We should to war with Iran

I do want to debate this topic, so I've gladly accepted your challenge. I suppose I'll start out by rebutting your arguments: 1) "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (President of Iran) wants to kill Israelis/Jewish." Well first off, I'm not even sure that's true. I tried to follow your link, but it just led me to Youtube, not a specific video. Anyways, I'd hardly call Isreal one of our biggest allies. And as for Ahmadinejad calling the holocaust a myth, that's completely non-topical, and doesn't really deserve a response. "Who says that he won't start another Holocaust to kill the Jewish again." What? That's hardly an argument to go to war. Who's to say that the British PM won't start another holocaust, or Germany's chancellor, or even our own leaders. A hypothetical situation is hardly a reason to go to war. 2) "He has testes the US and UK." I'm not exactly sure what that means, but you probably meant tested, so I'll respond to that. First off, I don't think that you've proven that Iran has tested us really. You bring up the boat incident, but have you looked in on it recently? The incident was not only a standard occurrence, but much of the story was over hyped, indeed, some of it was flat out made up. (1) And once again, this is not a reason to go to war. Potentially unarmed Iranian speed boats taunting US ships? Not sure where war comes into play. 3) "The threat of nuclear bombs" "Although there is no proof, Iran says they don't have nuclear bombs." You admit yourself that there's no evidence to support that claim. "Also, when there are anti-aircraft artillery guarding your one of your nuclear facility, that's a little strange" You have no citation, when I tried to follow your link, it took me to the home page of Wikipedia. "I live next to a nuclear power plant, and there are no guns of this kinds. Once in while there will be a lone guy watching cars" Anecdotal evidence isn't valid, that doesn't support you at all. So, you claim that it's possible that Iran may have the capability to produce a nuclear weapon, and you admit that there's no evidence to support that. Once again, not a reason to go to war. But let's say that you're right, even if they did have a weapon, you admit they don't have the capability to launch it at the US. And then you go on to say that they could give it to terrorists? You don't provide any logical link from Iran to terrorists, you can't just jump like that without supporting your claims. "My last point is, if we invaded Iran, took over the government, and made it a constitutional republic, we would have a leader of that country who is friendly with us, and try to bring the gas prices down" Not entirely sure how you arrived at that conclusion. Say we did manage to invade Iran, and set up a constitutional republic, why would they vote a leader in who's friendly toward us? The people of Iran didn't want us in their country, would they elect a leader who wanted us there? And even if we did have a friendly leader in place, he wouldn't be able to do anything about oil prices. Oil prices aren't controlled by individual countries, the oil supply from the middle east is regulated by OPEC, they decide what to sell oil at, not the individual countries. Now for my arguments: 1) Not enough troops. We don't have enough troops to fight the war we're in right now. (2) If we tried to wage two wars at once, our military would be stretched passed the breaking point. 2) Cost to the US. Our economy is close to a recession (3), spending money attacking and then rebuilding another country is the last thing we need. 3) Lack of US soft power. The world doesn't support us in the Iraq war, in a poll conducted in January 2007 around the world 73% of the people polled, thought the US was handling the Iraq war badly. (4) That's all I'll advance for now, I'll decide whether I need more arguments later. So far you've provided me with no reasons to go to war with Iran. You have no evidence, and your arguments are based on hypothetical situations, not facts. Still, I look forward to hearing from you. -Matt (1a) http://www.newsday.com... (1b) http://www.workers.org... (2) http://www.rand.org... (3) http://news.theage.com.au... (4) http://news.bbc.co.uk...