{"id":2453,"date":"2005-10-21T15:45:53","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T22:45:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-10-21T15:45:53","modified_gmt":"2005-10-21T22:45:53","slug":"scott-ritter-he-spoke-truth-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/21\/scott-ritter-he-spoke-truth-to-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Ritter: He Spoke Truth to Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/10\/21\/145202\">Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh<\/a> on &#8220;Democracy Now,&#8221; debunk what Hersh calls the &#8220;urban myth&#8221; that &#8220;everybody&#8221; believed Iraq had WMD. From G.H.W. Bush to Clinton to Bush II &#8212; as Ritter shows in his new book, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iraqconfidential.com\/\">Iraq Confidential<\/a><\/i>, it was all about &#8220;regime change,&#8221; and never about disarmament. <\/p>\n<p>The Clinton administration tried to intimidate Ritter into silence, he says. So much for the wishful thinking of antiwar Democrats that a change in administrations would have averted the invasion of Iraq. <\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;re getting ready to do the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoopt.org\/article24358.html\">same thing to Iran<\/a> &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Ritter, a former UN arms inspector in Iraq, knew there weren&#8217;t any WMD in Iraq after the mid-1990s. He told the truth, and was relentlessly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/justin\/j012203.html\">smeared<\/a> for his efforts. His analysis is fascinating. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/10\/21\/145202\">Check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh on &#8220;Democracy Now,&#8221; debunk what Hersh calls the &#8220;urban myth&#8221; that &#8220;everybody&#8221; believed Iraq had WMD. From G.H.W. Bush to Clinton to Bush II &#8212; as Ritter shows in his new book, Iraq Confidential, it was all about &#8220;regime change,&#8221; and never about disarmament. The Clinton administration tried to intimidate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}