He was right about Iraq. Despite 500 faxed pleas to call him as a witness before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2002, Congress did not want to hear the truth. Now, with over 650,000 Iraqi deaths attributed to the war (Lancet peer reviewed publ
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With the USS Ronald Reagan carrier group about to "surge deploy," Ritter says "We're on the edge of the abyss....The bottom line is this Congress has so abrogated its responsibilities of oversight that it has diluted whatever powers it once had to affect American foreign national security policy. And unless the Congress somehow awakens, there is no hope of avoiding armed conflict with Iran."
Ritter sees the danger of conflict escalating to a nuclear attack by the US, given that it lacks sufficient conventional forces to defeat Iran. Congress has approved a policy to consider the use of nuclear weapons 'preemptively' in a non-nuclear situation.
Congress has given Bush a green light to strike Iran, "and he is going to do so."
Wars against Iraq and Iran are part of a larger US strategy that would eventually include conflict with Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, Ritter says.
Why? A main reason is that the US wants to dictate the growth of China and India.
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