{"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’t contain much beyond what you’ve probably already seen in the news — in fact, it contains many\u00a0accusations that are similar to those the Bush Administration made about Iraq before the invasion, though without the “mushroom cloud” 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’t mentioned in the report is that\u00a0Iran knows\u00a0several things about America that Saddam Hussein didn’t know.\u00a0 Here are some:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>America’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’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 — including that Bush’s\u00a0invasion of\u00a0Iraq eliminated Iran’s most significant enemy\u00a0(Iraq) and\u00a0revealed the\u00a0impotence of\u00a0its second most significant\u00a0opponent (the U.S.)\u00a0— Bush’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’t contain much beyond what you’ve probably already seen in the news — in fact, it contains many\u00a0accusations that are similar to those the Bush Administration made about Iraq before the invasion, though without the “mushroom cloud” imagery.\u00a0 Nevertheless, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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}]}}