We've already gone far enough to start a war. That was the point.

(09-19-2012 01:44 PM)bearcat65 Wrote:  

(09-19-2012 01:34 PM)Max Power Wrote:  

(09-19-2012 12:21 PM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  

(09-19-2012 12:17 PM)Max Power Wrote:  Just semantics. We're at war when the shooting starts. Was the Iraq War not a "war" because Congress never declared it? The hundreds of thousands of dead bodies suggest otherwise.

So blowing stuff up doesn't count as war?

War is reciprocal and involves human casualty.

Obama uploaded a virus onto an Iranian computer? OH WHAT A WAR PRESIDENT!

Did you read the quote from the State Departments lawyer? He stated what the United States considers an act of war. That carries more weight than what Max considers an act of war.

Did you read what he said? He said it "potentially triggers the right of national self defense." But they may not exercise that right, and if they don't, there is no war.

Quote:So if Country A obliterates Country B with a nuke, rendering them unable to reciprocate, it wouldn't be an act of war?

War with who? The country doesn't exist. The "war" would be over before it got started.

Again, this is all semantics. When people start dying, wake me up.

It doesn't take much training to drop some transmission towers. It was the MJK most likely. We aren't going to insert Spec Ops for power lines.

(09-19-2012 04:59 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  It doesn't take much training to drop some transmission towers. It was the MJK most likely. We aren't going to insert Spec Ops for power lines.

I call BS on the whole story. If anything happened it is from the Iranians being too damn stupid to being able to secure power lines and they just fell down on their own.