yes, indeed they are... I noticed it when I stood frozen for 5 minutes, listening to one of the last speeches given by Mitt Romney. The way I see it, he is just as dangerous as his counterparts in Iran. He clearly said he would want an even MORE armed USA. FFS
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lol, check mate!
Imagine this - for one day you become and Iranian citizen.
You quickly realise that your life isn't much diffrent than the one in America. You have a job, family, you go to a store down the street every day to shop for groceries, you save money hoping to buy a car for your son once he turns 18.
Everything seems peachy except there is this America that keeps threatening to attack you because you work on nuclear technology.
-The USA keeps violating your air space by sending in drones to spy on you and when your army decides to shoot one of these drones down it causes a huge uproar among americans.
-Over the years god knows how many Iranian nuclear scientists died in suspicious accidents or were outright assassinated in car bomb attacks.
-Directly to the south of your country there is the Persian Gulf with part of American fleet chilling there and regulary conducting maneuvers.
-To the west there is Iraq recently invaded and 'conquered' by the USA and there's also Turkey working with the America.
-To the east there is Afghanistan crawling with US troops and Pakistan - the biggest ally of the USA in the region.
-Oh also there's this Israel with their Mossad which is probably responsible for all those assassinations of your scientists. They also have a few dozens of nukes which have been pointed at your house for the past few years.
Now if you were an Iranian would you take all that?
Considering that one of the arguments used against Iran having nuclear weapons is that their goverment is unstable I admire how patient they have been so far.
If I was in charge there as soon as I got some weapons of mass destruction in my hands I would've nuked everyone around me, not for conquest, but to protect my people because everybody seems to be after me.
Last edited by hidey0shi; 2012-02-04 at 04:48 PM.
I think the Iranian President once said something like "What's the point of having 1 nuclear weapon when your adversaries already have thousands"?
Not sure if thats the exact quote, but I think what he is basically saying is that they don't see a point in even making nukes when everyone else literally thousands at their disposal.