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
Scott Ritter quotes about
Both these men could be pulled up as war criminals for engaging in actions that we condemned Germany in 1946 for doing.
We have inspectors on the ground. They're getting compliance. They're doing their job and they're not finding anything that warrants a threat worthy of war,
has not been demonstrated to pose a threat worthy of war at this time.
I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.
I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.
That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.
We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause...
The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.
We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.
War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.
We had the proof. We couldn't present it. And that's where we are today.
We had the information. We had the goods on the Iraqis, clear and irrefutable evidence of Iraq's prohibited activities. We caught them red-handed.
It is complicated because you need members of all fields, including chemists, physicists and biologists. They are the heart and soul of the process.
I'll put my record of service up against anyone, bar none.