{"id":395,"date":"2007-08-22T11:58:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T11:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=395"},"modified":"2007-08-22T11:58:32","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T11:58:32","slug":"prelude-to-an-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Prelude to an Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0%2c8599%2c1654188%2c00.html\">Robert Baer<\/a> at Time Magazine, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2007\/08\/22\/iraq\/index.html\">Glenn Greenwald<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: it&#8217;s either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on the IRGC, maybe within the next six months. And they think that as long as we have bombers and missiles in the air, we will hit Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities. An awe and shock campaign, lite, if you will. But frankly they&#8217;re guessing; after Iraq the White House trusts no one, especially the bureaucracy&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>And what do we do if just the opposite happens <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Robert Baer at Time Magazine, via Glenn Greenwald: Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: it&#8217;s either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on the IRGC, maybe within the next six months. And they think that as long as we have bombers and missiles in the air, we will hit Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities. An awe and shock campaign, lite, if you will. But frankly they&#8217;re guessing; after <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=395\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-6n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}