US Plans June attack on Iran

[BCShe]

snip - rest at link above

"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."

[BCShe]

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"At the outset of Bush's second term, Vice President Dick
Cheney dropped a bombshell. He hinted, in no uncertain
terms, that Iran was "right at the top of the list" of the rogue
enemies of America, and that Israel would, so to speak,
"be doing the bombing for us", without US military
involvement and without us putting pressure on them "to do
it": 


"One of the concerns people have is that Israel might do it
without being asked... Given the fact that Iran has a stated
policy that their objective is the destruction of Israel, the
Israelis might well decide to act first, and let the rest of the
world worry about cleaning up the diplomatic mess
afterwards,"  (quoted from an MSNBC Interview Jan 2005)


Israel is a Rottweiler on a leash: The US wants to "set
Israel loose" to attack Iran. Commenting the Vice
President's assertion, former National Security adviser
Zbigniew Brzezinski in an interview on PBS, confirmed with
some apprehension, yes: Cheney wants Prime Ariel
Sharon to act on America's behalf and "do it" for us:


"Iran I think is more ambiguous. And there the issue is
certainly not tyranny; it's nuclear weapons. And the vice
president today in a kind of a strange parallel statement to
this declaration of freedom hinted that the Israelis may do it
and in fact used language which sounds like a justification
or even an encouragement for the Israelis to do it."


The foregoing statements are misleading. The US is not
"encouraging Israel". What we are dealing with is a joint
US-Israeli military operation to bomb Iran, which has been
in the active planning stage for more than a year. The
Neocons in the Defense Department, under Douglas Feith,
have been working assiduously with their Israeli military
and intelligence counterparts, carefully identifying targets
inside Iran ( Seymour Hersh,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/HER501A.html )

Under this working arrangement, Israel will not act
unilaterally, without a green light from Washington. In other
words, Israel will not implement an attack without the
participation of the US."

[Hugh, Tombstone]

what a laff.....

[Lin]

The photographs that Dahr Jamail showed were heartbreaking.

[Henry]

You might remember a new conference where Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld responded to a question was asked about the “Plan to Attack Iraq”.  

Rumsfeld looked at the person asking the question.  He squinted.  Then screwed his neck sideways and said, “You have no idea how much pleasure it gives me to know that you have no idea what the Plan is.”

If we know about a plan to attack Iran, you can bet, it is a political maneuver for international consumption.  You can bet your Net Worth that any plan to attack Iran is a closely held secrete.  My advice, is to worry about the Israelis.

[????]

Why would a disgraced ex UN employee know what in the heck is going on at the White House?

[BCShe]

I'm sure what Rummie was referring to at
that time was that the US was planning to
go ahead with death and destruction in
Iraq, the rest of the world's opinions and
facts be damned. It was true, nobody
really foresaw that they'd give the middle
finger salute to the whole world and make
up a bunch of lies to justify bombing the
snot out of the place.

Since we're now hearing about Iran, my
guess is that the attack is already in
progress in some way  - lies are now
being fabricated, fake news stories
assembled...all that remains to be seen
is the actual death and destruction.

Ya, they'll probably get the pibull to do the
attack and then slap Israel on the wrist,
claiming "they shouldn't have gone ahead
without approval, but heck, Iran was a
terrible regime, it needed to go, so no real
harm done, just a bit premature."