The US has a right to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

I think John McCain said it the best, he said that we could have left Germany in WW2 because the Germans would not have followed us home. But if we leave the Middle East, they will follow us home. If the United States does not play offense with people that threaten us and the world, we will end up playing defense, after we have been hit some more. You say that "The way I see it, it's not even a war on terror. It's a war on Islam. A few hundred crazies go after America, and now every Muslim that turns up in Iraq opposing us is a terrorist," Do you realize that America was attacked before 9-11? Since the Mid 70's the US has been playing defense with terrorism: 1979: US Embassy in Iran seized by radical students in Tehran. 1982: 30 Americans taken hostage in Lebanon by Islamic radicals. 1983: US Embassy in Lebanon destroyed by Islamic radicals, 63 dead. 1983: Marine barracks in Lebanon bombed by Islamic radicals, 300 troops dead. 1983: US Embassies in Kuwait bombed by Islamic radicals. 1984: US Embassy in Lebanon bombed, 24 dead. 1984: Islamic radicals hijack Kuwait Airways flight 221 and divert it to Tehran, 2 dead. 1988: PanAm flight blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland. 1993: World Trade Center Bombings. 1995: US military base bombed in Saudi Arabia. 1996: Khobar tower bombings in Saudi Arabia. 1998: US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed, over 200 dead. 2000: USS Cole bombing. 2001: 9/11 As you can see, it is not a "few hundred crazies" it is a grass roots anti-American movement that has been afoot in the middle east for the past 50 years. To sit back and stick our heads in the sand and hope nothing happens ur pure foolishness. Any sensible leader knows that if you fail to plan, you should plan to fail. To address your rebuttal arguments, when did I ever say that the US should invade Iran? I never said that. I said that if Iran were to gain a nuclear weapon, they should be stopped. That simple. There are a lot more ways to remove a threat than invading a country i.e. special operations, surgical air strikes, political pressure, sabotage. The US and other countries have used these practices many times in the past to eliminate global threats and they can be used against Iran if need be. To address your statements about the launching capabilities, I must respectfully say that your sources are wrong. Iran itself has stated that they have the Shahab 3 missiles operational, as of November 27, 2007. Here is the link to the news article: http://www.missilethreat.com... (scroll down to the Iran story). You also state that on the list of possible targets there were no US sites, again, I must respectfully say that you are wrong. I said, "United States military bases in Bahrain and Turkey." There are two very important bases for US operations in the middle east. The base in TUrkey is responsible for keeping troops in Afghanistan and Iraq supplied. The base in Bahrain is responsible for directing the fighting in these two countries. These are prime targets for a nuclear attack, and well within missile range. To address your claim about major warfare. Troop levels absolutely determine the type of warfare. As of 4/30/07, there were 146,000 troops in Iraq, and less than that in Afghanistan. These two wars have been going on since roughly late 2001. Since then, there has been less than 5,000 military casualties. Now, just for a comparison, lets look at the same time period during WW2. In roughly the same amount of time (about 7 years) in WW2, over 14,000,000 allied troops killed. I dont care what you say, World War 2 and the War on Terrorism are two completely different types of wars. In your closing paragraph, you make it out to be the fault of the US that we are being attacked. Almost as if we are the bad guy. I must disagree strongly. Did we ask for 9/11? What did we do to cause 9/11? What exactly is their motivation? Fighting against a country that they attacked? What did they expect to happen? I will tell you what they expected. They expected the United States to do what it has been doing ever since these attacks first started in the 70's, nothing. They expected us to sit back and do nothing. Their plan back fired on them, and they awoke a sleeping giant for lack of a better term. We got a President in the Oval Office who would not play softball with them. So I don't see that they are justified at all for the attacks against innocent civilians. I will finish with this. I am not advocating the invasion of Iran. Your entire argument is crafted around debunking an invasion of Iran. I am advocating that we play offense with terrorists, and nip the problem in the bud before it gets out of hand. We dont need to wait until we or an ally have been nuked until we step in. We made that mistake in the past, and it bit us badly on 9/11. Don't forget that. If you believe that the Iranian government is an innocent government that only wants to help its people by providing nuclear energy, you are dead wrong.