Iran is a much more complex place than Iraq is(was).. Here's the inside scoop

[SoCalDem]

All the data here




Rank City1 Population Year
1. Mumbai (Bombay), India 11,914,398 2001c
2. São Paulo, Brazil 11,016,703 2006e
3. Shanghai, China 10,996,500 2003e
4. Moscow, Russia 10,101,500 2001c
5. Seoul, South Korea 9,820,171 2005c
6. Delhi, India 9,817,439 2001c
7. Karachi, Pakistan 9,339,023 1998c
8. Istanbul, Turkey 8,831,805 2000c
9. Beijing, China 8,689,000 2001e
10. Mexico City, Mexico 8,591,309 2000c
11. Tokyo, Japan 8,483,050 2005p
12. Jakarta, Indonesia 8,389,443 2000c
13. Shenzhen, China 8,277,500 2005e
14. New York City, U.S. 8,085,742 2003e
15. Tehran, Iran 7,796,257 2004e
16. Cairo, Egypt 7,629,866 2004e
17. London, U.K. 7,429,200 2004e
18. Lima, Peru 7,029,928 2004e
19. Bogotá, Colombia 6,776,009 2005c
20. Bangkok, Thailand 6,320,174 2000c

[HCE SuiGeneris]

1. Can we please not go and invade this country

dear "leaders"?

[movonne]

2. This is my worst nightmare....I think this will be the last nail in our coffin...

[SoCalDem]

3. Cheney reallllly wants to attack Iran.. so we probably will

Bush doesn;t care.. he's a short-timer and probably looks forward to dumping this into the lap of the next president..just like his daddy did with Somalia.. there was NO reason for us to get all "military" about Somalia..when he did it.. he did it because Clinton has at odds with the military and he wanted to toss him a military hot potato to deal with right out of the blocks..

Bushes hold grudges, and they don't care how many innocent people die, if they can "get even"..

[Kelly Rupert]

4. Bigger? Yeah. Complex? Certainly.

More complex? I don't really buy that.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. What exactly are your doubts as to the lesser or equal complexity associated with attacking Iran?

I find it very curious that you have compared and contrasted the complexities involved. Just wondering what your data points are.

[Kelly Rupert]

6. Complexity of attacking Iran? I don't believe we were talking about that.

We were talking about the complexity of the political, ethnic, and religious makeup of the country of Iran, as compared to Iraq.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

7. I suppose that the leap I made has to do

with the amount of concern here that we intend to invade Iran.

[Kelly Rupert]

8. An understandable concern, I'd think n/t

[cutlassmama]

9. Uh, we need to stay out of "wars", leave other countries alone

and deal with our energy issues over here. Why should innocent people die because big wigs want to drive SUV's and other gas guzzlers and big oil companies want to make record profits?

If we can't find alternatives then we deserve to walk.

[Imagevision]

10. In 9/2004 the US. delivered 500+ bunker busting bombs to Israel, it's just the

timing now, will Cheney decide to wait for the correct time to coincide with 2008 election?

[Kelly Rupert]

11. If he wants to see the Republican party go down in flames, yeah n/t