Pretext for a war?

Over the last week or so Iran has taken some Brittish soldiers prisioner (note I don't use the term hostage or kidnaped as these are incorrect) because as Iran claims they strayed into Iranian waters, this is very possible as the water ways are a complex border region and is disputed and the Iranian's also might be wrong and taken the soldiers when they where in Iraqi waters. Who-ever is right or wrong in this dispute Iran really should give the soldiers back, but sadly due to the actions of our govenment and the American govenment we have allready taken people from Iran in to custody and opperate torture dungons in far off parts of the world.

Because of this we really don't have the moral high ground in this issue but nor does Iran and two wrongs don't make a right, I also fear this might be the pretext for a war with Iran as we know form the neo-conseritive agenda in the United States they wish to reshape the whole middile east by force. What people have to remmeber is that Iran is not Iraq. Iraq when attacked would for the most part just sit back and absorb air strikes and from time to time, they would fire a few missiles at warplanes guarding the no fly zones, Iraq was dissarmed over many years and it's army was broken.

Iran on the other hand is battle hardend and far more well equiped than Iraq ever was, Iran is a contry of 70million people, has an air force, extensive air defence network and a well equiped army. Attacking Iran would cost millions of lives and would require a draft of many thousands of people in the UK and the US, many of whom would die in the war, such a war would destabilize the whole region not only Iran and might even draw in China and Russia whom both have intrests in Iran.

You who would support such a war must ask yourself one question, if called would you fight or would you be happy to send your children to die in such a war? This is why we should take the action of force off the table when it comes to Iran, we should use what little of our moral and diplomatic might we have left to persuade Iran to back down and release the soldiers.