Timetable

With the release of the Downing Street memo, it came out in the open: Bu$hCo planned a war in Iraq from the moment they took the White House. What happened on 9-11 merely served as an excuse to do what was intended from the beginning.

Journalists like Seymour Hersch have been saying Iran is next. The facts of our inadequacy in Iraq are totally irrelevant to Cheney. Iran is going down, and forget everything but the oil.

Scott Ritter sent the following Valentine to the White House last February in a speech in Olympia, WA:

Scott Ritter, appearing with journalist Dahr Jamail yesterday in Washington State, dropped two shocking bombshells in a talk delivered to a packed house in Olympia’s Capitol Theater. The ex-Marine turned UNSCOM weapons inspector said that George W. Bush has "signed off" on plans to bomb Iran in June 2005, and claimed the U.S. manipulated the results of the recent Jan. 30 elections in Iraq.

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The principal theme of Scott Ritter's talk was Americans’ duty to protect the U.S. Constitution by taking action to bring an end to the illegal war in Iraq. But in passing, the former UNSCOM weapons inspector stunned his listeners with two pronouncements. Ritter said plans for a June attack on Iran have been submitted to President George W. Bush, and that the president has approved them. He also asserted that knowledgeable sources say U.S. officials "cooked" the results of the Jan. 30 elections in Iraq.

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.

Now we have evidence that such a mobilization is taking place, explaining the haste in which Bu$hCo seeks to send John Bolton to the United Nations

Bu$hCo behaves an awfully lot like they're working on a timetable.

The question remains: what is the timetable leading towards? In the short run, the planned chaos seems intended to lead to a consolidation of power for this administration. In the somewhat longer term, the chaos seems designed for a re-emergence of a very old power structure in American government.

Is it possible, given what is inevitable over the next century, that some are seeing even further? It is likely that they realize if they can not use energy to establish hegemony now, they never will be able to do so. Given the forces of economics, and human ingenuity, a steep rise in the costs of fossil fuels will certainly motivate people to find non-fossil substitutes for these fuels.

The development of non-fossil fuel sources will be the undoing of many multinational corporations and of the entire power structure struggle in the Middle East.

Another question might be, do the people at the front of the organization have the slightest clue where their agenda is leading them?