War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know is short book, written in 2002, by William Rivers Pitt and featuring an extensive interview with former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter. In it Pitt and Ritter examine the Bush administration's justifications for war with Iraq and call for a diplomatic solution instead of war. Ritter argues that Iraq once possessed many unconventional arms but they have either been destroyed or degraded. Therefore, the government's claims that Iraq had vast stockpiles of "weapons of mass destruction" were "shaky at best."[1] In reviewing this book, The Guardian called it "the most comprehensive independent analysis of the state of knowledge about Iraq's weapons programmes until the new team of inspectors went back."[2] Along with another book published by Context Books, The New York Times singled out War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know as an anti-war book that "emerged from, and then codified opposition to the war in Iraq."[3]
 Cover of the first edition | |
| Author | William Rivers Pitt |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Politics |
| Publisher | Context Books |
Publication date | September 2002 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 78 (first edition) |
| ISBN | 1-893956-38-5 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Broad, William (18 April 2003), "A NATION AT WAR: OUTLAWED WEAPONS; Some Skeptics Say Arms Hunt Is Fruitless", The New York Times, retrieved 2013-02-28
- ^ Steele, Jonathan (25 January 2003), "A mess of our making", The Guardian, p. 11, retrieved 2010-03-09
- ^ St. John, Warren (8 June 2003), "Enlisting the Stars to Tilt at the Right", The New York Times, retrieved 2013-02-28
External links
edit- Johnson, Dennis Loy (9 December 2002). "The Secret Bestseller List". Moby Lives. Melville House Books. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
- Howell, Kevin; Nowotka, Edward (8 April 2003). "The War and the Words". Volume 250, Issue 14. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
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