Scott Ritter is on DemocracyNow today

[bananas]

he just came on, 40 minutes into the show

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1. Very Important Interview

Ritter is so very, very good and informative.

Although what he is saying is depressing ... Bush is going to war against Iran.

Get the transcript of this interview later at the DN! web site.

[magellan]

2. Shoot, I'll have to catch the repeat later today

Is he talking about Iran and the US naval exercises that start there Oct 31?

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3. He was in Iran in September - very interesting interview

He didn't address the naval exercises.
At the end, Amy asked him about what Hersch and Gardiner have been saying,
he seemd to avoid giving a direct answer.
He also talked about Korea.

[pberq]

4. the interview is available - with transcript

Ritter says that the Bush administration is interested in one thing only: regime change

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/16/144204

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SCOTT RITTER:
. . .We now have Iran. It’s alleged to have a nuclear weapons program. And yet the International Atomic Energy Agency, the inspectors who have had full access to the sites in Iran, have come out and said, “Well, we can’t say that there isn’t a secret program that we don’t know about. What we can say, as a direct result of our investigations, there is no data whatsoever to sustain the Bush administration's claims that there is a nuclear weapons program.” And yet, the Bush administration once again is putting the onus on Iran, saying, “It’s not up to the inspectors to find the nuclear weapons program. It’s up to the Iranians to prove that one doesn’t exist.” Why do we go down this path? Because you can’t prove a negative. There’s nothing Iran can do that will satisfy the Bush administration, because the policy at the end of the day is not about nonproliferation, it’s not about disarmament. It’s about regime change. And all the Bush administration wants to do is to create the conditions that support their ultimate objective of military intervention.