IS IRAN THE NEXT TARGET IN THE ADMINISTRATION’S SIGHTS?

On Feb. 18, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter told an Olympia
audience that the Bush administration has plans to attack Iran in June
of 2005. “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.”

There are other indications: In late March three warships with 6,300
sailors and Marines were deployed to the Persian Gulf. Bush has
repeatedly said publicly that “all options are on the table” in regards
to Iran. Commentator Charles Goyette says, “That the US might attack
Iran in June is one of our worst-kept secrets.”

The Bush administration is saying the same things about Iran that they
said about Iraq: it has a secret weapons program, ties to Al Qaeda, and
represents a threat to the US. But last month an official US
Presidential Commission stated that virtually every report on Iraq from
the intelligence community was “dead wrong.” These dead wrong reports
were used to justify a war that has resulted in the deaths of over 1560
Americans and 100,000 Iraqis. Americans have spent over $200 billion on
this war and there is no end in sight.

No More Excuses for War!

Now is the time to act.  Call your congressperson and ask them to
vocally oppose an attack on Iran, and to support the Woolsey resolution
calling for the troops to be brought home from Iraq.

Congressman Brian Baird – (360) 352-9768 or (202) 225-3536
Congressman Adam Smith – (888) 764-8409 or (202) 225-8901
Senator Patty Murray – (206) 553-5545 or (202) 224-2621
Senator Maria Cantwell – (888) 648-7328 or (202) 224-3441

For more information on the possibility of an Iran war see:
www.commondreams.org/views05/0411-21.htm
www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050124fa_fact
www.ufppc.org/content/view/2295/

The Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace
www.omjp.org