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NEWS: Scott Ritter says US attack on Iran planned for June       
Written by Mark Jensen     
 
Saturday, 19 February 2005

On Friday evening in Olympia, former UNSCOM weapons inspector Scott Ritter appeared with journalist Dahr Jamail.  --  Ritter made two shocking claims: George W. Bush has "signed off" on plans to bomb Iran in June 2005, and the U.S. manipulated the results of the Jan. 30 elections in Iraq....
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SCOTT RITTER SAYS U.S. PLANS JUNE ATTACK ON IRAN, ‘COOKED’ JAN. 30 IRAQI ELECTION RESULTS
By Mark Jensen

United for Peace of Pierce County (WA)
February 19, 2005

Scott Ritter, appearing with journalist Dahr Jamail yesterday in Washington State, dropped two shocking bombshells in a talk delivered to a packed house in Olympia’s Capitol Theater. The ex-Marine turned UNSCOM weapons inspector said that George W. Bush has "signed off" on plans to bomb Iran in June 2005, and claimed the U.S. manipulated the results of the recent Jan. 30 elections in Iraq.

Olympians like to call the Capitol Theater "historic," but it's doubtful whether the eighty-year-old edifice has ever been the scene of more portentous revelations.

The principal theme of Scott Ritter's talk was Americans’ duty to protect the U.S. Constitution by taking action to bring an end to the illegal war in Iraq. But in passing, the former UNSCOM weapons inspector stunned his listeners with two pronouncements. Ritter said plans for a June attack on Iran have been submitted to President George W. Bush, and that the president has approved them. He also asserted that knowledgeable sources say U.S. officials "cooked" the results of the Jan. 30 elections in Iraq.

On Iran, Ritter said that President George W. Bush has received and signed off on orders for an aerial attack on Iran planned for June 2005. Its purported goal is the destruction of Iran’s alleged program to develop nuclear weapons, but Ritter said neoconservatives in the administration also expected that the attack would set in motion a chain of events leading to regime change in the oil-rich nation of 70 million -- a possibility Ritter regards with the greatest skepticism.

The former Marine also said that the Jan. 30 elections, which George W. Bush has called "a turning point in the history of Iraq, a milestone in the advance of freedom," were not so free after all. Ritter said that U.S. authorities in Iraq had manipulated the results in order to reduce the percentage of the vote received by the United Iraqi Alliance from 56% to 48%.

Asked by UFPPC's Ted Nation about this shocker, Ritter said an official involved in the manipulation was the source, and that this would soon be reported by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist in a major metropolitan magazine -- an obvious allusion to New Yorker reporter Seymour M. Hersh.

On Jan. 17, the New Yorker posted an article by Hersh entitled The Coming Wars (New Yorker, January 24-31, 2005). In it, the well-known investigative journalist claimed that for the Bush administration, "The next strategic target [is] Iran." Hersh also reported that "The Administration has been conducting secret reconnaissance missions inside Iran at least since last summer." According to Hersh, "Defense Department civilians, under the leadership of Douglas Feith, have been working with Israeli planners and consultants to develop and refine potential nuclear, chemical-weapons, and missile targets inside Iran. . . . Strategists at the headquarters of the U.S. Central Command, in Tampa, Florida, have been asked to revise the military’s war plan, providing for a maximum ground and air invasion of Iran. . . . The hawks in the Administration believe that it will soon become clear that the Europeans’ negotiated approach [to Iran] cannot succeed, and that at that time the Administration will act."

Scott Ritter said that although the peace movement failed to stop the war in Iraq, it had a chance to stop the expansion of the war to other nations like Iran and Syria. He held up the specter of a day when the Iraq war might be remembered as a relatively minor event that preceded an even greater conflagration.

Scott Ritter's talk was the culmination of a long evening devoted to discussion of Iraq and U.S. foreign policy. Before Ritter spoke, Dahr Jamail narrated a slide show on Iraq focusing on Fallujah. He showed more than a hundred vivid photographs taken in Iraq, mostly by himself. Many of them showed the horrific slaughter of civilians.

Dahr Jamail argued that U.S. mainstream media sources are complicit in the war and help sustain support for it by deliberately downplaying the truth about the devastation and death it is causing.

Jamail was, until recently, one of the few unembedded journalists in Iraq and one of the only independent ones. His reports have gained a substantial following and are available online at dahrjamailiraq.com.

Friday evening's event in Olympia was sponsored by South Puget Sound Community College's Student Activities Board, Veterans for Peace, 100 Thousand and Counting, Olympia Movement for Justice & Peace, and United for Peace of Pierce County.

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NOTE: Dahr Jamail will make three more appearances in the Puget Sound area this weekend: (1) SATURDAY, FEB. 19, 7:00 p.m., at the Kirkland Congregational Church, 106 5th Avenue, Kirkland WA. Admission $5 -- Sponsored by Evergreen Peace & Justice; (2) SUNDAY, FEB. 20, 1:00 p.m. at the Vashon Land Trust. Vashon Islanders for Peace will be hosting Dahr Jamail and Bert Sacks on the subject of Exit Strategies from Iraq; (3) SUNDAY, FEB. 20, 7:30 p.m. at UW Kane Hall, Room 120. Hosted by the Interfaith Network Of Concern for the people of Iraq (INOC), the University of Washington -- Department of Communication, the Iraqi Community Center of Seattle (ICCS), and the United Nations Association, Seattle.

NOTE TO MEDIA: This piece has generated considerable public and media interest, receiving 23,633 hits as of 11:00 p.m., Feb. 21, and causing the UFPPC web site to crash several times on Monday. -- Dennis Miller of Veterans for Peace suggests reporters seeking to reach Scott Ritter contact Dan Leahy of Evergreen College at leahyd@evergreen.edu

ADDENDUM: Scott Ritter spoke on KIRO 710 radio this evening, Feb. 21; I am told by Bob Rudolph of UFPPC and Veterans of Peace that he repeated the substance of what he said in Olympia on Feb. 18 .

--Mark Jensen is a member of United for Peace of Pierce County.
 
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Re: UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Says US Attack On Iran Planned For June
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2005, 06:26:54 PM »
I dont think i saw this so ill ask, what news source did this come from?
 

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Re: UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Says US Attack On Iran Planned For June
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2005, 06:27:22 PM »
This is an extremely reliable source.  This is the same man, a former US marine and UN Weapons Inspector, who revealed to the world 6 months in advance of the Iraq invasion, that Iraq posessed no weapons of mass destruction but that the US would invade them anyway.
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Re: UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Says US Attack On Iran Planned For June
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2005, 06:37:24 PM »
http://www.ufppc.org/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=44


there's a web address so you can check the source
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Re: UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Says US Attack On Iran Planned For June
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2005, 08:02:49 PM »
extremely reliable, ok, so if we dont go to war, u delete your acount, and never come back to dubcc, deal?
 

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Re: UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Says US Attack On Iran Planned For June
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2005, 10:21:58 PM »
"This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. Having said that, all options are on the table," Bush said.

Does this qualify for Bushism of the week?

But in my personal opinion, I wouldn't garantee the U.S. attacking Iran.  Public opinion would be against it on both sides, but then again, Iran seems like it is actually more of a threat than Iraq ever was.

 

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Re: UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Says US Attack On Iran Planned For June
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2005, 10:39:08 PM »
"This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. Having said that, all options are on the table," Bush said.

Does this qualify for Bushism of the week?

LOL... sure does..
 

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Re: UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Says US Attack On Iran Planned For June
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2005, 10:41:43 PM »
but then again, Iran seems like it is actually more of a threat than Iraq ever was.

Nice strategy, isn't it? If you carry out an unjustified attack on a country that was no threat and get away with it, then attacking a country that "SEEMS" like more of a threat would be quite "ordinary" to these folks.
 

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Re: UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Says US Attack On Iran Planned For June
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2005, 06:09:48 AM »
It's horrifying that they are getting through with this.. after that fiasko in Iraq.
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Re: UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Says US Attack On Iran Planned For June
« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2005, 07:17:14 AM »
"This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. Having said that, all options are on the table," Bush said.

Does this qualify for Bushism of the week?


i don't see nothing wrong with that statement.... he simply states that we aren't currently getting ready to attack iran, but it's not out of the question in the future

i guess some people have a harder time at reading comprehension
 

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Re: UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Says US Attack On Iran Planned For June
« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2005, 10:41:11 AM »
"This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. Having said that, all options are on the table," Bush said.

Does this qualify for Bushism of the week?


bush said the same thing about north korea too, but like n korea  we're not going to attack iran unless attacked


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