skeptical at all? so, don, as i sit on the intelligence committee, so i ve looked at a lot of that evidence, i obviously can t talk about the classified intelligence that the white house is referring to. but i will tell you my reaction. and you use the words, you said they are thinking about, they are planning, guess what? this is a very dangerous region of the world. if you have two if you have a militia next to american troops they think about defense, how they might fight the american troops there, what is being sold as an aggressive posture by iran is two things. number one, it is either the way the militias or other groups have been for a very long time or it is responding to the change in posture that the iranians are making because we ve threatened to send bomber groups, carrier strike groups and 120,000 men there. and let me throw one last fact in this, don, because this is
they think about defense, how they might fight the american troops there, what is being sold as an aggressive posture by iran is two things. number one, it is either the way the militias or other groups have been for a very long time or it is responding to the change in posture that the iranians are making because we ve threatened to send bomber groups, carrier strike groups and 120,000 men there. and let me throw one last fact in this, don, because this is important and it s not classified, i was talking today to one of my colleagues who was actually at the iraqi embassy a couple of years ago, working for one of our security services. at the time there were 50 mortar shells a day landing in or around the embassy. they didn t evacuate the embassy. they didn t do any of the we ve got to take our people out of there that they did today when there are no mortal shells landing in or around the embassy and yet this administration is trying to create the sense that