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icymist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 11:54 PM
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Scott Ritter is on Mike Webb show claiming that US about to attack Iran!
The Iran War is Already in the Planning Stages. Yes, that's the assessment of former Chief UN Weapons Inspector, Scott Ritter who joins us tonight to explain

http://www.kiro710.com/show_details.jsp?iShowId=26019

It's late in the show, but he says that US will conduct short air campaign expecting the Iranians to great "The American Liberators" and then overthrow their own government! Amazing! PNAC indeed!
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 11:55 PM
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1. Eh, not buying this. Military operations have large build ups.
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 11:59 PM
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3. We're already there. Just have the troops march due east.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:08 AM
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14. And you pull them out of Iraq how? And you put what in Iraq?
As stupid as the Bushies are, this is beyond mere idiocy. It simply would not work and the military would tell them that.

I just don't buy this.
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icymist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:14 AM
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17. To each your own. Just reporting what I heard on the radio.
Ritter claims that this administration thinks by a concise bombing campaign they can take out Iran's air defense, the Mullahs, and that the Iranian people will do the rest. Sounds so much like the bullshit of going into Iraq, (the people will throw flowers at the Americans), that I don't doubt that that's the way Bushco is thinking!
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democracyindanger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 01:38 AM
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26. The military told them 200,000 troops would be needed
to secure Iraq. They didn't listen then, so going on history, you can't put any level of idiocy beyond them.
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icymist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:00 AM
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4. Ritter claims that the build up has been going on in Afghanistan
Edited on Wed Jun-22-05 12:06 AM by icymist
Hundreds of planes. He also mentioned that the CIA is already in Iran, using the same people Saddam used to terrorize them from a base in Iraq.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:06 AM
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12. Doubtful, except for the MEK crap
I can believe we're backing those idiots.

Doesn't mean we're going to bomb/invade Iran though.
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recovering democrat Donating Member (365 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:02 AM
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7. SO?
NOTHING this administration does surprises me any more.

I do not put anything past them anymore, anywhere in the world. I have no doubt this MAY be happening. Very, very sad.
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lumpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:33 AM
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22. You know damn well the desire is there
to bomb Iran. If the desire is there, will anything stop Bushco from fulfilling their plans? Common sense didn't stop them from invading Iraq.
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GeekMonkey Donating Member (418 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 09:06 AM
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34. There is nothing common about sense
Sense is one of the more uncommon elements of our society.
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 08:55 AM
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29. So if I claim that the White House has plans to nuke Mexico...
this becomes a credible topic for discussion?
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 11:55 PM
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2. Oh wow
Edited on Tue Jun-21-05 11:59 PM by FreedomAngel82
:scared: Someone on Malloy talked about the special on PBS about the soliders in Iraq and they talked about private armies and mercenaries. Do you think they're going to use them for Iran? Malloy is saying how Bush doesn't want a draft cause then it'll show the people really don't support his war because all people will rise up. Now they can hide recruitment numbers and things like that and control the media and they're building private armies while they're using young Americans as cannon fire and for time etc. This has been going on for twenty years according to Malloy but really going on now. Patriotism is a laugh/joke and the age of golabliziation and fight for a paycheck.
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CrispyQ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 08:44 AM
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28. The missing millions
paying for a secret ops. All to deceive the masses while stealing the world's resources.

I put nothing past these thugs, nothing. They are truly evil. They are greed incarnate. Sometimes my gut ties up just thinking about their lack of humanity.
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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:00 AM
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5. Iran has been in the works
for some time. Bombing and special ops. The excuse will be nuclear weapons.

Israel has been running training flights for it over the last year.

US drones and fighter jets have been overflying the country, hoping to be fired on.

It's supposed to begin in earnest this month actually.
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Zinfandel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:01 AM
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6. A bit behind schedule; they expected Bolton to be firmly in place...
Edited on Wed Jun-22-05 12:01 AM by Zinfandel
in the UN by now, to distort, deflect and intimidate, for the Bush Iran invasion!!
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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:04 AM
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9. Yes, should have been on the 15th
but the Bolton blockade has thrown off the schedule.
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 08:58 AM
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30. They can't invade Iran without Bolton in the UN?
If something so simple was able to put a stop to everything, maybe the "Invasion Gonna Happen in June!!!" crowd should have mentioned it when making their bold prophecies.
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icymist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:03 AM
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8. "They (Bushco) plan to do this with just a few divisions" -Scott Ritter
eom
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icymist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:05 AM
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10. The interview is over. I emailed Mike Webb asking for a transcript.
Hope I get it.
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flyarm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:42 AM
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23. LAST WEEK I READ SOMEWHERE THAT ENGLAND WAS SENDING
40,000 TROOPS TO AFGANISTAN..Wish i still had the article!!
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icymist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 09:04 AM
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32. Here's the reply I got from Mike:
I stream the "next day's audio each day, so around 3am, we'll just start recycling the show. Click on the microphone icon on the front page and it will play the 4 hour show repeatedly all day long. By the way, I consider Ritter a great friend who has always been available to us whenever I call him. He is a true patriot.

Thanks,

Mike
http://www.mikewebb.org/audio.htm
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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:06 AM
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11. Yet another
major miscalculation
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:10 AM
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15. Yeah, and Iraq would be "days, maybe weeks...certainly not months"
and Iraq oil profits would pay for all of it, and we don't do nation-building, and we went to war with Iraq because we were attacked, and what other bullshit are they going to try to shove down our throats now???
Will the rest of the country wake the fuck UP????? Before it's totally too late and we have no country left????
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:11 AM
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16. What divisions? We don't *have* any spare divisions
I really don't see where Ritter is getting this stuff.

Nor do I see why he should inherently be considered some sort of expert with super inside information. He is not an insider.
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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:19 AM
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19. It doesn't matter what YOU think of this
What matters is what BUSH thinks of it.

And all indications are that Iran is next.

Dumb as it sounds.

Iraq didn't sound too bright either, but he went ahead with it just the same, and the media and the country trooped along.
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:07 AM
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13. Ritter was totally correct on Iraq and I bet he knows what is
happening with Iran as well.

He's my President - or at least I wish he was.
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Maestro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:26 AM
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20. I doubted Ritter the first time in all honesty.
Edited on Wed Jun-22-05 12:27 AM by Maestro
Not that I believed *, but I thought he was one extreme, over-the-top in his assessments. I won't play down what he says any more. If he states that an Iran war is in the planning stages, I am very, very, very concerned. It would be collosal mistake. We don't have the military for three fronts!
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:46 AM
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24. "We don't have the military for three fronts!" And even if we did,
it would be wrong.

Actually, it's at least four fronts if you consider the secret war against peasants in Colombia.
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Maestro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 08:35 AM
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27. True.
I didn't mean for having a war on three fronts as the only reason it would be wrong.
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ConsAreLiars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:18 AM
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18. Mikes show repeats on his stream every 4 hours until the next one.
Edited on Wed Jun-22-05 12:19 AM by ConsAreLiars
http://stream.mikewebb.org:8000/listen.pls

I missed it, but anyone will be able to hear it repeated at 1:00AM 5:00AM 9:00AM i:00PM (Pacific Time), etc. until tomorrow's show begins.

(edit out stray characters)
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:32 AM
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21. Are there archives?
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ConsAreLiars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 01:36 AM
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25. No archives I know of.
Maybe someone with the skill and webspace will capture a re-run before it is gone. I hope.
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jzodda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 08:59 AM
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31. Please
Do not listen or buy into anything that sleazeball is pushing...Everything ritter says is backed up by whatever he is currently doing to try to make money off...

Who knows what expatriot Iranian group is giving his the $$ this time around...

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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 09:08 AM
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35. PUHLEEEEZE! Ritter has been RIGHT all along!
Read Will Pitts book he did with Ritter. "War On Iraq" and you will see that Ritter has been SPOT ON with his predictions.
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 09:05 AM
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33. That's why they built 14 Military bases.
Edited on Wed Jun-22-05 09:09 AM by in_cog_ni_to
in Iraq. We now have the staging areas for attacking Iran and Syria. This was planned from day one. We're whipping those ME countries into DEMOCRACIES!
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