{"id":524,"date":"2008-06-23T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2008-06-22T21:08:50","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T02:08:50","slug":"bush-to-attack-iran-as-an-october-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"Bush to Attack Iran as an October Surprise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the past seven years, would you put it past this administration?<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Sullivan is <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2008\/06\/kristol-obama-i.html#trackback\">on the case<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Could Bush bomb Iran before the next election and create a sense of international crisis that could cause voters to swing back to McCain? From everything we know and Bush and Cheney, the answer, surely, is yes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bill Kristol suggested on Fox New Sunday yesterday that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PuUnFIpSb-4&amp;eurl=http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/06\/22\/kristol-bush-iran\/\">Bush might attack Iran<\/a> if it &#8220;looks like Barack Obama is going to win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John Bolton, also on Fox New yesterday suggests that <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/06\/22\/bolton-arabs-delighted\/\">Israel might decide to strike Iran<\/a> before a President Obama took office.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Israel conducted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/20\/washington\/20iran.html?pagewanted=print\">a massive war games exercise<\/a> that American sources suggest was a test for an attack on Iran&#8217;s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/7439431.stm\">drumbeats of war<\/a> are growing louder.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the past seven years, would you put it past this administration? Andrew Sullivan is on the case: Could Bush bomb Iran before the next election and create a sense of international crisis that could cause voters to swing back to McCain? From everything we know and Bush and Cheney, the answer, surely, is yes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[22,3,167,82,45,367,6,4],"tags":[58,416,417,80,418,148],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-foreign-policy","category-iran","category-israel","category-mccain","category-national-security","category-obama","category-politics","tag-andrew-sullivan","tag-bbc","tag-bill-kristol","tag-fox-news","tag-john-bolton","tag-the-new-york-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-8s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}