{"id":1849,"date":"2007-02-26T20:41:24","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T00:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2007-02-26T20:41:24","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T00:41:24","slug":"us-generals-will-quit-if-bush-orders-iran-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1849","title":{"rendered":"US generals ?will quit? if Bush orders Iran attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Michael Smith and Sarah Baxter, Times Online, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/iraq\/article1434540.ece\">25 February 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SOME of America?s most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against Iran, according to highly placed defence and intelligence sources.<\/p>\n<p>Tension in the Gulf region has raised fears that an attack on Iran is becoming increasingly likely before President George Bush leaves office. <em>The Sunday Times<\/em> has learnt that up to five generals and admirals are willing to resign rather than approve what they consider would be a reckless attack.<\/p>\n<p>?There are four or five generals and admirals we know of who would resign if Bush ordered an attack on Iran,? a source with close ties to British intelligence said. ?There is simply no stomach for it in the Pentagon, and a lot of people question whether such an attack would be effective or even possible.? <\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/iraq\/article1434540.ece\">Read the article<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cursor.org\">hat tip<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Smith and Sarah Baxter, Times Online, 25 February 2007 SOME of America?s most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against Iran, according to highly placed defence and intelligence sources. Tension &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1849\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-tP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}