OK you stated your argument better this time around. I see all of your points as valid. Going into Iran is not the easy thing to do. But Iran CANNOT be allowed to posess nuclear weapons. Iran stating they need nukes for defence is BS. The leader of Iran has stated publicly his desires to rid the world of both Israel and the US... This IS post 9-11... we cannot allow threats to build unoticed anymore. Will there be consequences to attacking Iran? Yeah... probably pretty bad ones. Will those consequences be worse than having Iran equipped with nukes? NOPE.