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Ex-Inspector's Book Attacks Bush, U.N.

Tue Jul 15, 1:53 AM ET

By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer

UNITED NATIONS - Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter released a new book, accusing President Bush (news - web sites) of illegally attacking Iraq (news - web sites) and calling for "regime change" in the United States at the next election.

Ritter criticized key figures caught up in the U.S.-led war at Monday's U.N. news conference. He said Bush lied to the American people and Congress about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction; U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) lacked courage; former chief weapons inspector Hans Blix was "a moral and intellectual coward."

Ritter, a former U.S. Marine, was a weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998. He has been a vocal critical of the Bush administration's policy on Iraq.

Ritter said he wrote "Frontier Justice, Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Bushwacking of America" to educate people. The 209-page paperback, published by Context Books, has on its cover a picture of Bush in jeans and a cowboy hat, behind the wheel of a truck.

In the book, Ritter notes that the Bush administration's stated reason for launching the war was to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. The book argues that there is no evidence that Iraq possesses, produces or concealed nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. Therefore, Ritter argues that "the United States carried out an illegal war of aggression."

Bush, responding Monday to similar charges about the lack of evidence of illegal Iraqi weapons, insisted: "When it's all said and done, the people of the United States and the world will realize that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) had a weapons program."

Ritter said Bush's real goal was to get rid of Saddam Hussein's regime. "What is needed in America is regime change," Ritter writes. "Anything but Bush and (Vice President Dick) Cheney."

At the news conference, Ritter accused France and Germany of failing to get a Security Council or General Assembly resolution calling the war illegal and demanding a U.S. withdrawal.

Ritter had kind words for Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He said ElBaradei was "much more honest" than Blix about appraising Iraq's nuclear weapons and the threat they posed.

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SnyderShrugged

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Trying to decide whether or not this man deserves a new thread or I should just add to an old thread.

Looks like Ritter has been caught up in another sex-sting... This time, he was pretending to be a 15-year old girl...

edit: found it

http://dailycaller.com/2010/01/15/former-u-n-inspector-scott-ritter-sends-sexually-explicit-video-and-messages-to-presumed-minor/

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Another link. I copied the last two lines. He lives in the same town as me. I feel terrible for his wife and daughters. Just think of the embarrassment.

According to published interviews, Ritter has twin daughters who are about 16. He met his second wife, Marina, a translator, while assigned as a counterintelligence officer in the former Soviet Union. They moved to upstate New York about 10 years ago.

"I came to Delmar ... to put roots down, to raise a family and live a normal middle-class American life," Ritter told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2002.

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Another link. I copied the last two lines. He lives in the same town as me. I feel terrible for his wife and daughters. Just think of the embarrassment.

According to published interviews, Ritter has twin daughters who are about 16. He met his second wife, Marina, a translator, while assigned as a counterintelligence officer in the former Soviet Union. They moved to upstate New York about 10 years ago.

"I came to Delmar ... to put roots down, to raise a family and live a normal middle-class American life," Ritter told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2002.

so he was sexting with a kid younger than his daughters? eeewww

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They guy is scum.

This guy is scum. Having said that the WMD claims relating to Iraq were entirely wrong. The two are not mutually exclusive and in fact completely unrelated save for this one man involved.

As for the update.... two times is one time too many. Charge him jail him and let his wife get to building a new life without this freak.

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As for the update.... two times is one time too many. Charge him jail him and let his wife get to building a new life without this freak.
Word around here is this is the third time. Around 2003 the FBI took over from locals extremely quickly and hushed it. Supposedly was involving chat rooms. I have no proof of this except word of mouth from numerous people which includes an officer from the town the alleged incident occurred.
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Trying to decide whether or not this man deserves a new thread or I should just add to an old thread.

Looks like Ritter has been caught up in another sex-sting... This time, he was pretending to be a 15-year old girl...

The things the CIA will do to silence whistleblowers. :)

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As to his claims about WMD and Iraq:

I heard him interviewed before we invaded Iraq. And what he said was that we had irrefutable proof, before the invasion, that

1) Saddam had been getting around the sanctions, and had obtained prohibited weapons.

2) And he had destroyed massive quantities of them. (Or, in other cases, they had been destroyed in the '91 war.)

The way they know that Saddam had been destroying prohibited weapons was because they found the weapons he'd destroyed.

The American response was "that doesn't prove that he destroyed all of them". (Which is a true statement.)

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Now, that doesn't prove that he's a great guy. It doesn't prove that "Bush Lied".

However, Ritter said that Saddam had gotten rid of his WMDs. And all of the evidence since the invasion says he was right. (And Ritter had physical proof to back up his claims, before the war.)

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As to his claims about WMD and Iraq:

I heard him interviewed before we invaded Iraq. And what he said was that we had irrefutable proof, before the invasion, that

1) Saddam had been getting around the sanctions, and had obtained prohibited weapons.

2) And he had destroyed massive quantities of them. (Or, in other cases, they had been destroyed in the '91 war.)

The way they know that Saddam had been destroying prohibited weapons was because they found the weapons he'd destroyed.

The American response was "that doesn't prove that he destroyed all of them". (Which is a true statement.)

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Now, that doesn't prove that he's a great guy. It doesn't prove that "Bush Lied".

However, Ritter said that Saddam had gotten rid of his WMDs. And all of the evidence since the invasion says he was right. (And Ritter had physical proof to back up his claims, before the war.)

Gonna need links to your sources on this Larry.

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