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http://tinyurl.com/b5t9 London Telegraph Bush was like Hitler, says weapons man By Hannah Cleaver in Berlin (Filed: 07/05/2003) Scott Ritter, a former United Nations weapons inspector, has compared the invasion of Iraq to Hitler's invasion of Poland. He told the Berliner Zeitung newspaper that 130 Americans had died "for a lie", adding: "I see no difference between the invasion of Iraq and the invasion of Poland in 1939." Both invasions were based on what he said was an artificial argument of self defence. President George W Bush had used the September 11 attacks as Hitler used the 1933 burning of the Reichstag to repress domestic dissidents. Mr Ritter, who resigned as an inspector in 1998 saying Saddam Hussein's regime was hindering his work, said he did not now believe there were weapons of mass destruction in the country. He called for inspectors to be sent back to obtain confirmation, so that UN sanctions could be lifted. "The inspectors have to finish their work," he said. "This time they must also have the courage to say that the US has not told the truth." ----- Original Message ----- From: "ppg" <ppg@nyc.rr.com> To: <casi-discuss@lists.casi.org.uk> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 6:57 PM Subject: [casi] Rumsfeld : 'Blitzkrieg modeling' > > > SEC. DONALD RUMSFELD: TV INTERVIEW > PART ONE > February 4, 2002 > > > JIM LEHRER: Now our newsmaker interview with the Secretary of Defense, > Donald Rumsfeld. > > Mr. Secretary, welcome. > > DONALD RUMSFELD: Thank you. > > JIM LEHRER: The president's budget is being called a war budget. What would > you call it? > > > DONALD RUMSFELD: I would say that it is a budget that reflects the > priorities that are appropriate to our times. The pattern always is that if > you're in a war, if you're in a conflict, that you need to fund that > conflict. Some have tried to do guns and butter, both, in the past, as we > recall. In this case the president decided to moderate and hold down > spending for things other than defense or homeland security, and so for the > most part that's been the case. This is, I think, a very appropriate and > thoughtful, wise budget. > > JIM LEHRER: Before 9/11, you talked much about reforming the military, > changing the way things work, changing the culture. Does this budget reflect > any of that? > > DONALD RUMSFELD: Oh, indeed, it does. The 2003 budget, which was part of the > President's budget announced today, has a great deal of transformation in > it. There's some who define transformation one way, would say that there's > some $20 billion worth of transformational activities; another way of > defining it would say $50 billion. I think it's almost inappropriate to look > at dollars. I think that - that transformation is not an event; it is a > process. It is something that involves a mind set, an attitude, a culture. > It is something that, for example, might not even involve a new weapons > system. It might just be the connectivity among existing weapons systems. It > might be a different way of organizing or fighting, as we found in > Afghanistan. So I think the transformation - the word - needs to think about > it and understand that it's more of a process than an event. > > JIM LEHRER: But if somebody were to look at this budget - forget the money > for a while - just look at what it buys, does it buy anything that's > different than what we already have? > > DONALD RUMSFELD: Well, I think when you say "that different," it's important > to understand that you can - when the Germans transformed their armed forces > into the Blitzkrieg, they transformed only about 5 or 10 percent of their > force. Everything else was the same, but they transformed the way they used > it, the connectivity between aircraft and forces on the ground, the > concentration of it in a specific portion of the line, and it - one would > not want to transform 100 percent of your forces. You only need to transform > a portion........ > > cheers, pg (or should I say Heil) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. > To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss > To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk > All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk