FoxNews.com has a story on how the Bush administration has decided not to release a report on Iranian efforts to destabilize Iraq.
A plan by the Bush administration to release detailed and possibly damning specific evidence linking the Iranian government to efforts to destabilize Iraq have been put on hold, U.S. officials told FOX News.
Officials had said a "dossier" against Iran compiled by the U.S. likely would be made public at a press conference this week in Baghdad, and that the evidence would contain specifics including shipping documents, serial numbers, maps and other evidence which officials say would irrefutably link Iran to weapons shipments to Iraq.
Now, U.S. military officials say the decision to go public with the findings has been put on hold for several reasons, including concerns over the reaction from Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — as well as inevitable follow-up questions that would be raised over what the U.S. should do about it.
Jules Crittenden thinks the main reason for not releasing the report is because of the behavior of the Democrats.
The report goes on to detail exactly how much the Democratic Congress does not what to deal seriously with Iran. I suspect the concerns are not so much with how Ahmadinejad will react or what the U.S. will do about it, but rather how Congress will react, and how it will try to prevent the U.S. from doing anything about it.
The grownups can’t talk about ugly truths in front of the kids, because the kids aren’t ready to handle it.
Dan at Riehl World View thinks this is more a case of saber-rattling to get the Iranians back in line.
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