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Former UN Weapons Inspector
Interview with Scott Ritter,
As violence continued to consume U.S.-occupied Iraq, President Bush addressed the nation on Sept. 7 to explain his administration's policies there and request $87 billion for the pacification and reconstruction of both Iraq and Afghanistan. Although the president conspicuously omitted any mention of the U.S. failure to capture Osama bin Laden or to locate any of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction used by his administration to justify its war, he maintained that Iraq was now the central front in the war against terrorism. As he has many times before, the president linked the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks against the U.S. to the toppled regime of Saddam Hussein, despite the lack of any evidence connecting Iraq with the al Qaeda network.
Acknowledging the fact that his administration's "go it alone" approach was not working, Bush also announced a new initiative to ask for soldiers and money from United Nations member states to stabilize Iraq.
Scott Ritter is a former Marine intelligence officer and U.N. weapons inspector who served in Iraq for seven years before resigning in 1998. In the months before the U.S. invasion, Ritter had publicly challenged the Bush administration's contention that Baghdad's weapons systems posed a grave risk to the U.S and necessitated a war. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Scott Ritter about the Bush administration's justification for war and the U.S. occupation of Iraq detailed in his new book titled, "Frontier Justice, Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Bushwhacking of America,"
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Americans Ask if U.S. Wars Have Made Them Safer
Interview with John Gershman,
In Iraq, guerrilla assaults on U.S. and British soldiers have killed and wounded an increasing number of troops, while deadly bombings have targeted United Nations headquarters, a Shiite holy shrine and the Jordanian embassy. Victims of the attacks have included top U.N. diplomat Sergio de Mello and powerful Shia cleric Mohammed Bakr al Hakim. At the same time, sabotage of Iraq's oil production and utility infrastructure has deprived the wartorn nation of basic services and desperately needed revenue. President Bush recently told the nation that, "We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities." On the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, many Americans are asking themselves if the Bush administration's foreign and domestic policies have made the nation safer and less vulnerable to future terrorist strikes. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with John Gershman, senior analyst with the Interhemispheric Resource Center, who assesses the effectiveness of President Bush's initiatives to counter terrorism. Read John Gershman's articles online at www.wpif.org Related links
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Working to Derail FCC Media Deregulation Plan
Interview with Josh Silver,
The court decision was made in reaction to a lawsuit filed by the Prometheus Radio Project, a group which promotes the expansion of low power FM broadcasting. The judges issued the stay, which could remain in force until late November, in order to review the impact of the new FCC rules on the public interest. The FCC's recent move to deregulate the nation's media, widely expected to increase the concentration of ownership of TV, radio and publishing companies, spawned the growth of a national grassroots movement to oppose the rules change and advocate for increased diversity on the airwaves. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Josh Silver, managing director of the group Free Press, who looks at the significance of the FCC court ruling and the growing strength of groups working to reform the U.S. media system. To find out more about the nation's media reform movement call Free Press toll free at 1 (866) 666-1533 or visit their website at www.mediareform.net Related links
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