How many navy carrier groups does it take to not attack Iran?

Question

They keep sending them to the Persian Gulf, but there is no way in the world they are going to anything. And Iran knows that.

Answer 1

I've got the ugly feeling that attacking Iran has been on this administration's agenda for a very long time, and that they've just been looking for an excuse. Please, someone prove me wrong.

Answer 2

From the speech given by Adm. Fallon, I am really worried that a war with Iran is inevitable!

Opponents to the Iraq war already said that Iraq would become a hell if the invasion did occur. It turned out that they were right. Now if an attack on Shia Iran occurs, the whole Middle Eastern region would be in hell.

The civil war in Iraq would spread regionally. By the way, Iran is not the same as Iraq, they have a powerful military, Gen Abizaid already said that.

The TOR-M1 SAM for instance can easily should down a US jet. And those Iranian missiles can target and severely damage or destroy naval ships. Those same or similar missiles can even target US bases in the Middle East and can even reach to Israel.

If a war against Iran happens, it would be a very bloody war. There would never be peace in the Middle East that way.

Answer 3

You're probably right about that. This country has been so immersed in political correctness and seduced by this idea that sacrifice and altruism are noble pursuits, that even when there's a clear and present danger to OURSELVES, we now do what no other nation in history has done - demonstrate a complete inability of simple self-defense.
Your illogical and sometimes moronic questions are a testament to this. You are a product of this poisonous culture.
Hopefully, after the next Sept 11, which is definitely coming, thanks to this cynical culture, as well as people like you, this will all change.
I'd like to live through this crisis. I don't really care what happens to you.

Answer 4

By creating this "threat" to America. The Fascists in our midsts are arranging a confrontation with Iran.
This has been a plan for a very long time!
Many are involved. They are the New World Order people! Many are included in this group of people from world leaders to American politicians in BOTH major parties and the 3 largest banks in America.
By invading Iraq...we knew Iran would respond and through provocation would call all out Jihad! That was the plan!
Really think about it!
To all of the people who keep saying that there's no way the US would go after Iraq for oil or money.......who stands to gain the most by a American control over the Middle East?
Do you all realize President Bush has passed into law the right to order Martial Law?
Under this order he has Subsections that are referred to by "project" terms that are used militarily to take over all law and police jurisdiction in every city and town in America?
Don't believe me check it out for yourself:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Operation_Cable_Splicer

We are loosing control of our rights here. The Patriot Act is one of the first to go! For those who say well this went on in administrations for 20 years....yes you are right it is a huge movement and many are complicit!

Why do you think they are not answering questions about the unconstitutionality of the income tax! YES Article 1 Section 9 gaurantees us protection of the 16th amendment!
This has been building since the early 1900's!

Answer 5

I'm not so sure our military is there just to sit there and do nothing. I don't trust Bush and I think he is perfectly capable of getting us into an ever worse mess than he's gotten us into already in the M.E. I wouldn't be surprised if we started bombing Iran in the spring. All signs are pointing that way. According to Scott Ritter, we shoud be invading or bombing in late spring. I've also heard that we already have some military in Iran now.

Answer 6

Ever see a couple of kids threatening each other and calling names? Sticking out their chests and trying to look mean? Bingo.

Answer 7

Iranian officials -- emboldened but uneasy over nuclear-armed neighbors in Israel and Pakistan and a U.S. military presence in the Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan -- have warned that they would respond to an American attack on Iran's facilities.

"Iran's supporters are widespread -- they're in Iraq, they're in Afghanistan, they're everywhere. And you know, the American soldiers in the Middle East are hostages of Iran, in the situation where a war is imposed on it. They're literally in the hands of the Iranians," said Najaf Ali Mirzai, a former Iranian diplomat in Beirut who heads the Civilization Center for Iranian-Arab Studies. "The Iranians can target them wherever, and Patriot missiles aren't going to defend them and neither is anything else."

"Iran would suffer," he added, "but America would suffer more." As that struggle deepens, many in the Arab world find themselves on the sidelines. They are increasingly anxious over worsening tension between Sunni and Shiite Muslims across the Middle East, even as some accuse the United States of stoking that tension as a way to counter predominantly Shiite Iran. Fear of Iranian dominance is coupled, sometimes in the same conversation, with suspicion of U.S. intentions in confronting Iran.

Iran has found itself strengthened almost by default, first with the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan to Iran's east, which ousted the Taliban rulers against whom it almost went to war in the 1990s, and then to its west, with the American ouster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, against whom it fought an eight-year war in the 1980s.

Arab rulers allied with the United States issued stark warnings. Jordan's King Abdullah in 2005 spoke darkly of a Shiite crescent that would stretch from Iran, through Iraq's Shiite Arab majority, to Lebanon, where Shiites make up the largest single community. President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt suggested last year that Shiites in the Arab world were more loyal to Iran than to their own countries. And in a rare interview, published Saturday, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia suggested that Iran, although he did not name the country, was trying to convert Sunni Arabs to Shiism. "The majority of Sunni Muslims will never change their faith," he told al-Siyassah, a Kuwaiti newspaper.

Across the region, Iran has begun to exert influence on fronts as diverse as its allies: the formerly exiled Shiite parties in Iraq and their militias; Hezbollah, a Lebanese group formed with Iranian patronage after Israel's 1982 invasion; and the cash-strapped Sunni Muslim movement of Hamas in the Palestinian territories.

"If Iran is bombed, Iran's reaction is a sure thing. They cannot sit idle, and what kind of reaction they will take is a big question," said Abbas Bolurfrushan, the president of the Iranian Business Council in Dubai, a booming city-state on the Gulf that is part of the United Arab Emirates, where an estimated 400,000 Iranians live and work.

Mirzai, the former Iranian diplomat, offered a similar scenario in more threatening terms. Wearing a white turban and the robes of a cleric, he sketched out potential Iranian responses: cutting the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, through which 20 percent of the world's oil passes; retaliation in Iraq, Afghanistan or Lebanon; attacks on U.S. targets in the Gulf.

In an attempt to contest Iran's influence, the United States has sought to form an axis among Sunni Arab states it considers moderate: Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and smaller countries in the Gulf. Israeli officials have spoken about a possible alignment of their country's interests with those states to arrest both Iran's influence and its nuclear program.

In November, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he would try to deepen ties with those states, some of which have yet to recognize Israel, in what Israeli analysts saw as an opening bid to create an anti-Iranian bloc.

Answer 8

to flatten it out probably only one, what comes after that, is another story.

Answer 9

Glad your only daily decisions are to eat, poop and believe what the Media says, otherwise we would be in a heap of trouble.

Answer 10

You better hope we do! It will be hard to type on your computer with your skin melted off!