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In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Scott Ritter’s Iraq Confidential was embraced by the antiwar movement in America. His claims that Iraq had been effectively disarmed were ignored by both the Bush administration and the mainstream media. In the wake of the debacle, Ritter has been vindicated. Now Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector, has set his sights on the White House’s hyping of Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program. In Target Iran he once again sets the … More >>
Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change
#1 by Seth J. Frantzman on May 7, 2010 - 4:15 pm
If Bush wanted regime change in Iran based on the fear of her obtaining nuclear weapons, then surely she would have been the first to go in 2003 not, the last after Iraq and North Korea. It is Iran that actually has avowed nuclear weapons programs that have not been retarded by inspections, as were Saddams after 1991. Regime change is not on the map insofar as America will not invade Iran. Regime change would be welcomed, if local Iranians could do that. Ritter, who fear mongered about Iraq after pocketing American dollars to unsuccesffuly complete a job there, is now turning the whining about U.S policy to Iran.
The idea here is that ‘bad’ Israel will use the ‘bad’ lobby in the United States to conspire to get America to do her dirty work. But one wonders why it is isn’t mentioned that both Egypt and Saudi, the other pillars of American alliance in the Middle East fear a nuclear Iran, because they are Sunni Arabs and they have an age old fear of Persian Shiites. It may turn out that the U.S supports regime change to defend the 10th century regime in Saudi, but the idea that it is because of Israel is foolish and nearsighted.
This book is yet another doomsday sayer, fearmongering about something that will never happen.
Seth J. Frantzman
Rating: 3 / 5
#2 by Yossarian on May 7, 2010 - 4:31 pm
This could have been one of the most important books of the year. Scott Ritter provides important, but tangential, information related to Israel’s influence over U.S. foreign policy, the history of the IAEA in Iran, and the theory of regime change as the real reason for U.S. “concern” over Iran’s nuclear weapons infrastructure.
Unfortunately, Mr. Ritter misses on two counts. First, he offers little direct insight into the Bush administration’s policy-making process. And second, someone forgot to edit the book. We are talking about gross grammatical errors, periods in the middle of a sentence, and even a sentence that is punctuated with both a question mark and a period. It is painful to read some of the paragraphs because they are so poorly constructed (at first, I thought my eyes were tired).
At least this book attempts to offer something better than the pablum provided by major media and NPR. It does provide some real insights into the workings of the IAEA, Israeli intelligence and exiled leaders-in-waiting who often lead U.S. policy astray.
Mr. Ritter is at his best when he stays close to his area of expertise – weapons inspections. This topic requires far more than that.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Ban on May 7, 2010 - 4:45 pm
As an Iranian activist and someone who has followed not only the track record of the Islamic Republic of Iran from it’s inception and has spent her life studying the roots of Islamo Imperialism in Iran over the last 110 years…AND works daily at monitoring the movements of the Mullacracy in Iran, I have to say that Mr. Ritter’s book reads like textbook pro-Muallah apologistic agenda of the so-called “realists” who have always been the group to facilitate all of Tehran’s regime’s horrific actions from the very beginning. These are the very people who have put out this nonsensical National Intelligence Estimate which even authorities of Tehran have dismissed and laughed at.
Also, Mr. Ritter’s track record as an ideologue whose opinions seem to change with the wind and his whims proceeds him. Mr. Ritter is the picture of the type of westerner most easterner are horrified by; he keeps making pronouncements about places and peoples about whom he knows nothing and judges their rulers from a place that is utterly irrelevant; that’s cultural imperialism. Frankly his daydream of a book is nothing more than another boost to the regime that has over 2 million Iranian dead in it’s wake (that number includes the innocent young men the Mullahs sent to the nightmarish and 8-year-long Iran/Iraq war) and continues to gut a noble nation like Iran. Shame on Mr. Ritter for stooping this low.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Dimitrios on May 7, 2010 - 5:39 pm
This book has many merits and is surely the best you can find if you are looking for a good overview of the Iranian nuclear issue up to the end of 2006. Included is the critical role of Israel, the US policy toward Tehran, the IAEA efforts (and some of its techniques) and many more. The problem is that the story is still going on and none knows how (and when) it will end. Thus I think it’s rather premature to buy a book only for a synopsis of the US-Israel-Iran crisis, while new developments happen nearly every day. Mr Scott has also no comments on the possible “military solutions” (except a few lines stating that they will be catastrophic as a choice), something that I found disappointing to say the least.
Rating: 3 / 5
#5 by James R. McDonald on May 7, 2010 - 8:32 pm
This guy has been the perp involved twice with under age girls. Just something you might want to consider before supporting him with your money…
Rating: 1 / 5