Scott Ritter In Cleveland Tonight to Discuss Iran

[Algorem]

http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/4404

Scott Ritter , known for defusing the myth that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction before war started, is on a tour to discuss his views on Iran. the Ritter served from 1991 to 1998 as a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq in the United Nations Special Commission and correctly asserted that there was no way that Iraq had any WMD in a book entitled ' Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein'. He is at it again writing a book about the lead up to war in Iran called 'Target Iran: The Truth About the White House's Plans for Regime Change'.

Ritter will be in Cleveland tomorrow (January 24th) at Trinity Cathedral. A donation of $10 ($5 students) is recommended. Trinity Cathedral is located at 2230 Euclid Ave., across from Cleveland State University. Free parking is available in the Trinity Cathedral lot: entrance on Prospect Ave at E. 22nd.



http://www.ustourofduty.org/pages/events.html

Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Trinity Cathedral
2230 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44115
216.776.3630

U.S. Tour of Duty: The Iran Talks
SCOTT RITTER
AMBASSADOR EDWARD PECK

• Suggested donation: $10 General and $5 Students
• A book sale and signing will follow the presentation.
• Co-sponsored by Cleveland Peace Action and Trinity Cathedral.
• For more information call 216.231.4245 or click here.

Friday, January 25, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Private residence
Huntington Woods, MI

U.S. Tour of Duty: An intimate fundraiser
SCOTT RITTER
JEFF COHEN

• Admission: $35 (includes food, wine and beer)
• Co-sponsored by Huntington Woods Peace, Citizenship, and Education Project.
• For more information or to buy advance tickets call 248.548.3779.

Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 2:00 PM
First United Methodist Church of Ferndale
22331 Woodward Avenue
Ferndale, MI 48220
248.545.4467

U.S. Tour of Duty: The Iran Talks
SCOTT RITTER
JEFF COHEN

• Admission: $10
• A book sale and signing will follow the presentation.
• Co-sponsored by The Huntington Woods Peace, Citizenship, and Education Project and Peace Action of Michigan.
• For more information click here.

Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 1:30 PM
IBEW Hall
23 W. 2nd Avenue
Columbus, OH 43201
614.279.4310

U.S. Tour of Duty: The Iran Talks
SCOTT RITTER
JEFF COHEN

• Suggested donation: $10
• A book sale and signing will follow the presentation.
• Co-sponsored by Puffin Foundation, Central Ohioans for Peace, Citizens Grassroots Congress, Central Ohio Green Education Fund, CAIR-Ohio, Democratic Socialists of Central Ohio, Progressive Democrats of America - Ohio and Progressive Peace Coalition.
• For more information call 614.531.4146 or click here.

Saturday, February 23, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Fiesta Resort Conference Center
2100 South Priest Drive
Tempe, AZ 85282
480.967.1441

U.S. Tour of Duty: The Iran Talks
SCOTT RITTER
MIKE MALLOY

• Admission: $14.80
• A book sale and signing will follow the presentation.
• Co-sponsored by KPHX and ECOtality
• For more information call 480.967.1441 or click here.

[Windy]

1. Going to be in Michigan too! I'm going!!! thanks for the post! n/t

[yorkiemommie1]

2. Powerful speaker

I saw him on a panel w/ David Swanson and Ann Wright here in SoCal.

[Angiewnsb]

3. Scott Ritter was also a warmonger - his own words prove it

Scott Ritter was actually a warmonger and you can verify this yourself by reading Ritter's own words. They're all linked to in this series of articles entitled:

"How the Lies of Scott Ritter Reveal the Strategic Goals of the Bizarre Iraq War" which you can (and should) read at http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/ritter.htm

Let me just give you a short excerpt from the articles so you know what you're in for and so you'll see how Ritter should be discredited for all time. (Footnotes & links are provided in the website above):
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" On 9 December 1998, the San Francisco Examiner ran the following story: <1>


Ex-U.N. arms inspector: Bomb Iraq

New York - Former United Nations arms inspector Scott Ritter has signed a contract to write a book in which he spells out his suggestions for dealing with Iraq: Bomb the country and overthrow its leader, Saddam Hussein.

"Nothing less will work, and nothing less is justified," Ritter is quoted as saying in Simon & Schuster's announcement Tuesday of his book, "The Iraq Solution," due out in April.

Ritter's book will discuss Hussein's use of chemical weapons against Kurds and Iranians, and "why he must be stopped" before he uses mass-killing weapons again, the publisher said.

Ritter, an ex-Marine, created a stir Aug. 26 when he quit the United Nations Special Commission that monitors Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. He said then that the panel's efforts were being undermined by vacillating American and U.N. policy-makers.


The Simon and Schuster book announcement was also carried by the Associated Press, London Times, USA Today and Washington Times, and reported by various local news stations. <2>
It caused a stir because Ritter had a powerful media presence. It was brought up by a reporter at the White House press briefing that day. The following exchange took place:



Question: Joe, one more on Iraq. Does the White House have any comment on Scott Ritter's comments, that the only way to settle this is to bomb Iraq?
MR. LOCKHART: No.



http://usembassy-australia.state.gov/hyper/WF981209/epf301.htm

Seven days later the US launched a 3-day missile attack on Iraq."
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Okay, sorry, but I can't help giving you two more excerpts from this series exposing Ritter, copied immediately below:
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"We are living in very strange times. It is the observation of me and others at Emperor’s Clothes that the war in Iraq has been conducted in the oddest manner. The most obvious oddness surrounds this matter of weapons of mass destruction. The US put forward - very aggressively - that it knew Saddam Hussein possessed such weapons. Having made that claim, it equally aggressively refused to come forward with concrete evidence. Having come forward with no concrete evidence, it invaded. Having invaded, it produced nothing to back up its claim.

This all seems calculated to produce fury among Muslims and to provide a wealth of material for an antiwar movement. But why? . . .

Ritter famously resigned from UNSCOM to protest (as he made clear) the failure of the US to use military force against Iraq.

Five months later he changed, without a word of explanation, into a Dove and became the celebrity inspiration for an antiwar movement, speaking nonstop at public meetings and to the media for five years.

Using the media search engine Lexis-Nexis, I have learned that Ritter has been covered thousands of times by the mainstream media. For example, since he became an antiwar guru at the end of 1998, he has been cited on 185 different CNN programs, including 44 full interviews. That constitutes 44 more interviews with CNN than the pro-Yugoslavia antiwar movement received during the 78-day bombing of Serbia. And that's just CNN. Ritter has been quoted or written up 40 different times in the Washington Post since he became a Dove; he was covered or interviewed 27 times on CBS; and so it goes.

The mainstream media’s favorable treatment of the antiwar movement cries out for explanation. At the end of this series of articles I will present my explanation; it is both scary and counter-intuitive but it explains the above and other crucial data.

What sort of other data? Well, for example data about Scott Ritter himself. A careful look at the transformation of Ritter from Hawk to Dove, and his treatment by the media can, I think, help us understand the US foreign policy establishment's strategy in Iraq and regarding the antiwar movement."

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Here's the link to the full expose. Don't be fooled. Buyer Beware.:

'How the Lies of Scott Ritter Reveal the Strategic Goals of the Bizarre Iraq War' and you can (and should) read it here: http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/ritter.htm

Angie
www.WhatNewsShouldBe.org