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Is it me, but does this war on terrorism seem a wicked cycle that will never end until we reach Armageddon itself. It seems nearly every day we have a new enemy to our "devine rights" and we are asked to disrespect and degrade the people of that contry to bring them over to the side of "freedom and equality". Today the new Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stated "we cannot be relaxed about Iran," and declined to rule out a U.S. attack. Will the new attacks and new wars ever stop or will it just continue forever as we find new countries to attack?
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One day you will look behind you and you will see we three, and on that day, you will repent, and we will send you to whatever god you wish.

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SCOTT RITTER: ATTACK OF IRAN IN JUNE

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, United for Peace of Pierce County, and the Heroico Batallon de San Patricio and the BRICK student organization at South Puget Sound Community College.
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[Danny Baldwin]

I wish I had more time to respond, and I really don't like leaving this statement by itself, but: air power is the only way we can ensure a future that is promising.
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I am still waiting for that educated response Danny, I am in the mood for a political debate.
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One day you will look behind you and you will see we three, and on that day, you will repent, and we will send you to whatever god you wish.

-The Boondock Saints

[Danny Baldwin]

Alright, well, here are my thoughts in a nutshell:

Here we have a president who does not know what he believes, a president who is trying to satisfy everyone when he should realize that he, in fact, won the election, fair and square.

Just days away from the second anniversary of the Iraqi War, we have accomplished quite a bit. Removing Sadaam and many other al-Qaeda terrorists, of course, top our accomplisments, there.

Still, we haven't done nearly enough. Most of this lies within the fact that George Bush is trying to conduct the war in his own kind of politically correct way. This is a war against terrorism, not a way to instantly bring peace to the Iraqi people.

As our troops die and beheading videos are released on the internet, we are sticking with the status-quo. Rumsfeld brilliantly executed the take-over of Iraq, but what are we doing now. We need to be sending a message to the terrorists.

That message is air-power. Right now, in my eyes, we are losing. We are losing grips in the Middle East. This is certainly debatable, but I see the most parallels between Iraq and World War II. Although liberal countries will allow themselves to underplay the thread of terrorism, this is a world war. The problem lies everywhere, but it is mainly in the Middle East.

We need to be leveling the cities in Iraq where the terrorists are. This will not only kill many of the breed of sub-humans, but send a message to others. It worked in World War II.

Is this a never-ending war? Not if conducted in the correct way. Reaching the correct way may be a challenge, yes, but I believe we can do it. If we gnaw away at the top of the most prominent terrorist organizations, an eventual collapse will most likely ensue.

There are still many battles we need to fight. Iraq is just the beginning, yes, but by no means would I call this war never-ending. I suppose the most important idea for the current administration to confront is: How are we supposed to install peace in the Middle East when we have yet to garner the ability to do so?

That said, I'm very happy that Kerry isn't in the White House, right now.
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[xAndyx]

Okay, luckily for you Danny my boy my computer crashed and could not reply until now, but please don't let this fool you, I will not let your comments go without a fight. Personally I don?t know how, as a living human being, you could dare say we should go bomb Iraqi cities to kill the "sub-humans". Who are you to be calling any man woman or child subhuman? If you were born an Iraqi would you consider yourself subhuman, no. Do you think it is your right to classify a specific group of as deserving of death?

Secondly, how can you think that leveling cities will break the will of people? Hello, you are American, did you not see and feel the sense of patriotism after 9/11. By bombing cities we are only provoking them more and heightening the problem. I don?t care how many terrorists you kill you will never, ever, end terrorism. The thought of a terror free environment is as much of an illusion and the utopian socialism of Marx.

I end with a simple statement, I hope you are happy sleeping in your nice warm bed tonight and feel important as people like you run our country in the ground and kill innocent civilians because they, like you, would rather see another holocaust then peace.
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One day you will look behind you and you will see we three, and on that day, you will repent, and we will send you to whatever god you wish.

-The Boondock Saints

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