Frontier Justice: Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Bushwhacking of America

By Scott Ritter

Frontier Justice exposes the fraudulent manner in which President Bush and Company's new scheme of world domination has been sold to Congress and the American people, especially through the "Big Lie"... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893956474
• ISBN13: 9781893956476
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Context Books
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

A Compelling Book by an American Hero

This is a fine book--I just reread it now that there has been some time to give the run-up to Iraq some perspective. Ritter articulately makes the case that Iraq had long ago lost its ability to manufacture WMD's, and details his efforts to stop Bush's illegal war of aggression. This he does in a compelling, readable style, and potentially tedious technical information is handled in a clear, understandable way. Certainly, the lack of WMD's found in Iraq has proven Ritter entirely correct in virtally all of his assertions, and he has been utterly vindicated. The sad, ignorant war-supporters who ignored him--or worse, questioned his patriotism--have been exposed as un-American idiots who understood nothing of WMD's. If America had done a better job of listening to Mr. Ritter, our young people would not have died in vain, and we would not be stuck in a quagmire today. Scott Ritter is an American hero.

Excellent book - Ritter understands what defines patriotism

Despite the attempts at assasinate his character during 2003-2003, Scott Ritter has been proven correct about Iraq and its lack of WMD. He is correct that we the citizens and the Congress are culpable for beleiving the Big Lie. Right-wingers will certainly try to disparage this book, but in today's climate loyalty to political party seems to take precedence over loyalty to country and to the U.S. Constitution. IMO, Scott Ritter is trying to stand up for the enlightend ideas and principles that founded our nation, and his book was a refreshing read of what has gone wrong, and what we need to do to fix things in 2004. Regime change at home, no more Big Lies.Not only does Ritter painfully point out that the details showing that the Iraq invasion was a war of aggression, and as such illegal under International Law, but he successfully articulates that the US under this administration is looking very much like the earlier periods of fascism in Germany and Italy (mid-late 1930s). As an American I find these parallels repugnant, but an objective analysis of the facts suggest we are in fact following in those same footsteps. Indeed, the neoconservative quest for "global dominance" will never happen, and may ultimately lead to economic failure of the US. The founding fathers were absolutely adamant that the US reject the temptation of Empire - as the histories of Empires all end the same way: Military overextension and subsequent economic decline. It's time to revisit the real meaning of the Constitution, the wisdom of the founding fathers, and the ideas and principles that founded our great nation. As Ritter points out, simply waving the American flag and loving America is not enough - democracy requires active participation of the citizenry. Regrettably, Ritter is right 'America is going through a crisis of gigantic proportions. It is a struggle for the ideological soul of the nation. Bush and his posse have set a course for the future that dramatically departs, in words and in action, from the values and ideals set forth by our nation's founders." (page 201)FYI to the media: During WWI, Teddy Roosevelt - a true conservative, and a species of politicians that is now all but extinct once said - "To annouce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." (page 8)As pointed out by Ritter, Bush and the radical neoconservatives are the real traitors to both the American public and the ideas for which our country has stood for since the 1770s. Indeed, the US will quickly become an internaitonal isolated, bankrupt, and Authoritarian nation if this group of ideologues is not removed during next year's elections. Thank you Mr. Scott Ritter, for helping others understand that patriotism means - to protect the ideas espoused in our Constitution, from enemies both foreign and domestic - you are an American patr

An excellent history book

A wonderful book chronciling the events leading up to the second Gulf War and Scott Ritter's role in it. Scott Ritter had the courage to speak out about what he believed was an unjust and immoral invasion of a sovereign nation and he always back it up with facts that are constantly ignored by the major media broadcastors. This book is highly entertaining as well as informative and it inspires Americans to take their citizenship more seriously because there are people out there(Republicans) who are working hard to take our Democracy away from us.

Tough Presentation, Eye on the Ball

Scott Ritter writes and talks like the no-nonsense ex-Marine he is. Since his viewpoint is anti-militarism in the Bush preventive war context, his enemies are indeed frustrated that they cannot dismiss him as a lily-livered pacifist in the way that the right seeks to dispatch military critics from Vietnam to the present. A former weapons inspector in Iraq, Ritter tells the unvarnished truth without any political spin about that troubled Middle East nation and what was really happening during that critical period when inspectors attempted to analyze just what was occurring in that nation. He has been consistently vindicated in his claims that the weapons of mass destruction argument, which was the cornerstone of the pretext for invasion, is false. Ritter warned before America invaded that it was getting into a quagmire of Vietnam magnitude. Events have proven that claim valid. Compare the statements of Ritter regarding weapons of mass destruction and Iraqi military capability alongside those of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Powell and clear differences emerge. The reports of the latter have been sketchy and lacking in substantive foundation. Ritter, conversely, has been vindicated as U.S. troops have become bogged down in a bottomless pit with no end in sight. For the first time, poll figures reveal that Americans believe the current price being paid in loss of life and injury to be unacceptable.Ritter's conclusion in this timely work is, apropos his style, straightforward, directly to the point. When the subject of regime change is broached, Ritter believes that it needs to be achieved right here at home. Regime change begins with new American leadership with the vision to see the entire picture rather than deal in tawdry image creation and spin control.

Excellent book detailing why Bush really took us to war

When America was marching towards war, Scott Ritter was one of few dissenting voices. During that time, he was ridiculed as a traitor and a paid Saddam lackey. Three months after the war, Mr. Ritter's views have been vindicated both by the absence of the elusive WMD and the recent admission by the CIA that a critical argument in President Bush's State of the Union Address was based on a crude forgery. This book delves further into how the Bush administration exaggerated, misrepresented and even lied about Iraq's WMD capabilities to launch America's first pre-emptive war.