Even though Bush is talking tough, I would tend to believe that this is a idle threat and Iran knows this because of the following reasons:
1. Due to the convoluted and twisted lies that were told by the administration to lead us into Iraq it is going to be much harder to gain public support for a attack on Iran as the administration has a credibility problem not only here but around the world. The sad thing is that next to Saudi Arabia, Iran is probably the most dangerous country to US interests in the middle east, but we spent our collateral on invading a country that had no links to terrorism abroad. It's a complete blunder that Bush wasted all of the good-will that we had after 9/11 from almost all of the countries in the world and if we would of actually decided to take on terror by going into Iran or Saudi Arabia the world more than likely would of been more supportive but instead we went into Iraq even though we had been told by most other countries that they had no links to terror and the information on WMD's was shaky at best.
2. We are stuck in Iraq for the foreseeable future and the situation in Iraq has been getting worse the longer we occupy the country contrary to what Dick Cheney states. It would be very difficult to invade another country with a large land mass that is more organized than Iraq with the current manpower that we have available since we will be forced to keep the staffing level pretty close to what they are in Iraq or rick losing the country to a civil war.
3. No way Iran's allies China and Russia would stand still and allow the US to have a free pass into a country that is one of their major trade partners. This would not be like Iraq where the country has been in a box for years and had very little contact with the outside world, as Iran has aligned itself with Russia and China for trade, scientific and medical purposes.
4. If you think Iraq now has alot of terrorists in it after we became occupiers, Iran would have tenfold that with skills much more evolved than what we are seeing in Iraq. Hezbollah is well staffed and organized inside Iran and it is widely regarded that they may be the most skilled terror group in the world at the present time.
1. Due to the convoluted and twisted lies that were told by the administration to lead us into Iraq it is going to be much harder to gain public support for a attack on Iran as the administration has a credibility problem not only here but around the world. The sad thing is that next to Saudi Arabia, Iran is probably the most dangerous country to US interests in the middle east, but we spent our collateral on invading a country that had no links to terrorism abroad. It's a complete blunder that Bush wasted all of the good-will that we had after 9/11 from almost all of the countries in the world and if we would of actually decided to take on terror by going into Iran or Saudi Arabia the world more than likely would of been more supportive but instead we went into Iraq even though we had been told by most other countries that they had no links to terror and the information on WMD's was shaky at best.
2. We are stuck in Iraq for the foreseeable future and the situation in Iraq has been getting worse the longer we occupy the country contrary to what Dick Cheney states. It would be very difficult to invade another country with a large land mass that is more organized than Iraq with the current manpower that we have available since we will be forced to keep the staffing level pretty close to what they are in Iraq or rick losing the country to a civil war.
3. No way Iran's allies China and Russia would stand still and allow the US to have a free pass into a country that is one of their major trade partners. This would not be like Iraq where the country has been in a box for years and had very little contact with the outside world, as Iran has aligned itself with Russia and China for trade, scientific and medical purposes.
4. If you think Iraq now has alot of terrorists in it after we became occupiers, Iran would have tenfold that with skills much more evolved than what we are seeing in Iraq. Hezbollah is well staffed and organized inside Iran and it is widely regarded that they may be the most skilled terror group in the world at the present time.
