{"id":510,"date":"2006-09-10T15:09:45","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T21:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/?p=510"},"modified":"2006-09-10T16:26:42","modified_gmt":"2006-09-10T22:26:42","slug":"house-intelligence-committee-report-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2006\/09\/10\/house-intelligence-committee-report-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"House Intelligence Committee report in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. House Intelligence Committee has issued\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/intelligence.house.gov\/Media\/PDFS\/IranReport082206v2.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/intelligence.house.gov\/Media\/PDFS\/IranReport082206v2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this report<\/a> on the strategic threat from Iran.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t contain much beyond what you&#8217;ve probably already seen in the news &#8212; in fact, it contains many\u00a0accusations that are similar to those the Bush Administration made about Iraq before the invasion, though without the &#8220;mushroom cloud&#8221; imagery.\u00a0 Nevertheless, the report is disturbing for several reasons, perhaps the most important of which is that\u00a0Iran\u00a0actually does have extensive and active\u00a0ties to terrorists, as well as a real nuclear program.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What isn&#8217;t mentioned in the report is that\u00a0Iran knows\u00a0several things about America that Saddam Hussein didn&#8217;t know.\u00a0 Here are some:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>America&#8217;s has utterly\u00a0incompetent political\u00a0leadership<\/li>\n<li>America has virtually no political allies willing to support another military conflict<\/li>\n<li>Bush has neither the financial nor the political resources to support another military conflict<\/li>\n<li>Iran&#8217;s oil and gas\u00a0reserves give it real power that could seriously hurt the U.S. economy in the event of U.S. military action<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In view of these and other\u00a0considerations &#8212; including that Bush&#8217;s\u00a0invasion of\u00a0Iraq eliminated Iran&#8217;s most significant enemy\u00a0(Iraq) and\u00a0revealed the\u00a0impotence of\u00a0its second most significant\u00a0opponent (the U.S.)\u00a0&#8212; Bush&#8217;s decision to invade Iraq (which both he and Cheney continue to rationalize) seems likely to be (if it is not already) one of the worst\u00a0mistakes in U.S. history.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. House Intelligence Committee has issued\u00a0this report on the strategic threat from Iran.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t contain much beyond what you&#8217;ve probably already seen in the news &#8212; in fact, it contains many\u00a0accusations that are similar to those the Bush Administration made about Iraq before the invasion, though without the &#8220;mushroom cloud&#8221; imagery.\u00a0 Nevertheless, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9,42,43],"tags":[69,6439,6472,6473],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-and-afghanistan","category-politics","category-the-middle-east","category-war","tag-iraq","tag-politics","tag-the-middle-east","tag-war","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}