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On Tuesday, October 11, 2005, I was lucky enough to hear one of the most riveting live interviews I've yet heard about why we could never find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, before and after the invasion. This interview was told by Scott Ritter, former U.S. Marine intelligence analyst who turned atomic weapons inspector for the UN. This interview will was THE MOST RIVETTING INTERVIEW I”VE EVER HEARD - PERIOD.
Scott ultimately protested what was going on behind the scene that he quit in protest to make a point. Another inspector was put into place that was highly critical of Scott Ritter but over time, came to the same conclusion that Ritter was consistently speaking out on. Ritter has recently written the book IRAQ CONFIDENTIAL.
If you do one thing, listen to the interview. It will clarify what happened and why the U.S. never found WMDs. If nothing else, learn.
MP3 Click
here to listen to the MP3 audio file of the interview.
(File size: 26.5 MB, File Type: MP3)
Iraq Confidential : The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein
Book Description
Scott Ritter is the straight-talking former marine intelligence analyst officer
who the CIA wants to silence. After the 1991 Gulf War, Ritter helped lead
the UN weapons inspections of Iraq and found himself at the center of a dangerous
game between the Iraqi and US regimes.
As Ritter reveals in this explosive book, Washington was only interested in disarmament as a tool for its own agenda. Operating in a fog of espionage and counter-espionage, Ritter and his team were determined to find out the truth about Iraq’s WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction). The CIA were equally determined to stop them. The truth, as we now know, was that Iraq was playing a deadly game of double-bluff, and actually had no WMDs. But to have revealed this would have derailed America’s drive for regime change.
Iraq Confidential charts the disillusionment of a staunch patriot who came to realize that his own government sought to undermine effective arms control in the Middle East. Ritter shows us a world of deceit and betrayal in which nothing is as it seems. A host of characters from Mossad, MI6 and the CIA pepper this powerful narrative, which contains revelations that will permanently affect the ongoing debates about Iraq.
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Q: Did you hear about Bushes New plan to deal with the oncoming Social security deficient?
A: It's called influenza!
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Last year someone asked Colin Power why he still thought that Iraq had Weapons of Mass destruction.
He said, "That's easy. We still have the receipts!"
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Famous Speech Made By Bush on the Topic of Sovereignty.
MP3
Click here to view Bush's now famous
discussion at a public forum on the topic of Tribal Sovereignty. CLASSIC
(File Size: 485kb, File Type: MP3)
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George
Bush's Report Card
It
All Adds Up To A Sorry Story. I'll keep this hear to see how it has changed
in his second term as there are no excuses that he can say now.
Edited by Jim Hightower and Phillip Frazer , The Hightower Lowdown, August 2004
Federal Deficit under Bush
Administration: $2.3 trillion, through 2011
Federal Surplus when Bush took office: : $5.6 trillion, projected through 10
years, i.e. money in the bank.
2004 Deficit: $450 billion
Current federal debt: $7,298,671,067,464 and counting. Who will pay?
Average tax break for lower
60% of earners under Bush tax plan: $350
Average tax break for top 1% of earners under Bush tax plan: $96,634
Wages
Americans' average income growth from 2000-2002: -5.7%
Americans' average income growth, adjusted for inflation, 2000-2002: -9.2%
(First time since WW II that overall income shrank for two consecutive years)
CEO pay growth in
2003: +27%
Ratio of CEO to worker pay in 2003: 300 to 1
Ratio of CEO to worker pay in 1982: 42 to 1
Jobs
Number of jobs promised to come from Bush tax program: 5.5 million
Number of jobs lost since Bush took office: 1.2 million
Number of jobs created during Clinton administration: 21 million
Unemployment rate today:
5.6%
Unemployment rate when "recovery" began November, 2001: 5.6%
Trade
U.S. Trade deficit in 1999: $271 billion
U.S. Trade deficit in 2003: $549 billion
The War
2001 Defense Budget: $291 billion
2005 Defense Budget: $447 billion
2005 "Classified" Intelligence budget: $40 billion
U.S. KIA: 1000+
U.S. KIA since Bush announced "Mission Accomplished": 800+
U.S. wounded, Iraq & Afghanistan: 12,000+
MORE AT: http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/articles/Aug04_v6_n8/Aug04_v6_n8_1.cfm