Dimensions
136 x 211 x 17mm
Scott Ritter, a former US Marine's intelligence officer who served in the first war against Iraq, was the UN's top weapons inspector in Iraq until 1998 when he resigned, claiming that President Clinton was too soft on Saddam. But that was just a warm-up for the man the 'New York Times' called "the most famous renegade Marine officer since Oliver North".
In this shocking condemnation of the Bush administration and the U.S. military and intelligence agencies by one of their own, Ritter argues with overwhelming force and clarity that Saddam Hussein simply did not have the weapons of mass destruction which were the justification for the pre-emptive war on Iraq.
Prior to the war, he argued that "my government is making a case for war against Iraq that is built upon fear and ignorance, as opposed to the reality of truth and fact . . . the truth of the matter is that Iraq is not a sponsor of the kind of terror perpetrated against the United States on 11 September . . . the truth of the matter is that Iraq today is not a threat to its neighbours . . . the truth of the matter is that Iraq has not been shown to possess weapons of mass destruction."
In 'Frontier Justice', Ritter continues in this straight-to-the-point style, and his established credentials as soldier, regional expert, and political conservative make his argument all the more compelling. By exposing the so-called evidence put forward by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Powell as a crude tapestry of lies, exaggerations, and forgery, this intelligent and controversial work addresses key issues which are dominating headlines in Australia, the USA, and Britain.
