re: How many here would support a war with Iran?

I have supported it since 1979 and I still support it. They have never paid the toll for our embassy hostages.

To do what?

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Eh, you act like the US didn't have a part to play in that process...

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i know the post ww2 history quite well and know full well us and britts put in the crooked govt that WE wanted not their people. It still didn't give them the right to take our embassy and hold hostages for 444 days.

We really could not give them the Shah back - that would have created a bigger mess.

The ONLY war I would ever support would have to involve direct attacks on US citizens by another country. These proxy wars and wars instigated at the behest of our allies are not supportable

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It still didn't give them the right to take our embassy and hold hostages for 444

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Well, in their opinion it did and had we not had an incompetent POTUS at the time, it probably would not have lasted that long either...

As Iran believes that America is the devil and needs to be wiped out I doubt that changes much without a new way forward for leadership there. As for the people they would like to live in a peaceful society where westerners lifestyles are welcomed

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I feel like we never get clarity on the uranium enrichment thing and it's one of those subjects that you can use to support whichever side you want to pick in terms of intervention or not.

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100% this. They've been enriching uranium from during Obama years yet still haven't made enough to load a bomb? Find that hard to believe.

And muh UN inspectors.

Only if Israel orders us to.

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How many here would support a war with Iran?

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This is where we find out if Trump has it in the pants to be the President he was elected to be.

I voted for him for two reasons. Close the Southern border and keep us out of for profit foreign corporate wars. We'll find out soon if he's man enough on the latter.

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They've been enriching uranium from during Obama years yet still haven't made enough to load a bomb? F

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Generally, you have to enrich U-238 to U-235 at 3-5% to start a fission reactor. U-235 only exist as 0.72% of all uranium in nature. The fission reactor generates enough heat to heat metal salts which boil water to make steam and turn a turbine which turns a generator to make electricity.

In the process to make electricity the enriched uranium is surrounded by U-238 and receives a neutron to become U-239 which beta decays to neptunium-239 and then plutonium-239. Plutonium-239 is the fissile material needed to make a nuke.


The point is, talks about limiting Iran to 1% enrichment is a non starter. It's a disingenuous negotiating tactic. 1% enriched uranium is worthless in terms of energy production. If we are going into negotiation with the 1% enrichment requirement then the negotiations are set up to fail.

If we are dead set against Iran not having a nuke then prevent them from setting up a breeder reactor. Let them know that if there is any evidence that they are breeding plutonimum-239, the reactor will be destroyed.