Scott Ritter interview now on Thom Hartmann Show

[benburch]

Streamed at http://www.WhiteRoseSociety.org/Hartmann.html

[cthrumatrix]

1. people should tune in.... kick

[benburch]

2. I repeat this stream 24/7.

And you can purchase archive access quite cheaply.

[Bozita]

3. Thanks for the heads-up ... and thanks for WhiteRose

[benburch]

4. You are MOST welcome.

White Rose is now what I do for a living, and I am most grateful for patrons such as yourself!

[Nomadic]

5. Check out this article on this very subject

Maybe someone should start a new thread on this subject.

I can hear the drums of war already.

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2295/2/

[Roland99]

6. Wow...maybe they're trying to keep Iran from competing w/the Unocal line?

Iranian gas pipeline deal
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-02/20/content_2596746.htm


Esp. with US companies set to profit from their involvement in the trans-Afghan pipeline set to start construction in 2006:

http://www.afghanistan.org/news_detail.asp?17599

[Roland99]

7. Double wow! I knew something was up in the Iraqi elections...

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.


When I saw that 48% total for the Iraqi Shia my first thought was, no frickin' way!! The Kurds aren't that numerous and the Sunni didn't vote in large numbers.

[Roland99]

8. That page is apparently being slammed...is there another link

covering that Ritter story?

[Roland99]

11. Got it back up...here are a couple of key excerpts

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 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 cannot succeed, and that at that time the Administration will act."

[Roland99]

9. dp...oops

[ArkDem]

10. Good ole OnExhibition....................

[kaitykaity]

12. It really sucks to have to pay for a Hartmann show.

I'm really sorry you have to do that now.
I can't afford to do that.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

14. I'm in the same boat.........................

I can't afford what he wants for access either. I'm really gonna miss the archived shows.

[benburch]

15. If you (you, Kaity, anybody) cannot afford the $1 per month, just ask!

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[kaitykaity]

17. Okay, okay.

Thank you.

I just wanted to listen to the one show.

kk

[annabanana]

13. Aw Jeez... Will Pitt has a MUCH better way to deal with Iran..

Will Pitt FYI: You Want To Win A War Against Iran?
http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/2/21/43834/9243

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. He was on AAR

this afternoon too.