If President Obama goes to war with Iran, would you be open to listening to the case for it?

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66. The best wars never happen. When Seymour Hersh

wrote in 2008 about the potential for war I believed him. I respect you may not have believed his warnings helped keep the US from acting on it's desires for war but I do:

PREPARING THE BATTLEFIELD
The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran.
by Seymour M. Hersh JULY 7, 2008

Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership. The covert activities involve support of the minority Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups and other dissident organizations. They also include gathering intelligence about Iran’s suspected nuclear-weapons program.....


....The most outspoken of those officers is Admiral William Fallon, who until recently was the head of U.S. Central Command, and thus in charge of American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. In March, Fallon resigned under pressure, after giving a series of interviews stating his reservations about an armed attack on Iran. For example, late last year he told the Financial Times that the “real objective” of U.S. policy was to change the Iranians’ behavior, and that “attacking them as a means to get to that spot strikes me as being not the first choice.”...

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Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh#ixzz1kiiLGtWg

Basically it comes down to a matter of opinion as to whether Hersh's actions had any relevance to whether the Bush Administration would have decided to attack or not.

After watching Bush drag us into Iraq in a preemptive war based on lies it would be difficult to judge what Bush and company was actually capable of.