{"id":3307,"date":"2007-02-24T20:31:28","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T03:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/24\/liberating-iran-enslaving-america\/"},"modified":"2007-02-24T20:31:28","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T03:31:28","slug":"liberating-iran-enslaving-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/24\/liberating-iran-enslaving-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberating Iran, Enslaving America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Grigg has an excellent\u00c2\u00a0new E-Zine, Pro Libertate, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightsourceonline.com\/enews\/\">here.<\/a><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 Will posted a piece of mine in his first issue on the collateral benefits of liberating Iran.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the lead &#8211; full text at his e-zine and at my <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/24\/liberating-iran-enslaving-america\/\">blog,<\/a><\/strong> where comments &amp; carping are always welcome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LIBERATING IRAN, ENSLAVING AMERICA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by James Bovard<\/p>\n<p>The Bush administration is reportedly considering the use of tactical nuclear weapons against suspected Iranian nuclear facilities. Many people have commented on how the U.S. military is already overstretched and cannot afford another major war. But little attention has been focused on how the American political system is also at the breaking point&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0If Bush does bomb Iran, the chain reaction could wreck American democracy. The Bush administration shows no signs of developing either an allergy to power or an addiction to truth. The American republic cannot afford to permit a president to remain above the law and the Constitution indefinitely. Anything that raises the odds of a terror attack reduces the odds of reining in the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Grigg has an excellent\u00c2\u00a0new E-Zine, Pro Libertate, here.\u00c2\u00a0 Will posted a piece of mine in his first issue on the collateral benefits of liberating Iran.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the lead &#8211; full text at his e-zine and at my blog, where comments &amp; carping are always welcome. LIBERATING IRAN, ENSLAVING AMERICA by James Bovard The Bush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}