the one that will be sensational or divisive.

You want unbiased? Go to the source. Go to Iran and talk to the people and the leaders of their government. Can't do that, can you? It wouldn't make any difference anyway. All you would hear is the same you get here: what they WANT you to hear.

Taking off your blinders and quit using the mindless party rhetoric would actually work. Open your mind, check out the FOX and CNN stories on a subject and USE YOUR GOD-GIVEN BRAIN to find out where the REAL truth is. Remember; there are always three sides to every story; side 1, side 2 and the truth. It's up to THINKING people to find out where the truth actually is between side 1 and side 2. Your chosen party refuses to allow it's followers to think. It's the party line or the highway and branding as a "traitor" or "un-American".

I saw a bumper sticker recently that I want for my car. It said, "I'm to well informed to vote Republican". It doesn't mean I'm a Democrat or Independent or any other party. It just means I can, and do, reason things out for myself and go with the PERSON that will make the difference. And in all of my almost 65 years, that PERSON has been the lesser of two evils, no matter what party they represented.

"If man does not have the courage, or will, to stop evil (anything that does harm is evil) then God WILL step up and do what he has equipped you to do. " - Just where in the NT does it direct mere humans to go to war against other nations in the name of "stopping evil"? And how does one stop evil w/o committing it oneself? How does one kill with humilty, or drop a 1 ton bomb while turning ones cheek?

The US govt has tried to control Iran for over 60 years, topple its leaders, supported its enemies in war. I can't imagine why they wouldn't trust us....

به نام خدا
سلام
زبان انگلیسی نمیدانم
زبان من فارسی است
با گوگل ترجمه کردم
به بهانه سلاح کشتار جمعی در عراق
جنگ با صدام را آغاز کردند
مردم آمریکا و دیگر کشورهای ژاندارم جهانی را در گیر کردند
رکود اقتصادی را از این راه نمیتوان برطرف کرد !
امروز هم مانند گذشته قصد دارند یک جنگ دیگر دایر کنند
به بهانه جلو گیری از جنگ احتمالی !!؟؟؟
رکود اقتصاد با دایر کردن اقتصاد ممکن است
دایر کردن اقتصاد با ارتباط خوب ممکن است
در صلح و سفر وهزینه کردن – کار و اقتصاد رشد میکند
با تشکر از شما
The name of God
Hello
I do not know English language
My language is Persian
I translated with Google
The pretext of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
Began the war with Saddam
America and other countries of the world gendarmes were involved
Economic recession can not be resolved in this way!
Today like they want a war in the past to establish
Intercept the pretext of a possible war !!???
Economic recession with the economy may start
Establish a good relationship with the economy may
In peace and travel to Vhzynh – work and the economy grows
Thank you

Hey mjm. Sounds like Ahmadinejad is a can-do guy. This attitude is much more in line with you Reagan-Bush II-worshipers - let's just get it done with little thought for consequences....just do it, whether it turns out bad or good. It certaily can't be that you are suggesting that Ahmadinejad is more like Obama because of resource give-away!! The experts at that, without a doubt, are the [R]s. You need only read the rantings of one J. Watt to understand this.

Obama, on the other hand, has more of a thoughtful approach, weighing options, analysis of facts. This process takes awhile.....much too long for you ideologically-driven reactionaries.

No, no, Ahmadinejad is right in line with you rightwingers. Nice try at deflection though. Ever since your party and its ideology started to consistently fail as it tuned more to the hard-right over the years, you [R]s have become expert deflectors. In fact the modern art of political deflection via rote repitition of fairytales was a central part of DumbasrocksGingerich's strategy for [R] control in the 1990s. And you guys are still at it, hoping the American people are still dumb enough to swallow it.....and I'll admit, the elections of 2000, 2004 gave you much hope that it was still so.

As usual from the right a bunch of arm chair warriors so quick to condemn sanctions and diplomacy which means they're advocating another pre-emptive strike.

Nothing but a bunch of war-mongering narcissists.

Note how all the Palin-loving neo-morons like mjm who post on here about immediately striking Iran have little substance in thier posts. Like little children, they sat in silence for 8 years as their 'teacher' fed them ideological 'sweets' while actually doing NOTHING, and now they take the opportunity to criticize the grown-ups currently in charge, but have very little in the way of constructive details to offer.

For example, do they advocate striking Iran with nuclear weapons, or conventionally? What do they propose the US do in the nuclear aftermath, both with a radioactive Iran and an expanding list of radioactive neighbors as the fallout spreads? Or, how much of a conventional intervention to they propose....how many American lives lost is it worth to premptively deal with this threat? And which level of threat shall we use to do this assessment - using input from the current state dept. and intelligence services or the all-nothing-knowing, ideologicaly-driven pundits on fux-news?

Look, I know your rightwing panties are riding painfully high, but could you add a little substance to your shrill rantings?......you know, for the betterment of our country. As it is, you rightwingers are a dream-come-true for the terrorists....you are dead-weight and a destructive influence to an otherwise vibrant American country and culture.

The name of God
Hello
I do not know English language
My language is Persian
I translated with Google
America and Iran relations
America can and America in the capitalist world and is popular
Disorient the main obstacle is the kind of dealing with extremists
Is very easy with a little familiar with Islamic principles
Commons of Islam – not Islamic experts
I'm ready to help
Iran Center for Middle East and Asia – close to continental Europe and Africa
Near China and India and Central Asian and Islamic countries and Arabic countries
The brains and knowledge economy
Popular with people of good social and communication are global
In connection with nuclear energy – related to people and experts – and peace following are the Scientific Affairs
Controversial politicians in the country and abroad and have no participation
Regret the disconnection of Iran and America
With a little reflection is good and proper working of world peace in the world to start
Today the world needs the space for peace
And our people, guiding generations of world peace we can
Components of the culture of the people there are standards and intellectual world
With orientation is low due to some traditions people required to run the government
Who in the world there is more profit and provide benefit to
I have a good plan
I am ready to help peace
Thank you

This administration will do nothing. Obviously Obama's "Apology Tour 09" didn't help. His friendly approach to diplomacy has netted the same results as Bush. We will know soon enough if he is just another Jimmy Carter

Tater, I couldn't agree more.

How about we just try to abide by the Non-proliferation Treaty, and let the actual inspectors try to find some tiny piece of evidence, any evidence, to show Iran is working on nukes – none have been found up to this point, and you all know it. The US, in contravention to the NPT, makes an inside deal with India to give them access to all kinds of nuclear technology, etc. DESPITE their ACTUAL development of a nuke IN VIOLATION of the NPT. PLEASE let's stop the warmongering can we? At least for Thanksgiving...

Even if The USA manages to get China and Russia on the group that can and will bring 'cripling sanctions' to Iran what would happen then? The Iranian people would suffer while the government and military and aiatollahs wouldn't one bit (like in North Korea), but perhaps those sanctions MIGHT (again MIGHT) be able to fuel even more the growing dissent in the Iranian status quo).
Silence Dogoode, Joseph MacArthur had the same idea for the Korean War... remember?

R]s are Dumbasrocks..........Ahmadinejad said he planned to create an "exemplary government for the people of the world" in Iran. One of his goals was "putting the petroleum income on people's tables", meaning Iran's oil profits would be distributed among the poor.[47]

I don't think this guy is a Republican. He seems to be more in line with .....Obama.

If fact Ahmadinejad's campaign slogan was: "It's possible and we can do it".[46]

Where have I heard that before? Hope and change? Yes we can?

Typical, a year late and an economic crisis short.

I love how the "righty's" commenting here, have absolutely no valid argument so they basically just post any ole ignorant comment (the more derogatory the better) cause they're like snot-nosed little children, acting out at another kids birthday party because Mommy and Daddy don't give them the attention at home that they're obviously starving for!......There........That was easy wasn't it? About as easy as putting the term "dope smoking liberal" to every weak, "alleged" argument!........ WOW.........Being a simple minded idiot is easier than I thought!!!!!!!!!No wonder you all do it so much!!!!

AJ, Florida.......I take it you're in....5th grade?

All the Republican idiots on here who say we should Bomb Bomb Iran you are well... no real surprise here... Morons! Iran has our citizens locked up bombing Iran will ensure our citizens in their Jails are murdered! Im sure you would be saying the same thing if you or your relative was locked up in Iran! Besides the Obama approach is best there is nothing like the entire civilized world turned against IRan! That way American lives and are resources can be replenished since we just had 8 yrs of destruction from within by a reckless administration! Run Cheney Run!

Maybe the type of sanctions which would hurt the Iranian people is what is needed. It's nice and quaint that their government is an extension of their Islamic Revolution but, their government is seeming too extreme for the health of the middle east and potentially for the world.

I believe every country in the world which believes that the "silly forever war situation" in the middle east needs to stop should completely cease all business in the form of a total boycott and cessation of diplomatic relations with EVERY country in the middle east perceived as a child refusing to grow up.

The bibles seem to say that if Israel gets destroyed that the world ends. I think that the message of this world needs to be revised (despite the gloomy predictions) ... Fine you all want to blow each other to hell? Good. We are not getting into your stupid messes and we are not going to be obliterated with you for the sake of bible predictions becoming true. We are going to ignore you and figure out how we can get along with each other.

If some bratty kid starts misbehaving ask yourself what (really) works: begging them to stop or (walking away from them)?

A. Smith, Oregon.......I think your tin foil is too tight.

If anyone is printing American money...it's the Democrats and Obama.

yes knee jerk reactions from yes the previous adminstration. are you ears burning Cheney? and now we got nuclear weapons on the menu. FOOLS

Sanctions won't work. Military strikes won't work. You cannot reason with someone / nation that is lead by religious zealots. Start sending arms to their opposition. Iranians need to fight for their freedom and bleed so that it will be remembered as we do our revolutionary war.

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YEAH! because we all know how effective those sanctions are against rogue states like Iran and North Korea...RIGHT?!?

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Crippling sanctions? Are we going to include Iran in our new Health Care Reform bill? That should break them!

Under the Shah of Iran, the United States directly offered several Nuclear Reactors built by US contractors to be placed in Iran.

Of course that disappeared after the extremely corrupt US propped dictator, known as the 'Shah of Iran' fled Iran and Iran fell into the utter abyss under Ayatollah rule.

One of the not mentioned items that US Taxpayers did give to the Shah of Iran were Gutenberg money presses that were identical to those which the US Treasury offices used to print American Money.

The revolutionary guard in Iran quickly began using those same Guttenburg money presses to forge hundreds of millions of counterfeit 100 US dollar bills. North Korea appears to have aided and joined with Iran in flooding the world with these counterfeit US 100 dollar bills. Eventually, the US treasury dept. was forced to radically remake all of its treasury bills (paper money).

The point being, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard should not have any industrial capability which could easily be corrupted into unleashing a even greater disaster on the world community.

The Iranian People should at least be repeatedly told that any strikes on their nuclear facility's would spread thousands of tons of extremely corrosive, toxic and radioactive Uranium Hexafloride gas across much of Iran.

Yeah........Thats what we need, "more sanctions".........Because we all know that the multitude of sanctions we already have in place against Iran have been soooooooooo effective thus far!!! Get a grip, and a life while you're at it,.......... Idiots!!!!!

Silence Dogoode, I couldn't agree with you more. These Iranians need to know that we will NOT tolerate a nuclear Iran. And that if this is the path they want to take then they can find out FIRST HAND what can happen when you defy the GREATEST military the world has ever seen. By the way I am a Conservative Dem. with zero tolerance for Iran's leadership

Hello awaiting liberalization by Cnn. Back these lude statements up with some empirical evidence. It is guys like yourself but have power ,that caused all this crap in the 1st place.

Amazing, I see one of the dope smokers attacked Bush on this. I am sure they will be attacking Palin on this. Liberals are dangerously stupid.

Let us not start another war. We still have several uniforms left at Fort Bragg. Let's put Bush, Palin and "The Cheney's" in them and ship them off to take care of Iran. Brother Dick knows what he is doing.

Obama keeps putting this off so he can get more photo-ops out of it. The only thing this president knows how to do is campaign or fly around on AF1 like it is his personel toy. Check out his carbon footprint global warming lovers.

IRAN, STOP BUILDING NUKES...

or...

...um....

we will tell you to stop again!

...and again!

...and again!

and if you STILL don't stop....we will pretend to draft mean and vicious sanctions threatening you if you don't stop...nyah nyah!

the renegades of the world just have no fear of Obama......

NOT Iran

NOT N. Korea

NOT Venezuela

and NOT even the Somali pirates.

They know a paper tiger when they see one.

Hey, Bone-heads who want to bomb this and bomb that. What many of you fail to realize is what will happen after the first wave of bombs. Let me explain this to you as I would to a 1st grader.

1. Action: We or Israel bomb iran.
1 Consequence: Iran unleashes hezbollah and all its minions [remember lebannon, Israel couldn't beat hezbollah with bombs] and now instead of only worrying about Al Qeada we have about 15 new terrorist groups trying to blow something up that belong to us anywhere in the world.

2. Action: We or Israel retaliate for Consequence 1.
2. Consequence: Iran puts a chock hold on all oil flowing out of the gulf.

3. Action: We depleate our oil reserve trying to fight them off, gas prices sky rocket, exxon mobil makes another trillion in profit.
3. Consequence: None of our fighter Jets can continue to fly, so they grounded. We are force to walk to theran and fight soldier to soldier [like world war 1]

Why you ask?

4. Action 1, 2, 3: made all other Arab countries believe we at war with Arabs not terrorists.
4. Consequence: We are not facing only Iranian soldiers, but everyone who fell for it, ranging from 12yr olds to the oldest men you think can fire a weapon.

5. Action: The US Govt is force to reinstate the draft to replace the fast dying US Military.
6. Consequence: China and/or Russia step in and declare themselves the new super powers.

Do you get that? This is just one of the many senarios that can play out if you become a cattle and let yourself be dragged to the slaughter house.

USE YOUR GOD GIVEN GIFT [BRAIN] AND THINK FOR YOURSELF.

Iran, nuclear-enabled or not, will never be a credible threat to the US. A nuclear-armed Iran may present a threat to Israel, but that doesn't concern me in the least, and I don't see why anyone other than Jews or Zionist dispensationalist Christians should care either.

Sanctions have never worked and will never work! Peace comes through overwhelming superior firepower and a willingness to use it, not through pacifism, wishful thinking, and diplomacy. Like it or not, that's the reality of it. Hitler called Chamberlain a "little worm" as Chamberlain fumbled with trying to negotiate with Hitler. Saddam successfully thwarted all UN efforts after Gulf War I. N. Korea adopted a policy of "up yours" and became self-sufficient.

President Obama: "Stop"

Iran: "No"

President Obama: "If you don't stop, you will force me to say stop again."

Think one had only Rice paper the other one Oil!

Unfortunately, you can't impose meaningful sanctions on a country without impacting its general population. And, in the case of Iran, you can expect that the government would welcome sanctions because it would just blame the United States for hurting its people. At the end of the day, you can't base a decision on whether or not to impose sanctions on how Iran's people would react. That is a closed society with government run media, and the only news people get will be from the Ayatollah. Forget the internet. Iran will simply shut it down, as is done in China on a regular basis. If you're going to do sanctions on Iran, you may as well make sure they're effective and designed to change the thinking in that government. The fly in the ointment, of course, is Russia, which seems to be totally unaware of the problems that a nuclear Iran would pose for the entire world, of which Russia is an obvious part.

Haven't we endured enough of this war-mongering, racist hypocrite? Cheney/Dobbs – now that's a winning ticket. Please, spare the American electorate.

I just bet Iran is quaking in their boots from this Third World government of ours. All blow and no go. Sounds like a momma threatening to take the rug rats candy away for peeking through the key hole.

Surrendering or apologizing are not very crippling, uhbozo.

We will just talk and talk and talk and then one they will have a nuke. Then we will have a meeting in DC and talk about what went wrong. Then there will be a war in the Middle East and our government will have another meeting. The the people will say haw smart it is to wait.

The most crippling sanction we could hand Iran would be to ship Palin and Cheney over there to live. Then that country would be saddled with the tri-fecta of rightwing lunatics: Ahmadinejad, Cheney, Palin. Then idiots like awaitingliberalizationbyCNN could travel there and worship their vacuous, hateful triumverate. The stupidity that excretes from the mouths of the rightwing underbelly is just astonishing

Do you really think our eunech president will take serious action to end Irans nuclear ambitions?

Irans has consistently showed that it will not listen to any voice of reason when it comes to the issue of their nuclear ambition so sanctions may not be the answer we are looking for in this case. What Iran need is a demonstration of force from the international community unfortunately that will not happen because there are vested interest in Iran from China to Russia.

Silence Dogoode: You do realize, don't you, that when you "Wait two weeks ... then bomb" that you'd be not only killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people, you'd be starting yet another war in the Middle East?

Who's the unreasonable one then? By your logic, we should be bombing North Korea, too, along with Saudi Arabia (Osama bin Laden was from there, and the Saudis finance terrorists); Libya; Syria; Jordan; several African countries; Indonesia; etc., etc., etc.

Heck, while we're at it, we should bomb Lockport, New York (that's where Timothy McVeigh was from); Alaska (the Alaska Independence Party advocates seceding from the Union, which is treason); and any U.S. town that has organizations dedicated to the overthrow of the American government.

I feel sorry for the people of Iran . to be the subject of radical religious control for 100's of years. like most people of that region . fear and threats . kinda sounds like the CHENEY EREA

When are we going to learn that economic sanctions rarely (if ever) work?

We keep doing the same things over again and expecting different results.

There is a name for that.

So many hysterical people the day after Thanksgiving! Chill OUT, folks!

First of all, "God's tongue" isn't going to get us out of this mess; our troubles of our own making, and it's up to us to address and resolve them.

I think sanctions are a good idea; it worked against South Africa. It will be hard to get China and Russia onboard, but it's not impossible. Neither of those countries want Iran to develop nuclear weapons, given the instability of Iran's clerical leadership.

Just make them listen to Obama flowery empty oratory ; they'll soon cave in!

lol.....nice try, Barry. Obama is such an empty suit that the rest of the world just laughs at him. Ooooohh, watch out Iran.....Obama is going to wag his finger at you and tell you that he really, really means it this time and this is your very, very last warning. Obama really needs to start wearing a puffy, multi-colored jumpsuit, oversized shoes a big, round red nose.

this is all people can expect right now. if people criticize the president for the way he's handling it then they are criticizing russia, china, britain, france, and germany for the doing the same thing. what other big country do you need? and people critizing are probably the same people. ya know, bush and cheney supporters who expect for us to just flat out bomb them and that's it. the former is the stupidest and most cowardly act by people who have the power and abuse it. kind of like what ahmendidijad is doing. so it's either you play on the same mentality as he does or take the smarter and more civil approach one step at a time.

It's true that we, with our allies, must take action against Iran soon. However, it is ridiculous to blame Obama for a threat that Bush Jr. let grow unchecked as he attacked Iraq to help his buddies make money. I know its hard for you to understand but some people actually think about their actions before making an intelligent, informed decision, not just a knee jerk reaction.

All that we need now folks, more tensions to start a THIRD WAR.......

More great investment opportunities to invest in The Great Military Industrial Complex right ?

Mr. President, make sure they cannot get their monthly supply of Duracell Batteries that keep them going and going and going. We all know that Russia and China are not going to go along with harsh sanctions against Iran. There is no way.

One thing at a time. Let Israel attack Iran first for their Nuclear facilities. Both might exterminate each others, and probably erase each others from the map. Palestinian problems might be solved, and also the Iranian problems. And Israel will be regarded as the true God chosen people and save the world.

I am a Republican and am still very much against this. He is too divisive of a person, too ego-centric and controlling, and his nomination would cost us in 2012. I would not vote for him, ever.

Tis administration and the UN can issue all the statements and sanctions their hearts desire. Iran will just keep on developing nukes until they think they can take us. And then they will try. They need to be stopped right now in ways they will comprehend. By force if necesary.

I'll never understand why we are waiting for them to build a nuke and then bomb Israel. The ONLY thing they understand is brute force.

If man does not have the courage, or will, to stop evil (anything that does harm is evil) then God WILL step up and do what he has equipped you to do. His tounge alone can defeat all that is against him....one can not cry out love to God yet kill his brothers..from the day of Adam we have all been one big famliy speaking in many languages (Babel). Iran authorities must come to their senses, God is calling for this.
In the deepest we are all God's children and are called to seek his will and wisdom for he knows best...it is only through real love that we as a world can achieve our full potential. Hate is dissension and serves no purpose for any. For the citizens in Iran, I am covinced the Holy Spriit has been moving many to see truth and pray they too have the courage to say no more to violence.

This move is so preposterous that I suspect the Democrats are behind it. They are probably secretly pushing Palin and Huckabee too. And now we have people pushing Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs!
Either the Republican party is suicidal or this is a liberal plot.

If they were working for peaceful use of nuclear energy why don't they open up to what they are doing. The world would be able to help them if they opened up. What they are doing is counter intuitive to what they say they want.

How about this for sanctions;

1. Stop and dismantle within 2 weeks. if you don't we will bomb you.

2. Wait two weeks...then bomb them...one more time people you CANNOT REASON WITH TERRORISTS.

Sounds like Hillary is getting ready to write another nasty note to Iran. What a bunch of clowns we have in this adminstration. The Iranians have seen no strength from the current administration. All they see is the bowing and kowtowing and apologies for the previous administration upholding the oaths they took. IMPEACH OBAMA before Israel is wiped out and WWWIII breaks out. This idiot the dope smoking libs elected is going to kill us all.

We can count on this dithering for years. Meanwhile the wonderful Irani government that St. Barack wants to engage has stolen the Nobel Peace Prize medal from the woman who won it in 2003. Maybe they'll steal Obama's too when they meet.