Scott Ritter
Scott Ritter
William Scott Ritter Jr.was a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, and later a critic of United States foreign policy in the Middle East. Prior to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Ritter stated that Iraq possessed no significant weapons of mass destructioncapabilities, becoming "the loudest and most credible skeptic of the Bush administration’s contention that Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction." He received harsh criticism from the political establishment but became a popular...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth15 July 1961
CountryUnited States of America
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Iraq is a nation on fire. And our troops are the fuel that feeds that fire.
How do I know this? I've talked to Bolton's speechwriter.
I brought out a series of compact discs which contained the totality of the Iraqi declaration,
I am assisting United States veterans, heroes. People who put on our uniform, defended our country in time of war, who have been abandoned by their government.
I believe Iraq will seek to reconstitute a militarized nerve agent that will be used in a last ditch defense of Baghdad, and I think the Iraqi government's efforts to acquire significant stockpiles of atropine are an indication that this is the direction that Saddam Hussein is heading, ... Crossfire.
I know that inspections did work, ... We achieved a 90 to 95 percent level of verified, absolutely certain accountability for Iraq's weapons program.
The file was sealed. Those are the facts. I am ethically and legally bound not to discuss any aspect of this case, ... So is everybody else involved. Unfortunately, there appear to be those who don't feel to be bound by rule of law.
The guilt can be spread fairly evenly across the board,
An ACOD means that it's expunged from the record, as if it never happened,
In fact, the very policies that we are executing today only alienate us abroad, strengthen Saddam Hussein and give him cause to reconstitute these capabilities once he has the means,
Our guys working this area for a living all believe Chalabi and all those guys in their Bond Street suits are charlatans. To take them for a source of anything except a fantasy trip would be a real stretch. But it's an article of faith among those with no military experience that the Iraqi military is low-hanging fruit.
If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.
I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.
I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.