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Originally Posted by crockett
Iran is already attacking our troops in Iraq, so what's the difference? If it came to blows Irans entire mobile army would be wiped out. The second they were spotted making any large ground movements they would be bombed to hell. Remember the "road of death" in Dessert storm?
What was left of Iran's army would be stuck in a defensive position unable to move soon as the bombs started dropping. The best they would be able to do, would be to launch small terrorist attacks in Iraq and within the region. Again what else is new, because Iran already does that.
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You just don't get it do you? lol. I don't disagree the US would wipe out Iran's army, that isn't in question. Just as I agreed it would wipe out Saddam's army. But as I predicted would happen in Iraq (and I was an opponent to the Iraq war prior to the engagement beginning) the real war will happen with militia's and regular people on the corners, and in the neighborhoods and in the markets and on the side of the road. Iran has held back a lot in Iraq, as have Shia in Iraq in general. They've done this purely for political reasons, don't mistake that.
Do you honestly think Iran is going to send its divisions into Iraq into a direct confrontation with the US? You're an idiot if you do (and you seem to think that's what I was suggesting). What they will do is finance, equip, train and give the blessing to militants in the country already following their lead (which is more or less all Shia groups) to fight an all out guerrilla war. The US has already shown it's inability to control such conflicts, and even if they continue to dominate the situation without a doubt in my mind a heck of a lot more young American's will get sent home killed or injured as a direct result of an attack on Iran, and any progress mad in Iraq in recent times will be lost overnight.
This is completely forgetting what the Sunni's in Iraq and the Sunni Arab states will do (financing wise) when the Shia's do rise up there. It will be a bloodbath, and will peak well beyond the highest levels of violence seen in Iraq to date. Of that I am sure. Your response though just shows a complete lack of understanding to the politics and history of the region. For all its rhetoric Iran won't fight much of a direct confrontational war. Its missles are more likely to be fired from Lebanon and Hezbollah than they are to be fired from Iranian soil at Israel. And we already know how effect Israel was in wiping out Hezbollah last time.