Original Message from: Jeff Norman: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The important thing to know about Scott Ritter is that he was right. Seymour Hersh
U.S. Tour of Duty presents HOW WE GOT INTO IRAQ AND HOW TO GET OUT Featuring in person: SCOTT RITTER Monday, December 5th, 7:30-9:00 PM at Venice United Methodist Church 1020 Victoria Avenue, Venice (1 block north of Venice Blvd. at Lincoln Blvd.) Join Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector and author of Iraq Confidential (Nation Books), and Lila Garrett, host of KPFK's "Connect the Dots," for an incisive discussion on how to extract ourselves from the Iraq quagmire. A book sale and signing will follow the event. Doors open 6:30 PM. Seating is first-come, first-served. Suggested donation: $10 (nobody turned away) For more information call 310.842.8794 or visit www.ustourofduty.org <http://www.ustourofduty.org/> U.S. Tour of Duty, a non-profit project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (www.saveourplanet.org), supports the anti-war advocacy of Iraq veterans, military families, policy analysts, and performers by organizing public forums, developing communication strategies, and producing video content. IRAQ CONFIDENTIAL: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein By Scott Ritter With Foreword by Seymour Hersh Published by Nation Books IRAQ CONFIDENTIAL is a dramatic exposé of intelligence espionage by a staunch U.S. patriot who the CIA wanted to silence. Scott Ritter¹s first-hand account reveals in detail how the CIA manipulated and sabotaged the work of UN departments to achieve the United States¹s hidden foreign policy agenda in the Middle East. Iraq Confidential is an astonishing revelation of the CIA¹s imperial arrogance. After the 1991 Gulf War, Scott Ritter helped lead the UN weapons inspections in Iraq and found himself at the center of a dangerous game between the Iraqi and US regimes. Operating in a fog of espionage and counter-espionage, Ritter and his team were determined to find out the truth about Iraq¹s WMD. The CIA was equally determined to stop them. We now know that Iraq was playing a deadly bluffing game and actually had no WMD. But whoever revealed this truth would have derailed America¹s drive for regime change and made a mockery of our country¹s highest officials. Scott Ritter was the UN's top weapons inspector in Iraq between 1991 and 1998. Before working for the UN he served as an officer in the US Marines and as a ballistic missile adviser to General Schwarzkopf in the first Gulf war. Seymour Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist currently writing for the New Yorker. In his long and distinguished career he has been the first to expose many of the major scandals in US foreign policy, from the May Lai massacre in Vietnam to Abu Ghraib. Lila Garrett is the host of "Connect the Dots," which airs every Monday morning on Pacifica's KPFK in Los Angeles from 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM. She is the former president of Southern California Americans for Democratic Action and the founder and co-chair of Americans Against the War in Iraq, which placed the first ads against the war in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a difference. Find and fund world-changing projects at GlobalGiving. http://us.click.yahoo.com/vlzMKB/PbOLAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
