If Israel attacks Iran, the U.S helped. Israel is going to A) land in Iraq to refuel B) refuel over Iraq. Iraq is not going to allow this, but the U.S will.
The U.S also supplied Israel with the bunker buster bombs.
Same way Iran arms Hezbollah, U.S arms Israel. War by proxy.
Iran is not scared of the U.S. Why? They can fight the U.S inside Iraq. U.S cannot stop thousands of rocket launches at the green zone. They will also be unable to stop the flow of weapons into Iraq from Iran. These weapons will give the insurgency a major boost. Not to mention there will be thousands of Iranian fighters now inside Iraq. They will be highly trained in hit-in-run tactics.
The U.S will then be faced with three choices:
A) Fire at suspected missile plants inside Iran and weapons factories and fight the Iranians inside Iraq. It will be very similar to Israel-Hezbollah, however Iran is massive in size and their stockpiles of weapons is gigantic.
B) U.S will bomb power, water, and bridges inside Iran sending it into total chaos. Iran will retaliate by blocking the flow of oil in the Persian Gulf. Oil prices will go sky-high and the world will panic. All it takes is one suicide ship, one missile, a torpedo, one mine to go off and sink an oil ship.
C) Invade Iran, which would be disaster.
There is a major difference between Iraq and Iran. Iraqis wanted Saddam dead. They put their weapons down and stood there.
Iranians do not want their leaders dead. They hate their leaders like a lot of people hate Bush in the U.S. However, if you attack the U.S or if you attack Iran, the people of those nations will rally together to fight.
Attacking Iran?s nuclear sites will only strengthen the regime. Iranians want nuclear energy. They are not against nuclear energy.
It is important to realize Iran?s military is not made like Saddam?s military. Saddam?s military was an invasion military. Iran?s military is an invasion stopping military. Iran?s money is spent on small arms, and missiles. Iraq spent their money on tanks and aircraft. Iran?s tanks and aircraft pose no threat to anyone. Iran saw what the U.S did inside Iraq and outside. Iraq?s military was in the open for the U.S aircraft to attack. Iran?s military is going to be inside Iran hidden inside cities. The only way to take them out is to either bomb cities with millions of people or invade.
The days of head-to-head military battles are over.