Challenge yourself to be intellectually honest
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I am sure Scott Ritter, whose book is ranked #19 at Amazon Germany, confirms everything you want to think about the US and Iraq. I’m sure you wanted to trust him because he was part of the UN inspection team, he has expertise as a weapons inspector and, therefore, he knows what he is talking about. You considered his book to be a good way to get away from the propaganda of the current United States administration and to find out the real truth from someone who was there, on the ground, in Iraq.
If you turned to Scott Ritter for his expertise and experience, then of course you will be willing to do the same for his former boss, Richard Butler. I know this is not easy because, whereas Ritter’s book is available in German, Butler’s is not. This fact alone should make you wonder if some people out there are not being intellectually honest about the Iraq issue.
Let’s put together a part of Richard Butler’s CV (Lebenslauf):
1965: Served as an Australian representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna.
1970: One of the eight Australian diplomats at UN headquarters in New York.
1975: Australia’s deputy high commissioner to Singapore.
1976: Chief of Staff to Gough Whitlam, opposition leader in the Australian parliament.
1977: Australia’s deputy chief of mission in Bonn, West Germany.
1982: Appointed minister and deputy permanent representative for Australia at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
1983: Appointed Australian Ambassador for Disarmament. Led Australian delegation to the Conference on Disarmament.
1988: Awarded the Order of Australia “for services to international peace and disarmament.”
1989-1991: Australian ambassador to Thailand.
1991: Australian ambassador to Cambodia.
1992-1997: Australian ambassador to the United Nations.
We know what he did after that. He tried to help disarm Saddam Hussein.
My question: why isn’t Butler being read in Europe? Is he less experienced than Scott Ritter? Less trustworthy?
In the UK, where there can be no excuse based on translation, Ritter’s most popular book is ranked #3,452. Butler’s most popular book is ranked #23,830.
Take the intellectual honesty challenge: read Richard Butler’s The Greatest Threat. Find it in English and buy it!
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