How likely do you think it is that there will be a war with Iran within the next year or two?
95861
It is a possibility but the consequence would probably be third world war. I hope that it never happens.
133364
Please clarify.  I really don't think you mean Iran is going to invade Iran.
353978
I am not expecting too much from Iran. \nThey might not make it to the next round.
348487
At this point, it looks like Iran will have to strike first.  Americans don't have the fortitude to start another war.
109426
Not going to happen. Europe and the US going to war with Iran is a possibility.
408433
Prepare yourself for the unthinkable, war againsty Iran may be a necessity.\n\nThe UNIMAGINABLE but ultimately inescapable truth is that we are going to have to get ready for war with Iran.\n\nTehran threatended the US with 'harm and pain' for hauling them before the UN Security Council over its nuclear program. The rapidly intensifying crisis is like a train on a collision course.\n\nWhile we were chasing phantom nukes in Mesopotamia, next door, Iran was busy building real ones.\n\nThe unavoidable reality is that we now need urgently to steel ourselves to the ugly probability that diplomacy will not now suffice, one way or another, unconsciounable acts of war may now be unavoidable.\n\nThose who say war is unthinkable are right. Those who say the US should not send young boys to die in the Middle East far from home are right. Those who say war will foster more violence in the Middle East are right.\n\nMilitary strikes, even limited, targeted and accurate ones, will have devastating consequences for the region and for the world.\n\nAll the argument against a strike are fearfully powerful. But multiplied together, squared, and then cubed, the weight of these arguments do not come close to matching the case for us to stop, by whatever means necessary, Iran from becoming a nuclear power.\n\nIf Iran gets safely and unmolested to nuclear status, it will be a threshold moment in the history of the world, up there with the Bolshevik Revolution and the coming of Hitler.\n\nIran has stated that they will 'wipe Israel off the face of the map." They've stated that the 'holocaust was fake.' And the kind of society we live in and cherish in the West will change beyond recognition if Iran becomes nuclear. We balk now at intrusive government measures to tap our phones or other intrusions into our civil liberties. Imagine how much more our freedoms will be curtailed if our government's fear we are just one telephone call or e-mail, one plane journey or truckload away from another Hiroshima.
299349
I'm sure the USA would never be so stupid as to get into a war with Iran. \n\nDoes anyone really think we could withstand a war against Iran when China and Russia will back Iran? I'm not sure if N.Korea would get into it but for sure it would be WWIII.
292799
The next major one will probably be Iran.  There will be plenty of little ones before then though.
408209
No because Bush won't be happy until he has a war with Iran.
63008
Well I think that drafts get less likely the more mechanized war gets, however I do think that a war with Iran is coming soon and it will require a significant level of troops. Yet contratctors do everything for our military other than the actual fighting so prehaps one day contractors will bid for the role. So my guess is six years or bust.
87620
The odds are that a coalition will end up attacking Iran.  They can do alot to "placate" the world, but every day we wait they are getting closer to destabilizing the entire region.  Those who think the military cannot handle another engagement, bullpuckey.  We can call up ALL reserve and guard troops, we can start conscription, and we would WIN!  I hope like hell this does not happen, but America will not be bullied, or allow one country, JUST like Iraq, to threaten the WORLD's (not Cheney's or Bush's) oil supply.  If it was disrupted for any length of time, with a regional war, or by the theocracy in Iran(backed up with Nukes), the WORLD economy would go into instant depression.  \n\nThen who would we blame???  People forget that the entire WORLD needs peace and free access to resources, that way we all can prosper!
335511
I think that we will eventually get into a war with them, if some bleeding heart liberal gets elected, I don't think we will do anything to stop them.  \n\nHeres what I want to happen, We need to either set up a military overthrow, and set up a true democracy there, or we need to go in there, and systematically destroy every facility that is even remotely assosciated with neuclear anything, and then assasinate a bunch of people in the government.\nHopefully, this is what bush will do, 1. Kill welfare, 2. with all that money, fund a full scale invasion of Iran.  3. If neccesary, draft...
402755
I doubt if a WW III would happen, however if the US attacks Iran it can anticipate the following things. \nWe will start losing oil tankers in the gulf,  The war in Iraq will boil over into something many times worse than it is now, terrorits acts from groups such as Hezbollah and covert Iranian operations will happen with great frequency, and maybe in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.\nThe price of oil will become astronomical and tens of thousands will be no longer employed as the airlines, hotels and spin off industries go into bankruptcy.  Oil will go from 100 to 300 dollars a barrel.\n\nAnd the sad thing is there in no need for the US to do this.
193918
It has begun and will eventually expand and yes America is the reason. \n\nNot the ordinary people, but the acts of those treasonous fucks in power with their 200G salaries and we don't give a fuck attitudes.\n\nI believe an attack on Iran will be the catalyst for the expansion of conflict.
513922
It won't be a war ... Iran is like twice almost three times as big as Iraq. But that is not the reason we will or won't go to war with Iran. The people of Iran are far more sophisticated about the modern world than Iraq was .. the people of Iran know far to well that a nuclear option with the west is an option that is one that they can not win. The nuclear option can not work for them .. the Israelis have the bomb ... India has the bomb .. Pakistan has the bomb ... nobody wants another bomb in the 'hood ! Israel will not let them have a bomb ... no question ... they just won't sit still for it ... they have taken them out before ... and the US will just let them do it ... It's a tough roll of the dice .. it's a hot piece of real estate in the world ... but I bet that's the way it plays out. Russia and China want the oil ... but I don't think they want to play the nuclear gambit ... yet ! Iran's gov't doesn't want to back down... that shows weakness ... but the people of Iran don't back the gov't. ... more people in Iran oppose the gov't. in place ... so we sit and wait and see if they can vote them out .. or if the military takes over the state !
131581
There's lots of saber rattling right now, but I think the people in power would be stupid to try and invade Iran - the Islamic view of the Western nations isn't so great as it is (especially now), and any attack against Iran would really be adding fuel to the fire.
304636
Not in the near future. It could happen some day though.