and that is after I'm somewhat careful about what I write. I understand the censoring of talk-backers who flame (personally attack other talk-backers) but posts should not under any circumstances be censored because the monitor disagrees with the political views of the poster. regards, Mike

Just remember appeasement never works either. Israel gave back Gaza to the Pales. and instead of the Gazanz living there in peace and growing food on the land they use it to launch rockets at Israel from! When Israel releases prisoners they go right back to terrorism. Arabs see appeasement as a weakness,giving back live terrorists back for dead soldiers they see as weakness. They only understand and respect force. Therefore Israel must rid itself of its weak leadership and put in place a strong gov. that will be feared by its enemies, especially if we want America to approve a strike on Iran, we need to show the Americans proof that such a mission will not fail we need a victory like the Raid ISrael conducted on Entebbee to put fear back into the enemy. As for Obama he is a danger to us all if elected president, he will be like a Jimmy Carter president, a 1 termer who gets stepped on by America's enemies!

If we've been SO horrible for them and every American but yourself is so ignorant of the situation, and Israelis agree. Let's just break off the alliance and everything will get better for the Israelis. And maybe you should move there with all the intelligent Israelis as well. People like you create more hatred and problems. You dont' do anything to make it better, you just criticize others.

but if Israel feels threatened by Iranian nuclear activity, the by all means, go take out the threat before TelAviv is immolated in a nuclear fire. At the same time, drop the drama queen act and stop provoking us to do it for you. I suppose all that sun, heat and lack of oil deposits keeps ya'll on the rag all the time.

from the two generations whose bad ideas have brought shame and dishonor on our nation. When you look at our nation and the political and cultural turmoil it is in with a failing economy, two wars being conducted halfway around the world, the domestic population more concerned with whether the Dodgers beat the Giants than with whether we are going to win in Iraq or not, the last thing the US needs is one less ally who supports us militarily and economically, especially in the region where our enemies are most active. My solution is for the United States not to abandon Israel, but to abandon the "Peace Process". A viable, functional, politically and economically healthy Palestinian state just isn't in the cards. The US should put pressure on Jordan to reinstate the Palestinians with Jordanian citizenship and build on Jordan's peace agreement with Israel.

It's all B S and Israeli propaganda.. There are no Americans who support that insane idea except Zionist Americans...but they're not real Americans anyway... TATA

I have done Master's in Statistics and I tell you that you can prove anything these days. I can also show you the poll that says 90% of "Polled" Americans do not support Iraq war or an attack in next 10 years on Iran. 39% "Polled" Americans still think that Luner mission never happened and a good 73% "Polled" Isrealis think that they should be the only one in middle east to possess nuclear bombs and out of those 73%, 59% think that "world community" means USA, UK and Isreal. Need more stats? :)

I can support Americans even while not supporting general ideas behind wars. No one wants a lot of crying mothers, or soldiers coming back both physically or psychologically traumatised. Also no one wants to see civilians dying or suffering. These are but parts of the heavy costs of war. Even if only thinking in monetary terms, how many people do you know who would be willing to shell out $10,000 or $20,000 at least out of their pockets before going into a war? I can guarentee that people would think about such more.

You need to learn History Joe, the US sponsored cue in 1953 (Operation Ajax) in a western attempt to control Iranian oil fields (sound familiar) that overthrew the democratically elected government of Mohammed Mosaddeq in Iran and installed the brutal murderous western aligned dictator known as the Shah of Iran who was no better than Saddam, and who was later overthrown by the people of Iran in the revolution of 1979. Clearly the people of Iran had the right an a duty to depose such as madman, and by doing so did not attack any other country as you implied. The US hostage crisis was over the fact that the US had protected and harbored the Shah from prosecution by Iran for his many crimes against the people of Iran, and you can certainly imagine what the USA would do to a country opening harboring Osama Bin Laden I bet. The Iran/Iraq war was started by the US Backed regime of Saddam Hussein Iraq invaded Iran on 22 September 1980, not by Iran, and I bet you also did not even know that Israel was selling weapons to Iran (with US permission) while the US was providing weapons to Iraq (including materials to deliver WMD's (poison gas) in order to foment the war in order to weaken both countries to make them again ripe for western takeovers. I could continue with your history education, but I doubt you can absorb what I've already provided, but I think I have debunked your fallacious claims well enough to prove that indeed Iran has never attacked any country, but if you are still confused, I will endeavor to continue your history education.

It seems to me that since Iran has made public statements of wiping Israel off the map and that the US will die, and they are further enhancing their nuclear ambitions, we should act first. The world's top military and largest airforce teamed with the world's second largest aifforce could correct this looming problem in 2 days. It would only take another 2 days to allow oil to keep flowing through the gulf. Diplomacy will not work as Iran uses it only to stall. Increased security will be needed as there is a lot of enriched uranium and we don't want dirty bombs from terrorists.

Wake up from your dhimmitude and end your red herring arguments- the US C-O-U-P (not "cue") has nothing to do with Iran's aggression and occupation. I notice you didn't dispute my claims of Iran's occupation of the Tunbs and Abu Musa Islands. I also noticed how you conveniently forgot that the casus belli of Iraq's invading of Iran was the Ayatolla asking Shia Muslims in Iraq to rise up against the Baathist government. Much like now, Iran was using proxies to fight its foreign conflicts. As regards the Islamic Revolution and the Hostage Crisis, the current theocracy was and still is far more brutal and depraved than the Shah's regime was. You are only partially correct in your assertion that "[Iran] did not attack any other country"- the current theocracy attacked and destroyed the nation which preceded it. We can argue about this for days on end, Peaceful Pat, but like it or not, your skipping over pertinent facts renders your claims that Iran has never attacked another nation and isn't occupying another country's land completely fallacious.