You do not want to give additional argument to new crazies who say 'Let's go and bomb Iran.
While some in the Republican Party want us to bomb Iran, libertarians see it as another huge potential blunder.
Israel's probable new government, if sufficiently alarmed, could decide to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities even without an American green light.
Some 52 percent of Israelis say the country should bomb Iran's nuclear reactor, while 35 percent are against, the poll found.
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Mr McCain, whose political hero is the warlike Teddy Roosevelt, would certainly be readier to bomb Iran than Mr Obama would.
" At the same time, by 15-62, they disagree that "Israel should bomb Iran to stop them from developing nuclear weapons.
And to me, the greatest danger is that we will have a president that will overreact and we will soon bomb Iran.
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Free of internal criticism, national candidates looked daffy and reflexively aggressive John McCain sang "Bomb, Bomb Iran" and left the party looking that way, too.
Israel can order the Israel Air Force to bomb Iran's nuclear and missile facilities with the aim of denying Iran the ability to attack the Jewish state.
Now that Israel has recently bombed sites in Syria that may well have been secret nuclear facilities, the question arises: is America about to bomb Iran's nuclear sites?
One of his foreign-policy advisers, Norman Podhoretz, urges President George Bush to bomb Iran's nuclear sites as soon as practically possible though Mr Giuliani does not go so far.
The new Israeli government wants to see no such thing, and wants people to believe it will bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, a belief it fosters with background briefings to journalists in the United States and presumably elsewhere.
It may well be true that Mr Bush is disinclined to bomb Iran now that he is a lame duck, but the possible advent of a President Obama might just make Israel more inclined to do so itself.
Prevented by international pressure from getting the technology to build a bomb, Iran seems to have put its programme into cold storage.
They underlined that their intelligence services agreed on how far the Iranians had got with their programme but Mr Netanyahu made it clear his red line was Iran getting enough depleted uranium to be able to build a bomb whereas the president's is Iran actually deciding to build the bomb and getting near to achieving it.
By holding the meeting the day after North Korea tested its bomb and after Iran's announcement that it rejects the US's offer to negotiate about its nuclear program, the administration demonstrated that regardless of what Iran does, Washington's commitment to putting the screws on Israel is not subject to change.
However, the more probable threat to Israel is not that Iran will bomb it.
Mr Santorum, meanwhile, has said he would bomb nuclear facilities in Iran if they did not allow international arms inspections.
That staging ground in turn enabled Iran to bomb Israeli and Jewish targets in Buenos Aires in the early 1990s.
Mr. Biden worked in Munich to minimize any damage done by Mr. Hagel's comments and to emphasize Mr. Obama's position that he will use all means, including possibly military force, to deny Iran the bomb.
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Romney sounds more hawkish on Iran and nuclear weapons, but the fact is, regardless of who wins in November, an American president will face a nervous Israel with a choice: Bomb or accept that Iran has bombs.
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Militants detonated a percussion bomb at a girls school in southeastern Iran and opened fire on an electricity plant before fleeing and hiding in a nearby house in Zahedan, according to a Iranian news agency's report.
He aims to lever North Korea out of the bomb-building business, and to part Iran and others with dubious nuclear ambitions from dangerous bomb-useable technologies.
During that time, Iran has moved within months of the bomb and the US has abandoned its goal of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Israel, in particular, is appalled by the prospect of Iran having the bomb.
North Korea has already developed a bomb or two, and Iran is working hard on one, as are Iraq and Libya.
If you decide it's better to let Iran get its bomb than to risk bombing it, we don't have to tell anybody for a bit.
In 1981, seventy-four people, including Chief Justice Ayatollah Beheshti, were killed in Iran by a bomb attack on the headquarters of the Islamic Republican Party.
The danger implicit in the US and Israeli decisions to plan for the day after Iran gets the bomb is made clear by two recent developments.
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