The Big Lie: ‘Iran Is a Threat’ By Scott Ritter

The Big Lie: ‘Iran Is a Threat’
By Scott Ritter 10/08/07

"On every point, the case made against Iran collapses upon closer scrutiny. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), mandated to investigate Iran’s nuclear programs, has concluded that there is no evidence that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program. Furthermore, the IAEA has concluded that it is capable of monitoring the Iranian nuclear program to ensure that it does not deviate from the permitted nuclear energy program Iran states to be the exclusive objective of its endeavors. Iran’s support of the Hezbollah Party in Lebanon - Iranian protestors shown here supporting Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during an anti-Israel rally - while a source of concern for the State of Israel, does not constitute a threat to American national security primarily because the support provided is primarily defensive in nature, designed to assist Hezbollah in deterring and repelling an Israeli assault of sovereign Lebanese territory. Similarly, the bulk of the data used by the United States to substantiate the claims that Iran is a state sponsor of terror is derived from the aforementioned support provided to Hezbollah. Other arguments presented are either grossly out of date (going back to the early 1980’s when Iran was in fact exporting Islamic fundamentalism) or unsubstantiated by fact."

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/08/4404/

Some years ago when I read Mark Crispin Miller's Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order.

Scott is a marine, and a former U.N. weapon inspector who was routinely smeared and called un-American, "you're drinking Saddam's kool-aid," etc in the so-called "liberal" media during the run up to the invasion of Iraq. Yet, his facts were sound, while the cheer leading of fascists resulted in manufacturing the people's consent, and a million dead Iraqis who have been "liberated" ...from their earthly existence.

Learned about him in the run up to the war. He kicked ass, was right about everything pretty much, said Bush was lying and there were no WMD because his team had done their job well despite infiltration, etc. He was smeared despite being a gung-ho Marine and Republican.