Scott Ritter: US "to bomb Iran in June", plus Iraqi election fraud
The report:
...which should make for an interesting read. Jamie at Blood and Treasure suggests the early closure of polling may have been enough to allow some "shaving" of the UIA's vote.
Ritter was voice of sanity before the Iraq war, calmly repeating a very simple message: the weapons' inspection programme had worked; Iraq had no capability to manufacture new weapons of mass destruction; there were now no WMDs in Iraq.
He was dead right about that. We'll see how the June prediction comes on.
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...
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.
...which should make for an interesting read. Jamie at Blood and Treasure suggests the early closure of polling may have been enough to allow some "shaving" of the UIA's vote.
Ritter was voice of sanity before the Iraq war, calmly repeating a very simple message: the weapons' inspection programme had worked; Iraq had no capability to manufacture new weapons of mass destruction; there were now no WMDs in Iraq.
He was dead right about that. We'll see how the June prediction comes on.
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