Carter Bashing!

President Carter's recent book Palestine: Peace not Apartheid has enraged many in the Jewish community and resulted in caustic accusations and slander being aimed at the Nobel Prize winning, Former President and noted Peace Activist. How is this possible? What causes this deep-rooted aggression to be served to a man who's life has been dedicated to making peace in that region? He more than anyone, knows the history of that region and in his book he recounts his role in the center of the struggle. Seventeen Jewish funders attempted to discredit him by releasing news to the mainstream media that they abdicated their positions on an advisory board. Though the media spun it as if their departure in some way verified the wild accusations of misstatements, they were strictly a board of donors, people who gave some money in exchange for recognition, who had nothing other than their own self-interests in making public their decisions not to continue supporting Carter. So why the character assassination?

Perhaps Major Scott Ritter, former Chief UN Weapons inspector in Iraq who served in the first Gulf War, knows the reason, and is fearless enough to say it in public. Watch this video as he and Pulitzer Prize winning author, Seymour Hersh discuss the US and its threat of Iran and the influence Israel has in US Foreign Policy. His take is a bit different from that being repeated from Washington and the MSM (mainstream media).

Scott has been relentlessly speaking truth to power since leaving Iraq in 1998. In interviews by FOXNEWS as well as several speaking engagements, he has helped shed light on US actions and intentions in the middle east. His take on Iran is as bold as was his warnings of our interest in Iraq. He alone stood in complete informed defiance of every reason the Bush Administration gave for linking war with Iraq to the events of September 11th. Now he seems to stand alone again, in informed defiance of this administration as it again plays off the fears of a nation of ill-informed viewers. His time, as Scott says, the consequences for our ignorant submission, will be catastrophic.