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WAR ON
IRAQ
WHAT
TEAM BUSH DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
"If you
pass this book on to someone, you have my thanks."
co-author, William Rivers Pitt
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Armageddon: (probably Hebrew:
“Hill of Megiddo”), in the New Testament, place where the
kings of the Earth under demonic leadership will wage war on
the forces of God at the end of world history. Armageddon is
mentioned in the Bible only once, in Revelations, or The
Revelation to John (16:16). The Palestinian city of Megiddo
was probably used as a symbol for such a battle because of
its strategic importance in Palestinian history. Because it
controlled a pass that cut through the Mount Carmel ridge
from the coastal Plain of Sharon into Esdraelon, Megiddo
commanded the road leading from Egypt and the coastal plain
of Palestine into Galilee, Syria, and Mesopotamia. Megiddo
was the scene of many battles, and Revelations seems to
imply that the “hill” on which the city fortress stood, or
the “mountain” heights behind it, had become a symbol of the
final battlefield where God's heavenly armies will defeat
the demon-led forces of evil. Other biblical references
suggest Jerusalem as the site of this battle.
Copyright © 1994-2002
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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PITT:
Brent
Scowcroft recently described it as
Armageddon.
RITTER: It could
get that way. There's a real potential for that. We'll be
racing two factors: time and casualties. If we go into Iraq,
we're going to have to win quickly. We aren't going to have
the latitude for a long, drawn-out campaign. If the Iraqis
can delay our action for any amount of time - a month, two,
if Saddam can hang on - the Arab world will explode in a way
we've never seen, a way that will make 9/11 look like a
kid's game.
"That's
where
Armageddon
comes in. No one today can
ever envision giving terrorists a nuclear weapon; it would
be very difficult for them to acquire one. But if either the United States
or Israel were to use a nuke against Iraq, I guarantee
within ten years the United States would be struck by a
terrorist nuclear bomb.
And then all bets will be off. If the U.S.
or Israel used nukes against Iraq, Pakistan and Iran would
turn over nuclear capability to terrorists. I guarantee
this. There's Armageddon. This war with Iraq is the dumbest
thing I've ever heard of."
PITT: You think oil doesn't have very much to do
with this.
RITTER: No. Oil is everywhere in that part
of the world. We can get all the oil we want from Iraq. The
Iraqi Oil Minister has made it clear that, once the
sanctions are lifted, Iraq will do whatever they can to
ensure the strategic energy requirements of the United
States are met. It's not that Iraq is denying us access to
oil.
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"One
power with a president who can't think properly, ... wants
to plant the world into holocaust"
Former South African President
Nelson Mandela, on President George Bush's stance on Iraq,
January 30th, 2003.
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THE
APOLOGY
Please!
Read this book! Don't be suicidally ignorant!
‘INSTANT
BOOK’ PUTS KIBOSH ON BUSH ADMIN’S WAR OF CONVENIENCE
In an
"instant book" entitled War On Iraq author William Rivers Pitt talks to former Marine
and U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter (a self-described
conservative Republican) and debunks the key arguments for war with
Iraq. These are: that Iraq has a viable stockpile of weapons of mass
destruction and will soon have nuclear capabilities, that Saddam
Hussein is an ally of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, and that any new
Iraqi regime would be friendlier to the West than Hussein's.
War On
Iraq argues
that, unlike the televised in-and-out Persian Gulf War, the current
conflict will cause heavy casualties on both sides, the
destabilization of the Middle East, and a terrible backlash of
terrorist attacks on the United States. Scott Ritter argues that a
war on Iraq will give rise "to exactly the kind of Islam vs. the West
al Qaeda sought when it attacked the World Trade Center a year ago."
The book
offers a non-partisan analysis of the current situation, including a
brief history, and conducts a pointed interview with former U.N.
weapons inspector Scott Ritter to dismantle the myths about Iraq’s
present weapons program and to uncover the neo-conservative forces
behind the White House’s fixation on Iraq.
War on
Iraq argues
that the threatened conflict will be playing into the hand of Osama
bin Laden (who would like to see Saddam Hussein deposed as much as
the Bush administration) and that any attack at this moment in
history would be both unprovoked and illegal. It then lays down the
framework for a reasonable, informed debate. The book closes with a
stark forecast for American troops if a ground war ensues and urges
the nation’s leaders to seek a diplomatic solution before it is too
late.
• Weapons of
mass destruction unlikely
• No tie
between Al Qaeda and Hussein
• The
problems with regime change
• Possible
devastating
consequences of
going to war
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War on Iraq consists of a small
introduction detailing the recent history of Iraq and
Western intervention in the country and then a 50-page
interview with ex-weapons inspector Scott Ritter (carried
out by William Rivers Pitt). It is a testament to such a
small (79 pages) book that after reading it one, in some
sense, feels that one has read a full and detailed account
of the issues and, perhaps more importantly, a considered
refutation of the excuses, exaggerations, misunderstandings
and lies that make up far to much of the media froth helping
to push us all into a war that Ritter, for one, thinks could
be hugely dangerous. Ritter knows more about the recent
history of Iraq than most anyone else having for seven years
been part of the UN weapons inspectorate team that was
charged with finding and destroying weapons of mass
destruction inside Saddam's Iraq. This team was kicked out
of Iraq when it became clear the US were indeed using the UN
teams to gather intelligence.
Ritter makes it perfectly clear that his
position concerning Iraq is not ideological--he is a
card-carrying Republican after all and an ex-marine which
immediately suggests he can not really be described as a
liberal pacifist! He simply suggests that the excuses being
given for the drive to war have not and can not be
corroborated. This is an explosive little book and those who
oppose any and all wars or those who support them would do
well to see if they can respond to Ritter's challenges.
--Mark Thwaite
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With so many politicians and elected
officials in blind lockstep with the USA's apparent desire
to attack Iraq, it's time to think outside of the
box.
How resourceful would we be if we had the
ability to see the future and it didn't look like we thought
it would?
If you wish to contemplate something and
share it with others, in order to initiate more resourceful
thinking, you may ask:
If you knew
that attacking Iraq would somehow ultimately lead to the
destruction of the USA, what would you do?
What would
you do instead of attacking?
Spread the question!
(Very special thanks to Michael
Horn, a very special Human Being, with very
special insight.)
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"If you pass this book on to
someone, you have my thanks." William Rivers Pitt, co-author of "War
on Iraq".
I can recognise heroic patriotism when I see
it.
I am taking Mr Pitt at his word and I hope that
he will allow survival instinct and common sense to triumph over
our anachronistic
copyright legislation, because I
sincerely believe that this small book can save the world. Having
said that, I do not take the technically unlawful copying and
publication here of this ebook lightly and neither should you, the
reader. If I thought that scanning this book would in any way
jeopardise the legitimate earnings of the authors or publishers, I
never would have done it. Now, you, the reader, have a moral
obligation to buy this small book and I trust that you will at your
earliest opportunity, and I trust that you WILL indeed
"pass this book on to
someone". I also note that Major
Ritter, at the time of this writing, is $56,000 out of pocket for his
effort at spreading this vital truth - which can save YOUR life, and
those of your loved-ones - and his investor is also still owed
$30,000. If, unlike us, you have some money, why don't you invest it
in paying off these debts?
Yes, I can recognise heroic patriotism when I
see it, and all the more for it's rarity these terrible days, because
so many of these noble mothers' sons made the supreme sacrifice for
ineffably sacred abstractions like freedom, liberty, justice and
peace. Our best and brightest were butchered in the trenches, the
jungles and the deserts, in the terrible bloodbaths which
characterised the 20th Century and all but the first 9 months of this
one. This most calculated and egregious disgenics has left what
passes for our western civilization morally emasculated.
The optical character recognition and laborious
typographic correction of this 78 page book was a small labor of love
for me. The writing and publication of the book, War on Iraq, was obviously
a much bigger labor of love for Major Ritter and Mr. Pitt, who
clearly love their country and have done something noble to try to
preserve it and the sacred ideas it was founded on.
The war on Iraq is not about
oil. This is a deliberate distraction
from the bizarre truth. The war on Iraq is about Armageddon - the "Final Battle", the "End of Time" ...the end of
the world and the "Rapture" - an insanely delusional murder/suicide
fantasy by a religious fringe who - due to their ancient, powerful
and now recently banished ties to primordial god/overlords beyond the
intellectual grasp of all but the most open-minded and well informed
generalists - have slowly acquired a covert power unrivalled in the
long and bloody history of planet Earth.
Only the cold hard facts will dispel the lies
which have been shouted for millennia.
This small book can start to do that if we let
it.
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Remember, If you read this book here, you have
a moral obligation to recompense the publishers, and if we don't
start exercising our moral obligations on this poor planet, most of
us are going to die - probably very horribly and very soon. It's that
simple.
"If you pass this book on to someone, you
have my thanks." William Rivers Pitt, co-author of "War on Iraq".
 December 12th, 2002 SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
We'll use nuclear
arms, US warns
"...the strategy...breaks with 50
years of American counter-proliferation efforts by
authorising pre-emptive strikes..."
January 9th, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald
UN report
predicts Iraq catastrophe
"UN planners paint a dire picture
of Iraq after extensive bombing and ground fighting. The
large casualty estimate is predicated on this scenario,
which would involve far greater loss of life than the narrow
bombing campaign of the 1991 Gulf War."
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
February 10th
(&12th)
At stake in Iraq: the
world as we know it
" If it goes badly, American
power and influence will wane and the unipolar moment will
have passed."
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Sydney Morning Herald
The CIA had evidence Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction six months
before the 2003 US-led invasion but was ignored by a White House intent on
ousting Saddam Hussein, a former senior CIA official said, according to CBS.
Tyler Drumheller, who headed CIA covert operations in Europe during the run-up
to the Iraq war, said intelligence opposing administration claims of a WMD
threat came from a top Iraqi official who provided the US spy agency with other
credible information.
The source "told us that there were no active weapons of mass destruction
programs," Drumheller said in a CBS interview to be aired on Sunday on the US
network's 60 Minutes.
"The (White House) group that was dealing with preparation for the Iraq war came
back and said they were no longer interested," he was quoted as saying in
interview excerpts released by CBS on Friday.
"We said: 'Well, what about the intel?' And they said: 'Well, this isn't about
intel anymore. This is about regime change'," added Drumheller, whose CIA
operation was assigned the task of debriefing the Iraqi official.
He was the latest former US official to accuse the White House of setting an
early course toward war in Iraq and ignoring intelligence that conflicted with
its aim.
CBS said the CIA's intelligence source was former Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji
Sabri and that former CIA Director George Tenet delivered the information
personally to US President George W Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other
top White House officials in September 2002. They rebuffed the CIA three days
later.
"The policy was set. The war in Iraq was
coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy," the
former CIA agent told CBS.
US allegations that Saddam had WMD and posed a threat to international security
was a main justification for the March 2003 invasion.
A 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, to which the CIA was a major contributor,
concluded that prewar Iraq had an active nuclear program and a huge stockpile of
unconventional weapons.
No such weapons have been found, however, and US assertions that they existed
are now regarded as a hugely damaging intelligence failure.
But Drumheller, co-author of a forthcoming book entitled On the Brink: How the
White House Has Compromised American Intelligence, rejects the notion of an
intelligence failure.
© 2006 Reuters
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