The following article, Ritter: Iran is target, details Scott Ritter’s ideas about what the Bush administration has in store for Iran. Ritter loves to fill his pockets with money while bashing the powers that be. He’s done it with books and countless personal appearances. I believe his credibility to be almost less than zero by this point. In fact, I’m not nearly as certain that the Bush administration is going to launch any military strikes against Iran as Ritter himself is.
But if the question is whether or not we should attack Iran, well, that’s a no-brainer. We need to light up Tehran like the 4th of July!
Saturday, February 17
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - The Bush administration is determined to go to war with Iran, is making the necessary preparations to do so, and will not be stopped by an impotent Congress.These were the conclusions of former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, speaking Thursday night on the topic “Target Iran” at the First United Methodist Church in Williamstown. Ritter first rose to prominence disputing the administration’s claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before the start of the war with that country.
“Ladies and gentlemen, we’re going to war with Iran,” he said to the audience of about 120. “It’s going to happen. There’s nothing we can do to stop it.”Democrats scorned
Ritter held out for scorn the behavior of the new Democratic congressional majority, which is seeking non-binding resolutions condemning the recent troop surge while continuing to vote to fund the war: “We’re seeing how this Congress behaves. It’s not going to stop the war.”
Many believe that the Administration would not attack Iran because the Iraq war is going so badly. “Those are people who allow themselves to differentiate between Iraq and Iran and view them as separate policies,” Ritter said. “They are not separate policies.”
Instead, both nations are seen as part of a strategy of “regional transformation” bent on installing regimes compliant to the will and vision of the U.S., he said.
In 2002 the Bush Administration incorporated the vision of the neoconservative Project for a New American Century into the National Security Strategy of the United States. The 2006 National Security Strategy takes the same approach, Ritter said.
“You realize that we haven’t learned anything from Iraq. It embraces preemptive wars of aggression as sound policy, it refuses to recognize any failure in Iraq,” he said of the 2006 statement on strategy. “It says we were right to go to Iraq. Then it identifies Iran no fewer than 16 times as representing the number one threat to the national security of the United States.”
Administration’s rationaleThe policy calls Iran the foremost state sponsor of terrorism in the world. Just as terror provided the rationale for Congressional approval of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, so the authorization to combat terrorism provides the rationale to attack Iran.
“We have a president who is intent on completing the mission he believes he has been given by the American people, a mission he believes that Congress has approved,” Ritter said.
Though there is repression in Iran, people do speak with some freedom, carry cell phones, watch CNN, and surf the Internet.
“It’s not what we think it is. It’s not what we’re being led to believe,” he said of Iran, which he recently visited to work on a magazine article. “I came out of there saying it’s insanity to talk about going to war against these people. They do not represent anything near a threat to the security of the United States of America.”
The Bush administration has been putting into place the pieces necessary to launch an air attack on Iran. Two aircraft carrier battle groups have been moved into the region, and two more will be there by April; the Pentagon has negotiated basing rights in Romania and Bulgaria so that B-1 and B-2 bombers can operate out of airfields there.
Anti-Iranian frenzy“We are deploying fuel and munitions as we speak,” he said. “The Department of State, and the Pentagon, together with the vice president have engaged in repeated diplomacy with Iran’s neighbors � particularly Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar. They have whipped these nations up into an anti-Iranian frenzy.”
The recent attempt to link advanced improvised explosive devices used against American troops in Iraq to “the highest levels of the Iranian government” without any proof is evidence of the Administration trying to portray Iran as a serious threat.
“But who is confronting the president on this? Where are our politicians? Engaged in non-binding resolutions. Continuing to fund the war,” he said. “Congress has not debated the viability of the intelligence out there that says Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program. We need a congressional debate on this.”
Members of both parties are engaging in harsh rhetoric, including Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, who has called Iran “the number-one threat to American, Israeli, and international security in the world today,” according to Ritter.
“She’ll go to war with Iran that quick,” he said, snapping his fingers. “So will every one of our elected representatives, because they don’t have the courage to confront the president on this issue.” he said.
Fear factor“They know the ultimate reality: that we the people of the United States of America are wallowing in ignorance about the world that we live in. We have succumbed to the fear factor so often that we are preprogrammed to accept at face value anything negative put out there about Iran,” he said. “We don’t want to accept that there might be an alternative reality.”
What a jackass like Ritter fails to tell his audience is that attacking Iran isn’t a matter of convenience. War is never a matter of doing it because we want to — war’s for America are about doing it because we have a vested interest in doing so. In other words, because we have to.
Iran has been asking for a kick to the teeth since I ever since I first learned to talk (a long time). Iran’s time may then finally be at hand. The Islamic government of Iran is directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of foreign nationals through direct and indirect means, many hundreds, perhaps thousands of which are American casualties. Just look at the mess in Iraq and remind yourself that if Iran is mucking around, that’s half the problem! We have very clear words coming from its Muslim leaders as to what they have in store for Israel, Europe and the United States. We have very good understanding of their nuclear capacity and that Iran intends to proliferate that technology to other Islamic states and terrorists. If they deny the later, it’s laughable. Lies only fool so many people, so many times.
Scott Ritter has a right to his Free Speech. Fine. On the flip side, I have a right to call him what he is: a seditionist nobody with an axe to grind.
But I still hope he’s right.
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I don’t know why it’s a no-brainer. Here’s some plausible consequences
(1) Pakistan explodes and passes a nuke to Al Qaeda.
(2) Shiites turn on US and we get a mass killing in the Green Zone and some other spots. That includes our ambassador, and any members of congress who happen to be there.
(3)Saudi Arabia falls to Al Qaeda.
On the other hand, we could rely on deterrance. It worked for the USSR. And we could stop immigration of Muslims.
1) You think Iran, North Korea and Syria don’t already have plans to see nukes put into the hands of terrorist groups in order to extort Europe and the United States and elsewhere?
2) What’s stopped Muslims of either sect from murdering Americans up to this point? It certainly hasn’t been fear, coddling or bribery. The deaths continue. I don’t think the life of an ambassador is any more precious than those of our boys and girls in uniform.
3) Saudi Arabia doesn’t need to fall to Al Qaeda when half the Princes already fund them. Wahhabi Saudi Arabia is an enemy of the United States, not the mirage of a friend they like to manifest for the American people. A handful of reasonable Saudis, most with ties to the Bush family, do not suddenly keep the madrassas from preaching hatred for Americans and Jews in all corners of the world and the majority of them funded by Saudi oil money.
Deterrance didn’t stop 9-11, didn’t save the USSR in Afghanistan and it hasn’t ended the jihadist attacks within Russia.
However, all this said, I totally agree that we can and should stop the immigration of Muslims. I’ve been saying that for years now and it has fallen onto deaf ears — until very lately.
Do you know what xenophobia means?
I take extreme exception to your ranting, because it is not based upon anything other then your own personal bias, misinterpretation and extreme fundamentalism. You’re just as bad as those you claim to hate.
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Perhaps you don’t recall that Ritter was right. As were many other people who revealed that the lies that put this country into Iraq were fabrications. But perhaps that doesn’t matter to you.
Which makes you hateful. Which makes you stupid. Which makes you extreme. Which makes you a poor excuse for a human being. I wouldn’t even bother wiping my shoes off your dead body.
“We need to light up Tehran like the 4th of July!”
Okay pussy. Post you name and address here. I’d like to light your ass up. Calling for the death of millions of people makes you deserving of death.
People like you are disgusting beyond words, your vile, filth, excrement upon the human race because you make such stupid, insane and illogical “deductions” based upon paranoia, fear and xenophobic attitudes towards everything you’re too stupid to understand.
I’m not defending Iran, or Ritter, I’m offending YOU because you’re a vile scum of a human piece of shit spouting off garbage.
Do you even have ANY IDEA what kind of vile, evil spouting and genocide you’re promoting? Do you even have a fucking clue? I think not. I think you’re a pussy behind a keyboard. I think you’ve never tasted the horrors of war. I think you’re a wannabe no-nothing asswipe that can barely reach the floor with both feet.
You’re unfounded hatred of everything you don’t understand is revealed in everything you write. You’re a sick, disgusting piece of human garbage. You actually think that ignorance is a virtue. You believe that your xenophobic attitudes are preferable to all else.
It’s ilk like you that have fucked this country up beyond belief. I suspect you’ve got your head shoved up Bush’s ass so deep that you could inspect his tonsils. I hope you enjoy it there.
But I’m not through. I could rip to shreds every asinine argument you post here. I’ll start with this one:
“What a jackass like Ritter fails to tell his audience is that attacking Iran isn’t a matter of convenience. War is never a matter of doing it because we want to — war’s for America are about doing it because we have a vested interest in doing so. In other words, because we have to.”
And exactly what is that “vested interest” you vile piece of shit? Let’s here it…. I already know what it is and it has NOTHING to do with the “security of the United States” or her allies. It does have everything to do with greed, profits and oil. Or are you too fucking stupid to realize this?
“Iran has been asking for a kick to the teeth since I ever since I first learned to talk (a long time).”
See, I was right, you know everything about everything, you were even BORN OMNISCIENT. Fuck you asswipe. You know nothing.
“Iran’s time may then finally be at hand. The Islamic government of Iran is directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of foreign nationals through direct and indirect means, many hundreds, perhaps thousands of which are American casualties. Just look at the mess in Iraq and remind yourself that if Iran is mucking around, that’s half the problem!”
Jesus fucking Christ are you stupid. Are you aware of the wars caused by the United States? Are you aware that this now numbers in the hundreds? And that the deaths involved through direct and indirect actions is now in the millions? You thin this country is so great - at what? Making war?
“We have very clear words coming from its Muslim leaders as to what they have in store for Israel, Europe and the United States. We have very good understanding of their nuclear capacity and that Iran intends to proliferate that technology to other Islamic states and terrorists. If they deny the later, it’s laughable. Lies only fool so many people, so many times.”
I don’t give a shit about Israel, if it treated it’s neighbors right (look it up asswipe) they’d have a lot less problems. And guess what? Israel has nothing to do with the sovereign security of the United States.
Nuclear weapon EXPERTS who have years of experience on your omniscient capabilities and training have resoundly declared that Iran does NOT have nuclear capabilities and is not likely to for a very long time. They could simply BUY a nuclear weapon anytime they wanted off the black market. If they wanted nuclear blackmail, this would be far, far easier.
But the reality is, it is the USA and Israel that want nuclear blackmail. But you’re too stupid to realize that this is what has been going on for decades despite your omniscience.
“Scott Ritter has a right to his Free Speech. Fine. On the flip side, I have a right to call him what he is: a seditionist nobody with an axe to grind.”
So telling the truth is okay with you then? The truth as you see it and the truth as Ritter sees it and the truth as I see it? The real axe to grind is the vile spouting that you post here. And it’s meaningless. Every bit of it. Nobody reads your stupid blog because it’s full of hate, ignorance and evil rantings based upon fear, paranoia and stupidity.
Personally, I don’t give a shit about vile scum like you. Or Iran, Israel or any other country. The battle ground is here - and you are the enemy, that’s clear as fucking day. Why? Because you preach, teach and practice ignorance. You poison minds with paranoia and fear. You call for mass bloodshed for millions based upon your own insecurities and lack of understanding. You think that such killing is your right, you believe you are fully justified.
Where is your evidence for such attitudes? It doesn’t exist, making you full of shit and a vile piece of human garbage. This is why killing you makes much more sense to the rest of us. You’re an offense to the human race, no better the the Hitler genocide campaign against Jews.
So put up or shut up you fucking pussy. If you’re not in Iraq or Iran fighting for what you believe in, then shut the fuck up.
Unlike you, I have fought for my country, I am fighting for my country and I will continue to fight for my country, but I find that I’m having to fight the likes of people like you who are too stupid and ignorant to draw their next breath. Well, let me help you out there, ’cause I’m going to sit on your chest until you don’t breathe anymore.
Ah, personal attacks, insults, slurs and blue language. You are the poster child troll of the day.
But you had to go and type this death threat:
And then you even close your remarks with another death threat:
Bad moves. Here’s this fellow’s information for the FBI, U.S. military or other interested persons to investigate:
email: iay@aol.com
IP: 69.41.152.15
That IP address originates somewhere near Newport, WA.
Military bases in the state of Washington.
I have emailed the network admins in your area, and I have also contacted the proper authorities to investigate this matter.
Have a nice day.
Threatening someone personally simply because of their political views is neither “intelligent,” nor “American.”