Claims of future war escalation.(INSIDER REPORT)

On February 18, Scott Ritter, a former Marine and former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, stunned an audience in Olympia, Washington, with this announcement: President Bush had already reviewed plans for a massive bombardment of Iran, and the attack would likely begin in June of this year.

On March 30, Mr. Ritter provided more details about the alleged bombing plan in an article for the Jewish magazine Tikkun. According to Ritter:

 
   Late last year, in the aftermath of the 2004 Presidential 
   election, I was contacted by someone close to the Bush 
   administration about the situation in Iraq. There was a growing 
   concern inside the Bush administration, this source said, 
   about the direction the occupation was going. The Bush 
   administration was keen on achieving some semblance of 
   stability in Iraq before June 2005, I was told. 
 
      When I asked why that date, the source dropped the 
   bombshell: because that was when the Pentagon was told to 
   be prepared to launch a massive aerial attack against Iran, 
   Iraq's neighbor to the east, in order to destroy the Iranian 
   nuclear program. 
 
      Why June 2005, I asked. "The Israelis are concerned 
   that if the Iranians get their nuclear enrichment program up 
   and running, then there will be no way to stop the Iranians 
   from getting a nuclear weapon. ...