Ex-UN weapons inspector compares Blair and Bush to nazis
Daily Telegraph | 09.10.2005 05:00
Bush and Blair, and their respective Regimes, are guilty of the very same crimes Hitler's was condemned for in 1946.
Ex-UN weapons inspector compares Blair and Bush to nazis
(Filed: 07/10/2005)
A former chief UN weapons inspector has compared Prime Minister Tony Blair and George W Bush, the American president, to the Nazi war criminals who started the Second World War.
Scott Ritter, a former US marine, said the US and Britain's "aggressive warfare" in Iraq was similar to German actions in Europe 66 years ago.
"Both these men could be pulled up as war criminals for engaging in actions that we condemned Germany in 1946 for doing the same thing," he said.
He said both leaders would be in a much better position if they had received the backing of the international community by the passing of the infamous second UN resolution.
Mr Ritter also said the "special relationship" between Britain and the US left British honour as nothing more than a "disregarded mistress".
He claimed the sharing of information was a one-way system with the US benefiting from UK intelligence. He said: "Britain gets nothing, other than to say they are America's closest ally in Europe."
Mr Ritter, who was a UN weapons inspector in Iraq between 1991 and 1998, was speaking at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London.
Mr Ritter told how he delivered a report in 1992 stating that Iraq's missile programme had been eliminated. But, he said, the news was met with "stony silence" and he was told that Iraq still possessed 200 missiles.
The inspectors returned to track down the weapons which never materialised.
"Ninety percent of the time or more we received full co-operation of the Iraqi government."
But there was understandable Iraqi resistance when US intelligence tried to use the weapons inspectors as a way of gaining inside information on the Iraqis to try and rid them of their leader, he argued.
(Filed: 07/10/2005)
A former chief UN weapons inspector has compared Prime Minister Tony Blair and George W Bush, the American president, to the Nazi war criminals who started the Second World War.
Scott Ritter, a former US marine, said the US and Britain's "aggressive warfare" in Iraq was similar to German actions in Europe 66 years ago.
"Both these men could be pulled up as war criminals for engaging in actions that we condemned Germany in 1946 for doing the same thing," he said.
He said both leaders would be in a much better position if they had received the backing of the international community by the passing of the infamous second UN resolution.
Mr Ritter also said the "special relationship" between Britain and the US left British honour as nothing more than a "disregarded mistress".
He claimed the sharing of information was a one-way system with the US benefiting from UK intelligence. He said: "Britain gets nothing, other than to say they are America's closest ally in Europe."
Mr Ritter, who was a UN weapons inspector in Iraq between 1991 and 1998, was speaking at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London.
Mr Ritter told how he delivered a report in 1992 stating that Iraq's missile programme had been eliminated. But, he said, the news was met with "stony silence" and he was told that Iraq still possessed 200 missiles.
The inspectors returned to track down the weapons which never materialised.
"Ninety percent of the time or more we received full co-operation of the Iraqi government."
But there was understandable Iraqi resistance when US intelligence tried to use the weapons inspectors as a way of gaining inside information on the Iraqis to try and rid them of their leader, he argued.
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There is a very big difference between America and Nazi Germany!
10.10.2005 08:47
Saddam Husseins' regime also murdered 300,000 people, started an unprovoked war with Iran aswell which lasted 8 years and cost a million lives, persecuted millions of Kurds, Shias and Marsh Arabs forcing four millon of them to flee as refugees, so Saddam's regime far more closely resembled that of nazi Germany that does the democratic government of America! How on earth can you say that it was a war crime to end such an evil and murderous regime as that of Saddam Husseins'?
Concerned
Blah ...
10.10.2005 20:53
WAS a democratic Republic. The election frauds of both 2000 and 2004, which allowed the Neo-Fascists to seize power, brought an end to that illusion.
"which went to war to end a brutal dictatorship in Iraq."
No, they went to war in order to plunder the country and its resources, protect the Apartheid Zionist State, and set up a logistical base for future aggressions. The Cover Story you're referring to, which also violates International Law by the way, only surfaced after their LIES about WMD were exposed.
And let's not forget that many of the same people present in the current Bush/PNAC Regime created that brutal Regime ...
"Nazi Germany was a brutal dictatorship"
Which grew out of a democratic state, manipulated in much the same manner as the Bush/PNAC Regime. Remember the old saying that everything that Hitler did was 'legal'? Same thing ...
"which went to war against democratic countries."
And their Aggressions were the reason that the International Laws violated by Bush/Bliar were created by men with the Terror of World War fresh in mind, to spare Mankind from this type of Madness.
"If any country was like nazi Germany then it was Saddam Husseins' Iraq when it invaded Kuwait in 1990!"
Or the US/UK when they invaded Iraq in 2003!
Don't forget that Iraq was a US Client State in 1990.
"Saddam Husseins' regime also murdered 300,000 people"
That's not yet supported by evidence, but yes, his Regime, installed, protected from coup attempts, trained, funded, armed, and given logistical support by the US, was terrible.
But that's a Red Herring ...
"started an unprovoked war with Iran aswell which lasted 8 years and cost a million lives"
And the US, using Israel as a Third Party, armed both sides of that war. That's what Iran-Contra was all about.
"How on earth can you say that it was a war crime to end such an evil and murderous regime as that of Saddam Husseins'?"
Nobody's saying that. But that was not the reason this long-planned war of aggression for profit was carried out, so your entire premise is flawed and dishonest.
I know how you Hard Right-Wingers loathe Academics, but you may wish to read up on any of the many studies written in the past few years, detailing the parralels of Hitler's Reich and Bush/PNAC's Neo-Fascist Regime.
Typical Spook Droppings
Concerned olny has a selective memory
11.10.2005 11:10
Lets all remind him