Has the intelligence community in the U.S. changed since the war in Iraq began? First, don’t forget that the Pentagon Inspector General issued his report this week debunking 50 percent of the intelligence that the White House used to justify the war in Iraq showing that it was flawed. Now with the U.S. set to assert evidence against Iran in Baghdad today by U.S. officials giving evidence supporting administration's claims of Iran's meddling and deadly activities in Iraq.

With all the intelligence agencies that the United States has such as the CIA, NSA, NRO, NGIA, DIA, NCTC and the NCIX all being lead by the Director of National Intelligence who happens to be Ambassador John D. Negroponte former ambassador to Iraq. Are we going to be able to put together better than a 50 percent flawed intelligence report about Iran? We should all hope that they get it right this time.

Iran is theocratic republic which means that it is a theocracy, since the elected president and legislature are constitutionally subject to the supervision of two offices reserved for Shiah clerics: the Supreme Leader of Iran and the Guardian Council, which even decide who may run for office. Iran is also considered a "semi-democracy", like China or Russia. However, Iranian authorities themselves consider Iran a Theo-democracy or religious democracy.

The Supreme Leader is considered as the ultimate head of state and government, whereas the President is granted as the prime executor of policy. However, in the recent years Mohammad Khatami has called Iranian political system as an alternative democratic model so called religious democracy.

Why is this important you may ask? Because, they have the opposite type of democracy that we have. In the United States we have what we claim a separation of church and state and what Iran has is a religious ran state.

Intelligence has got to be right on everything this time. The United States can not and should not be manipulated in to believing that it is to our best interests that we enter in to a conflict in which there can be such repercussions such as another nuclear cold war. Congress and the Senate need to be more critical of every word spoken by every Administration leader and spokesperson. Stability in the Middle East can’t be achieved by overzealous heads of state with a proven tract record of manipulations of facts to achieve oil resources in the region. It is time the U.S. enters into a new era of talking with nations we consider threats to our nations security. The military option didn’t work in the ongoing conflict we are faced with today. Over 3300 troops dead and over 22,000 more wounded and the only thing we have for sure to show for it is no more Saddam. But what we have now is a country trying to pull itself together after we made a mess out of it.

Iran has reached out to us many times over the last year to talk about issues important to them and to us. Why don’t we reach out to them and try to solve these issues that could come to be life or death issues with us sooner than later. I think the government owes it to the all of us Americans to do what is best for the U.S. and not for a few political figures in Washington. It will be on the shoulders of the Congress and the Senate to change how America is seen around the world.