You can only cry wolf once (Iran)

[bluestateguy]

We were promised that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, or that they were at least that they were in the advanced stages of building them. We were told that it was urgently necessary to launch a preemptive war. had this not been done. I might have been willing to take seriously the threat of a nuclear Iran. But you can only cry wolf once.

Hence, I will not pay attention to, or take seriously, threats or so-called evidence that Iran has or is building nuclear weapons. I will ignore stories about Iran in the news, in favor of something much more important, the NFL playoffs.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. The bogeyman always shows up to keep the people in line.

“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship…Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”
— Leading Nazi leader, Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg Trials before he was sentenced to death

[502ramjet]

2. The media hype...

OOOOOO. We are so hell-bent on Iran. Why? Aren't we the ones who invented nukes? Hell, we are the only country to use them!

[newyawker99]

3. Hi 502ramjet!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: