Bush and World War 3???

Question

what are the chances of this war happening? I really dont war to take place and i dont think anyone does....i heard if they suspect iran of having terrorist weapons that bush will declare world war 3.....now this is scary...is this true?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjGX2Gdj2Y4

I should hope he would have enough common sense not to put our nation in that kind of danger. If he is a Christian, like he claims to be, then he knows that WWIII will be the last major war this world sees before it ends.

Answer 1

At this point, President Bush is bluffing. WE can interpret his comment, "Iran, with a nuclear weapon, will be the cause of WW3" or something to that effect.
Basically, I think he is saying to the world, try to stop us from taking on Iran and you'll see what happens.
Is he threating the world?

Answer 2

Ok, we already know that Iran is a terrorist state and supports many terrorist groups. Right now we are worried mainly about Iran acquiring nuclear weapons and then passing those weapons off to terrorist groups.

President Bush can't declare world war 3. The world has to be involved before its a world war.

I have to wonder, what exactly is it about world war 3 thats scares you so very much?

Answer 3

A 'world war' is one in which many powerful nations get involved, choose up sides, and go at it. And a war that's fought all over the world, or at least in many places in the world. I just don't see that happening.

Bush can't really -invade- Iran and try to take the place over, because our troops are all tied up in Iraq. All he can do is bomb Iran, destroy a lot of buildings and infrastructure, and kill a lot of people (mostly innocent civilians, of course). Iran has some capacity to respond, but this is not quite the same as a -war- where one side is trying to gain territory and the other side is defending it.

If Bush did something -really- stupid, like using nuclear weapons, nuking Teheran for instance, they we might find ourselves the global villain and pariah. Our allies and enemies alike would band together against us. They don't have to attack us or invade us, all they have to do is to top trading with us, stop lending us money, and we'd be in big trouble.

Answer 4

I think it is pretty much a "given fact" that Iran has terrorist weapons and supplies them regularly to the insurgents fighting us in Iraq.

President Bush nor any other rational politician wants to declare World War III. It would take more than one country to have a "world war".

The only way I can see this happening is if Iran successfully creates an atomic bomb and bombs Israel. If this takes place, God help us all!!!

Answer 5

FIRST It is highly unlikely there will ever be a World War III in the conventional sense of the label. ( for a variety of reasons....email me for details) The war of the future is Unconventional Warfare ( UW )....it is much more economical
SECOND While Iran will not be allowed to attain nuclear capability....I seriously doubt President Bush would be foolish enough to invade. There is a strong growing pro-west movement in Iran. They "elected" (?) the current PM in a vain attempt to appeal to this pro-west youth movement
A ground war in Iran would be VERY ugly.....The south is mostly sand....but the north has the Karash Mountains.....war there would reflect the frustration of WW II in Yugoslavia
While the Iranians may lack the sophistication of a truly modrn armed force......they lack nothing when it comes to bravery, physical fitness and patriotism

"If you have an Iranian friend you can not have a more loyal or better friend; If you have an Iranian enemy sleep with one eye open"

Answer 6

Bush said that WW3 could be the result of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons. He wasn't threatening WW3, he was just stating that if a country that has sworn to wipe Israel off the map obtains nuclear weapons, the result could be an increasingly violent situation that ends up becoming a global war.

Think about how the assassination of the Austrian archduke became WW1.

As to the chances of it happening, it all depends upon Iran. If they obtain nuclear weapons, the Sunni Arab states may feel the need to have them too. You then have three sides (Sunni, Shiite and Israeli) all armed with nukes and axes to grind. The US has commitments to Israel and Sunni nations like Saudi Arabia; China wants to maintain a stable oil supply; Russia wants to restablish itself as a superpower.

Thus are the seeds of global war sown.

If the War on Terror is a violation of the Constitution, are the Wars on Drugs (Reagan/Clinton) and Poverty (Johnson) violations as well?

Answer 7

Well, it would be in character for Bush to "declare WWIII".

As the French proverb says, "Le tonneau vide fait le plus grand bruit." -- The empty vessel makes the loudest noise.

What else? How about his statement last week that Cuba is, according to him, "A Gulag with palm trees". A classic in the "Four legs good, two legs bad" genre, the statement ignores the fact that it is the United States which maintains a prison at Guantanamo Bay full of uncharged political prisoners who are subjected to daily torture and inhumanity. Don't you see? Whatever we may think of our adversaries -- there is no excuse for imitating them to forward our goals. If we do that, there is no moral ground for us to stand on -- not to mention the fact that our enemies will use our behavior to do the same and worse to our troops when they are captured, and point to our methods to enlist men and raise money for their cause against us.

Of course this is all part of "The War on Terrorism" which his administration DID declare -- nonchalantly ignoring the United States Constitution which exactly states "Only the Congress shall have the right to declare war". So Bush's policy also specifically violates his own Oath of Office to uphold the Constitution. But this is no time to pay attention to such trivialities, is it?

Answer 8

While Bush may strike the 'choke' points of the Iranian nuke-building process, the mere act will spark a regional conflict. It will not result in a world war with the resulting full scale nuclear exchange, only because the leaders of the major super powers are rational and still believe in MAD.

Answer 9

No one wants to see World War III. But if Iran has a nuclear bomb, do you want to take a chance and trust them? They are actively involved in fighting against us right now. And they despise anyone who is not Muslim. So I guess we can wait and see if they nuke NYC or DC, and then maybe change our minds . . . or get real and take action now that will prevent destruction.

Answer 10

How can Bush "declare" a world war?