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I’m starting this 3 hours before show-time so everyone has a chance to rearrange their schedule. (for instance, I will be taking my afternoon nap at 10:30am :rofl: )

On Sunday, October 23 at 4:30 pm and at 10:00 pm

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, ( :woohoo: WILL! ) 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


Democracy Now! interview with Scott Ritter on Friday
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/21/144258


from Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1560258527/002-6814585-0184832?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance
Book Description
Scott Ritter is the straight-talking former marine 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. 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 WMD. 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.


BuzzFlash.com's Review (excerpt)
http://www.buzzflash.com/premiums/05/10/pre05137.html
Unlike members of the Bush administration, Ritter actually had military experience and a history of inspecting for WMDs in Iraq. He was one of the senior UN weapons inspectors in the '90s, was a Marine, and an adviser to General Schwarzkopf in the first Gulf War. Hey, those are some credentials compared to Vietnam evader Bush and 5-time draft deferred Dick Cheney, not to mention draft dodger Karl Rove.
But the more knowledgeable you personally are about something the Bush Administration is creating lies about, the greater the need for Karl Rove to discredit you.
In this book, "Iraq Confidential," it's payback time.