Easy. With a Russian built "Sunburn" Missile, aka carrier killers (google it) and it could even be tipped with a warhead from some sympathetic parties in Pakistan.

Iran wouldn't even have to send it far thanks to the war machine putting multiple US carrier groups in the Strait of Hormuz. Easy pickings for a well placed Iranian Sunburn or two.

Iran could probably work out a deal with elements from the Pakistani government to acquire a nuclear warhead to tip a sunburn with. One successful shot would do immense damage to the US Navy and could massively disrupt the flow of oil since we have parked three carrier groups in the straight and all the oil would have to go through a narrow, probably ultra-violent and chaotic (we're talking the post-nuking of thousands of US sailors), and potentially irradiated nuclear shipwreck zone.

If it happens that there is some sort of nuclear ambush (most likely in retaliation for the US and Israel nuking Iran) and the US scrambles to try and get the troops out of Baghdad/Iraq, expect the narrow and vulnerable road that our forces (and the contractors) take back to Kuwait to not be friendly during the estimated 10+ month TOTAL evacuation window that has been recently made public since there was never a "plan B". Or maybe the troops will decide to forsake the lifeline and go North through the Kurd regions and into Turkey, like others have done in the past? Or maybe the troops will be off to fight in a poisoned and irradiated Iran? If they take the road to Kuwait in the above situation it will be like Black Hawk Down + The Fall of Saigon x 1,000, and then who will the war machine blame and what action will it take?

http://www.oss.net/extra/news/?id=2679

Do you think that if Hezbollah had access to a nuke it wouldn't use it?

Pakistan has over 50 warheads and the only thing stopping that country from having the "Islamic Bomb" is a perilous military dictatorship. That area is much more dangerous and threatening than Iran to our "national secutiry" but Pakistan is being "smart" and doing something key that NK has done, Iran to a lesser extent, and Iraq did to no extent. That is, make yourself a legitimate threat to American agression. So the US gives Pakistan money and supports an oppressive dictator because he plays ball (inciting blowback) instead of trying to really help them move forward. Modus operandi of the war machine.

Funny that we claim that Iran cannot have nukes when Israel has a not-so-secret arsenal. Just ask Mordechai Vanunu. And to claim that Israel pulls all the strings regarding US foreign policy is a little far fetched. AIPAC is powerful, probably too powerful, but is also not entirely Jewish. According to Chomsky, "There are times when the US has gone out of its way to humiliate Israel, with no reaction from the lobby." An example he presents is the US blocking plans for Israel's Lebanon war, well planned in advanced. If Israel is REALLY calling all of the shots, then what stopped it from executing its war plans?

Ghouliani's campaign (all the way down to how he can even call himself a "Conservative" or a "Republican") should be an indicator that abortion is really a non-issue, but it makes for some emotional political theater. Abortion is only to be used as a tool to swoon the useful idiots on the religious right. From their debate answers, I am willing to bet that most of the Republican candidates wouldn't even know how to start the process of overturning Roe v. Wade even if they were elected.

The neoliberal political agenda of the elites that control the narrow American political spectrum dictated long ago that abortion is ok. It is a shame that the people Brownback was attempting to score cheap points think that abortion is still a real issue.

The only issues that matter are the imperial doctrine of "preventive war" and middle east foreign policy. With H. Con. Res. 21 passing 411 to 2, it appears that the message from Congress to the warmongers regarding Iran is "Full Steam Ahead" and for the people not to expect the war drums to stop anytime soon, no matter what party controls Congress or sits on the imperial throne.