Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Scott Ritter Sees War in Iran

TPM Cafe reports that Scott Ritter spoke in Sante Fe, New Mexico on Sunday night about the Iran crisis and sees war as inevitable based on a conversation he had with John Bolton's speechwriter.

Robert Dreyfuss reports the same thing:
Scott Ritter issued another warning that Iran is next, adding that he'd talked to the speechwriter for John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the UN, who said Bolton's speech about attacking Iran is already written.

As Dreyfuss points out, an attack on Iran might seem foolish by standards that reasonable people use — "but the neocons see an attack on Iran as the next step in what Michael Ledeen calls the 'war to remake the world.'"

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I have a hard time believing that this administration would be foolish enough to start a war in Iran. Radical as they are, they must have learned something from Iraq.

Then again, your Dreyfuss quote may be right on the money.