Scott Ritter Part II (Q&A)

This is the Q and A with Scott Ritter, on April 18, 2007 in Indianapolis, with his discussion of the media's "conspiracy" of silence, including its turning a blind eye to deceptions about Iran and to US (CIA) funding of al-Qaeda associated groups in Lebanon to fight against Iranian backed Hezbollah. The support of al-Qaeda groups was originally reported by Seymour Hersh. (Now it appears that the US - in that it funds Pakistani operations in the tribal areas - has been supporting Pakistani military assistance for the Taliban in their efforts to kill Uzbek militants. The Taliban have been attacking Uzbeks "because of their reluctance to kill American troops."
See "Taliban All Over," The Economist, April 12, 2007.
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9008911

Why have US troops been dying in Iraq - we're told as part of a "war against terror" directed at al-Qaeda - when the US has been funding al-Qaeda in Lebanon? Why has the media been silent about this? And why is the US supporting the Taliban's war against militants who do not want to attack US troops?

The Scott Ritter program was sponsored by Veterans for Peace, Indiana Chapter #49, Indianapolis Peace House & Plowshares,
Indianapolis Peace and Justice Center, and Traprock Peace Center.

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[Chillart]

Scott Ritter is fantastic-he should be heard in EVERY home,everywhere NOW.

[ThaSilverSurfer]

this guys memory and clear perception of political events would probably exclude him from main stream coverage.

[Hirnlego999]

If people knew about PNAC and things like the office of special plans then they'd know Iran is just Iraq redux, or actually far more peaceful and not a threat.

Google "Powell & Rice Declare Iraq Has No WMD and Is Not a Threat" this was in 2001. Hussein was "our butcher"

[lazydogs]

5*

[fenris370]

His conspiracy theories however, are not quite sound. Iran is not like Iraq, they never had a history of WMDs like Saddam. If their intentions are honest leave them be. But if its proven thqt they are helping Iraqi insurgents kill American Soldiers, well then....

[fenris370]

Good video, He has a lot of good points, but his disgruntled tone is very politically skewed. I agree about not going into Iran. Rt away anyhows. His advice to the ambassador is sound. Keep both hands open and in front of you, don't make any sudden moves and you walk away unharmed.

[4Article1]

Now this is an intelligent clip! Conspiracies are in the minds of American's and when they wake up, they will realize, they've been played by the famous deflect and confuse strategy. No 1, sales technique and every media giant uses it, it's termed "spin".

[hypnofan35]

i get my news on YouTube these days. Even Blitzer knows his place. Lou Dobbs yells about stuff, but is a bit of an antagonist. Cafferty is pretty good. Some are fair and balanced interviewers. George Tenet could not look good behind a gigantic photo of Angelina. He works "very very extremely hard" just like George Bush.

[BrosaJarlen]

The problem is that once you get a guy like that into the oval office, he gets a bullet in the head, and we're back to square one. But, yes I agree; he's honest.

[Zanzabarz]

I love the first question and his answer!!