War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know

War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know is short book, written in 2002, by William Rivers Pitt and featuring an extensive interview with former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter. In it Pitt and Ritter examine the Bush administration's justifications for war with Iraq and call for a diplomatic solution instead of war. Ritter argues that Iraq once possessed many unconventional arms but they have either been destroyed or degraded. Therefore the government's claims that Iraq had vast stockpiles of "weapons of mass destruction" were "shaky at best." In reviewing this book, The Guardian called it "the most comprehensive independent analysis of the state of knowledge about Iraq's weapons programmes until the new team of inspectors went back." Along with another book published by Context Books, The New York Times singled out War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know as an anti-war book that "emerged from, and then codified opposition to the war in Iraq."

Editions

 * 2002, USA, Context Books, Pub date September, 2002, ISBN 1-893956-38-5
 * 2002, UK, Profile Books, Pub date September, 2002, ISBN 1-86197-636-4
 * 2002, FR, Serpent à plumes, Pub date October, 2002, ISBN 2-84261-406-2
 * 2002, DE, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Pub date 2002, ISBN 3-46203-211-9
 * 2002, ES, B Ediciones, Pub date December, 2002,ISBN 8-44061-167-6