DEALBREAKER Donald Trump and the Unmaking of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Scott Ritter Foreword by Seymour Hersh ISBN: 978-0-9998747-5-2 $29.95 / 325 pp. / 2018 EBOOK ISBN: 978-0-9998747-6-9 ORDER E-BOOK: $20.00 |
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REVIEWS
"If Scott Ritter's warning on Iraq had been heeded,
hundreds of thousands of people would be alive today.
Deal Breaker is both a warning and a remarkable record
of the criminal destruction of an agreement everyone
wanted, except the deeply cynical, stupid and/or insane.
—JOHN PILGER
"Since there never was any verifiable evidence presented
in the nearly decade and a half charade attempting to prove
that Iran was in violation of the Treaty, as all 17 US
intelligence agiences had confirmed it was not, this new
effort by the United States, Israel and participating nations
to force it to abandon its civilian program on the pretext it
would be used to make weapons is unwarranted and makes
a sham of the legal authority of the Security Council that
has been brought to bear. Even the notion of
multilateralism has been damaged. In conclusion, Scott
Ritter’s compelling narrative provides us with a well
written, well documented, and interesting account of a
struggle that is not yet over. The book is a must read for
anyone who wants to understand the grave situation that
the world now faces as a result of Trump’s action, an action
which continues to threaten us all.
—CHRISTOPHER BLACK, Globalresearch.ca
"Dealbreaker reads like a thriller. Based on his expert
knowledge and long experience, Scott Ritter reveals the
lies and illusions behind the breaking of the Iran nuclear
deal."
—GARETH PORTER
Author, Manufactured Crisis
"As the people who got Iraq wrong are still all over your
television explaining what should be done next, here's a
novel idea: Read this book by Scott Ritter who got Iraq
right."
—DAVID SWANSON
Author, War Is A Lie
"Dealbreaker could not be timelier in view of the
misleading machinations of both Congress and the
Trump administration to rationalize the imposition of
sanctions on Iran in light of Donald Trump's ridiculous
decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. Trump's
narrative presented in support of his decision is derived
from manufactured intelligence, largely provided by
Israel. Ritter provides a fact-based counter-narrative
that cuts through the spin, lies and fabrications to paint a
clear picture of the reality behind Iran's nuclear program,
and lays out why the Iran nuclear deal represents the
best hope for a peaceful resolution between Iran and the
West."
—SENATOR MIKE GRAVEL (D. Alaska)
who officially released in the Senate Record the
Pentagon Papers contributing to ending the Vietnam War.
"If Scott Ritter's warning on Iraq had been heeded,
hundreds of thousands of people would be alive today.
Deal Breaker is both a warning and a remarkable record
of the criminal destruction of an agreement everyone
wanted, except the deeply cynical, stupid and/or insane.
—JOHN PILGER
"Since there never was any verifiable evidence presented
in the nearly decade and a half charade attempting to prove
that Iran was in violation of the Treaty, as all 17 US
intelligence agiences had confirmed it was not, this new
effort by the United States, Israel and participating nations
to force it to abandon its civilian program on the pretext it
would be used to make weapons is unwarranted and makes
a sham of the legal authority of the Security Council that
has been brought to bear. Even the notion of
multilateralism has been damaged. In conclusion, Scott
Ritter’s compelling narrative provides us with a well
written, well documented, and interesting account of a
struggle that is not yet over. The book is a must read for
anyone who wants to understand the grave situation that
the world now faces as a result of Trump’s action, an action
which continues to threaten us all.
—CHRISTOPHER BLACK, Globalresearch.ca
"Dealbreaker reads like a thriller. Based on his expert
knowledge and long experience, Scott Ritter reveals the
lies and illusions behind the breaking of the Iran nuclear
deal."
—GARETH PORTER
Author, Manufactured Crisis
"As the people who got Iraq wrong are still all over your
television explaining what should be done next, here's a
novel idea: Read this book by Scott Ritter who got Iraq
right."
—DAVID SWANSON
Author, War Is A Lie
"Dealbreaker could not be timelier in view of the
misleading machinations of both Congress and the
Trump administration to rationalize the imposition of
sanctions on Iran in light of Donald Trump's ridiculous
decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. Trump's
narrative presented in support of his decision is derived
from manufactured intelligence, largely provided by
Israel. Ritter provides a fact-based counter-narrative
that cuts through the spin, lies and fabrications to paint a
clear picture of the reality behind Iran's nuclear program,
and lays out why the Iran nuclear deal represents the
best hope for a peaceful resolution between Iran and the
West."
—SENATOR MIKE GRAVEL (D. Alaska)
who officially released in the Senate Record the
Pentagon Papers contributing to ending the Vietnam War.
EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS OF EARLIER WORKS
Endgame (1999)
"What is the endgame [Ritter] proposes? It is a starry-eyed
diplomatic solution, including ''an Iraqi Marshall Plan'' to rebuild
the shattered nation and ''military-to-military contacts to assist in
the modernization and training'' of the Iraqi Army -- about as
likely a plan as inviting Saddam to throw out the first ball at
Yankee Stadium. At the end of this book, Ritter writes: ''In the
end, a military solution may prove to be the only certain way to
solve the Saddam problem. At present, however, a military
solution is impossible.'' Thanks, Major. Dismissed."
"Scott Ritter stared into the abyss of Iraq for seven years,
searching for things unseen: missiles and bombs, nerve gas
and anthrax... Ritter has written several impassioned yet
reasoned passages indicting aspects of American policy in Iraq,
arguing convincingly that the economic sanctions against Iraq
are killing tens of thousands of children without imposing
political pain on Saddam Hussein. American leaders and the
American people have chosen to ignore that suffering."
Tim Weiner, The New York Times, April 11, 1999
"As commendable as Ritter's courage and ingenuity were in
wrestling with Iraqi duplicity, he shows little talent for policy
analysis. His solution to the current standoff -- a reinvigorated
system of inspections -- is wildly unrealistic given that even the
American government seems to have lost hope in UNSCOM."
"Until 1998, [Ritter] was an aggressive and energetic -- if
undiplomatic -- front-line sleuth who spearheaded operations
designed to uncover both Saddam's weapons programs and the
mechanisms for concealing those programs from Western
scrutiny."
Eliot Cohen, Foreign Affairs, July-August 1999
"Scott Ritter...gives an original and vivid account of the work of
the inspectors in all its drama and frustration. Ritter is the kind
of single-minded and conscientious intelligence official who is
not always appreciated by, or appreciative of, the higher
command, with its wide and diverse problems. Indeed he is
scornful of the crosscurrents, the compromises, and the
pressures that often go into making high policy. He is impatient
with the very idea that there are often hard truths which those
higher up do not wish to hear."
"Ritter denounces the US administration, and especially
Madeleine Albright, for undercutting his aggressive inspection
policy and putting pressure on Richard Butler—who strongly
denies his charges—to rein him in. His only hero in the US
administration is UN ambassador Bill Richardson, who
apparently supported Ritter’s damn-the-torpedoes approach. In
his resignation statement Ritter said, “The illusion of arms
control is more dangerous than no arms control at all,” and he
would not be a party to such an illusion."
Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of Books,
May 6, 1999
Endgame (1999)
"What is the endgame [Ritter] proposes? It is a starry-eyed
diplomatic solution, including ''an Iraqi Marshall Plan'' to rebuild
the shattered nation and ''military-to-military contacts to assist in
the modernization and training'' of the Iraqi Army -- about as
likely a plan as inviting Saddam to throw out the first ball at
Yankee Stadium. At the end of this book, Ritter writes: ''In the
end, a military solution may prove to be the only certain way to
solve the Saddam problem. At present, however, a military
solution is impossible.'' Thanks, Major. Dismissed."
"Scott Ritter stared into the abyss of Iraq for seven years,
searching for things unseen: missiles and bombs, nerve gas
and anthrax... Ritter has written several impassioned yet
reasoned passages indicting aspects of American policy in Iraq,
arguing convincingly that the economic sanctions against Iraq
are killing tens of thousands of children without imposing
political pain on Saddam Hussein. American leaders and the
American people have chosen to ignore that suffering."
Tim Weiner, The New York Times, April 11, 1999
"As commendable as Ritter's courage and ingenuity were in
wrestling with Iraqi duplicity, he shows little talent for policy
analysis. His solution to the current standoff -- a reinvigorated
system of inspections -- is wildly unrealistic given that even the
American government seems to have lost hope in UNSCOM."
"Until 1998, [Ritter] was an aggressive and energetic -- if
undiplomatic -- front-line sleuth who spearheaded operations
designed to uncover both Saddam's weapons programs and the
mechanisms for concealing those programs from Western
scrutiny."
Eliot Cohen, Foreign Affairs, July-August 1999
"Scott Ritter...gives an original and vivid account of the work of
the inspectors in all its drama and frustration. Ritter is the kind
of single-minded and conscientious intelligence official who is
not always appreciated by, or appreciative of, the higher
command, with its wide and diverse problems. Indeed he is
scornful of the crosscurrents, the compromises, and the
pressures that often go into making high policy. He is impatient
with the very idea that there are often hard truths which those
higher up do not wish to hear."
"Ritter denounces the US administration, and especially
Madeleine Albright, for undercutting his aggressive inspection
policy and putting pressure on Richard Butler—who strongly
denies his charges—to rein him in. His only hero in the US
administration is UN ambassador Bill Richardson, who
apparently supported Ritter’s damn-the-torpedoes approach. In
his resignation statement Ritter said, “The illusion of arms
control is more dangerous than no arms control at all,” and he
would not be a party to such an illusion."
Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of Books,
May 6, 1999
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