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Old 01-30-2008, 22:43 PM   #500 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by lwarmonger View Post
I don't even think regime change would help. We would have to install a government with permanent puppet status or destroy a significant portion of the Iranian people in order to prevent them from the pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Well, I certainly don't see THAT as a given.

There are any number of ways this could break that ends in no Iranian nukes, and no Americans storming Tehran.
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