Ritter and Hersh - Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story - ON NOW

[Viva_La_Revolution]

For anyone who missed it last weekend...

CSPAN2

On Sunday, October 30 at 10:00 am
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Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein
Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh

Scott Ritter talks about his new book, "Iraq Confidential," in which he argues that the Clinton administration, working through the CIA, thwarted the efforts of UN weapons inspectors in Iraq during the 1990s. Mr. Ritter, an inspector between 1991 and 1998, argues that President Clinton's real interest in Iraq was not the elimination of weapons of mass destruction but rather regime change. Mr. Ritter discusses these and more recent developments in Iraq with New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh, author of "Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib." Both men answered audience questions following their discussion.

Scott Ritter, former chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq, is the author of "Endgame: Solving the Iraq Crisis," "Frontier Justice: Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Bushwhacking of America," and, with William Rivers Pitt, of "War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know." Seymour Hersh, who won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1970 for his coverage of the My Lai Massacre, is the author of "The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House" and "The Dark Side of Camelot."

Publisher: Nation Books 245 West 17th Street, 11th Floor New York, NY 10011

[TheGunslinger]

1. Thanks for the heads-up!

Ritter was on a local call-in show the other night (via telephone). The host is quite the * apologist but I managed to get in and talk a good 5 min. on how Iraq is a no-win scenario for us.

[hiley]

2. thanks

:hi:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. assorted relevant links....

Official ‘Ritter and Hersh on CSPAN2’ thread (from last week)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5141928


posted by hiley
Interview: Seymour Hersch & Scott Ritter (audio)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2186217


posted by IndyOp
Sy Hersh: "We're Fucked." What does Sy know that we don't know?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2179634


welshTerrier2
Scott Ritter & Seymour Hersh - C-Span2 - 4:30 (4:42?) (EDT) today
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2176536

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. Would Clinton's desire for regime change have been from

genuine altruism or to consolidate geopolitical hegemony? I'm obviously not an authority, but I wouldn't dismiss the possibility of the former.

[TheGunslinger]

5. It was probably more from pressure/input by the PNAC remora...

that had attached itself to his administration.

Mind you, some key members of the Clinton White House went to work for the Carlyle Group after they left their post.