[Marxism] Scott Ritter - "US attack on Iran planned for June"

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> Scott Ritter - "US attack on Iran planned
> for June" "U.S. Cooked Iraqi 'Election'
> results"
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> 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....
>
> 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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