The united states should declare war on Iran

I will go straight down my opponents arguments and then on to further my own case. 1. The word should is used to soften a direct statement as defined on Merriam Webster's online dictionary, it does not meant that we will not automatically go to war. Also declare means to formally state an intention. When we formally declare that we are going to go to war with Iran the fact of the matter is that they will not sit on their butts until we decide that we want to do something. Iran is a militarial nation and they will not hesitate to launch the first strike should we give them reason to. They have been trying to bait the united states since the very beggining by spouting off at the mouth and formally stating things about the destruction of the united states. 2. Now I would like to address my opponents attack on my quote that I use to open my case. The biggest part of that quote is that we should have the understanding and support of our people. United states citizens were all guns blazing when we first declared war on Iraq but the fact of the matter is that about after six months or so the war began to drastically loose support. US citizens don't support the war that we are in now... they won't support the United states going to war with another middle eastern country. That is the point that was being proved with that quote. As far as his attack on last resort as I stated in my last paragraph Iran is trying to bait the US they will not make the first move. While popular support may not always be right you have to have it to declare war on another nation and to endanger the lives of all of your constituents because if the US declares war on Iran who knows if the fighting will only be contained to the middle east like it was with Iraq. 3. to contend his attack on Iran being a militarial nation: The size and training of an army does have an effect on what kind of war will be fought and how long that war will last. Iran may not be on the cutting edge of military technology but their biggest friend, Russia is. If we declare war on Iran Russia will most defiantly side with Iran, those intentions were made very clear by Vladimir Putin. As for my opponents third point under this attack when he talks about war not being man on man... I agree with this it is not man on man anymore. it would be better if it was, then the amount of innocent lives lost would be minimal. If we declare war on Iran it would mean the killing of innocent women and children. We cannot simply go into another country and start dropping bombs, there are innocent people there that we must account for. And just for the record Britain obviously should have gone to war with the Nazi's because: 1. they had the support of the Russian Army, 2. Nazi Germany was committing genocide and bringing horror to the world around it whereas Iran has done nothing directly to the United States or anything close to what the Nazi's were doing in Germany. 4. As for his attack about troops they are an issue we need to bring them home because already as it it we are leaving our troops overseas for longer periods of time and not giving them enough time at home. We have had a sharp increase in the number of troops coming home with mental problems in the last three years. Not to mention that we cannot just withdraw our troops out of Iraq as my opponent is suggesting. It has been proposed by many people Democrats and Republicans alike and they all agree that it will take time and patience so that we do it right. Money is and issue. Everything is about money.. it makes the world go round and it fuels the US. Right now the US economy is in a really bad position on almost everything an dthe fact of the matter is that we don't have the money to fund another war without pushing ourselves deeper into debt and more towards depression. 5. as for his linguistic analysis: A. I have already attacked the would should, it does not mean an positive impact, it does not mean possibility. If you accept the Affirmation's argument about an "on balance" burden of proof.. on balance means to take everything, absolutely everything into consideration. the con has offered far more reasons with far more further reached impacts. I have already attacked the world declared. 6. As for his contention one about nuclear proliferation, there are other ways of going about this such as promoting the CTBT. Dropping bombs will not stop nuclear proliferation in Iran, that would be like eating cheeseburgers everyday and expecting to loose weight. My case: The US people would not support it and we need their support to go to war. That is a fact and it is evident in the war in Iraq they just want our troops home now. we don't have the money or the troops needed for this war. Troops will be needed no matter what you cannot phone in a long distance war it just does not work. Iran is a militarial nation which means that the loss of life will be much greater than just going against a nation that is a bunch of farmers with pitchforks. Russia will be in the mix and that could very well lead to world war three and that is something that we most defiantly do not want. Iran has offered the united states peace talks and diplomatic solutions that we have chosen to ignore. We should use more diplomatic options before resorting to declaring war. There for I ask you to please vote in negation of the resolution before you today.