Scott Ritter, author of Target Iran on April 21, 2008 talks to Davis, California.
Scott Ritter was one of UNSCOM's most senior weapons inspectors in Iraq between 1991 and 1998. Prior to working with UNSCOM, he served for eight years in the Army and Marine Corps. In the Marine Corps, he served as an intelligence officer, conducted arms inspections in the former Soviet Union. He provided analysis of Iraq's missile capacity to General Schwarzkopf in the 1991 Gulf War. Seymour Hersh has observed: "The important thing to know about Scott Ritter is that he was right."
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Scott Horton talks with author and reporter Chris Hedges about the corrupting influence of violent and conflict on individuals and culture.
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, who has covered more than a dozen wars. He has been on the staff of The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, and The Christian Science Monitor. He also worked for National Public Radio. He is the author of the books: "Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America", "What Every Person Should Know About War" and "War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning". Currently he is at Princeton University as Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Ferris Professor of Journalism.