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Calling Major Ritter
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37043 ^ | D. Hackworth

Posted on 02/10/2004 8:19:43 AM PST by rmgb

Like it or not, Maj. Scott Ritter had it right all along.

Most of the rest of us, from the president to his key advisers, such as Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, Wolfowitz and Tenet, to the majority of Congress and to most of the talking heads – including the pre-Iraq War NBC analyst David Kay, who reported WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) behind every Iraqi sand dune – blew it big-time when it came down to the awesome arsenal that Saddam had supposedly squirreled away.

Ritter, the United Nations' chief weapons inspector in Iraq until 1998, took us all on – virtually alone, against incredible odds – stating, "Iraq is not a threat to the U.S." and begging the American people to take charge and not "sit back and allow your government to go to war against Iraq ... [without all] the facts on the table to back this war up." (...)

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hackworth; iraq; patriot; ritter; soccermoms; wmd; wot
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I remember WorldNetDaily as being fiercely in favour of the war against Iraq?

It is a strange world: European and US leftists start endorsing the CIA and Tenet (may I say so much without my thread being pulled?), US conservatives start endorsing Ritter.

Against whom are they uniting? Anybody's guess.

1 posted on 02/10/2004 8:19:48 AM PST by rmgb
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To: rmgb
It is VERY weird.
2 posted on 02/10/2004 8:21:35 AM PST by EggsAckley (..................**AMEND** the Fourteenth Amendment......(There, is THAT better?).................)
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To: rmgb
The only thing that explains Ritters 180 degree turn on the state of Iraq's weapons program is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
3 posted on 02/10/2004 8:22:59 AM PST by MamaLucci (Free The Judiciary Committee Memos!)
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To: rmgb
Calling Major Ritter

We're sorry, the person you are calling is not available right now. (He's busy tending to his defense against charges of soliciting an underage girl for sexual favors at a Burger King.) Please leave a message and he'll return your call in 5 to 10 years.

4 posted on 02/10/2004 8:23:13 AM PST by VRWCmember (Dick Gephardt is a <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">miserable failure </a>)
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To: rmgb
Like it or not, Maj. Scott Ritter had it right all along.

Yeah suuuure...

5 posted on 02/10/2004 8:24:49 AM PST by demlosers (SUVs=Haliburton=Bush=Religion=Flag=VRWC=Repubs =WMDs= Oil=Black Helicopters=We're all going to die!!)
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To: rmgb
Scott Ritter was on the take from Saddam
6 posted on 02/10/2004 8:25:02 AM PST by Homer1
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To: rmgb
I've come to trust Col. Hackworth as much as I do Maj. Ritter.
7 posted on 02/10/2004 8:25:10 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: demlosers
Hang it up Hackworth
8 posted on 02/10/2004 8:26:08 AM PST by woofie
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To: MamaLucci
And/or kiddie porn...
9 posted on 02/10/2004 8:26:53 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: Homer1
Scott Ritter was on the take from Saddam

Not money but probably Iraqi children.

10 posted on 02/10/2004 8:27:42 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: rmgb
What the hay, Hack???

You mean to tell me that if the local crack house was given a 24 hour heads-up to flush the drugs down the toilet, you don't think they were selling narcotics there???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Of course we can't find the WMDs
Saddam had about ten years to hide them.

DORKS in the media.
DORKS in politics.

I guess the metrosexual-fashionable thing to do now is take down George W. Bush with your poison pen.



11 posted on 02/10/2004 8:28:35 AM PST by fishtank
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To: rmgb
Ritter is a pedophile. Nothing a pedophile ever says should be believed.
12 posted on 02/10/2004 8:30:00 AM PST by Bikers4Bush (Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Write in Tancredo in 04'!)
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To: rmgb
Yawn. More Hackworth self-promotion.

In other words, "Those flat-Earth believers were actually correct, because from where they stood the Earth really was flat."

13 posted on 02/10/2004 8:30:35 AM PST by martin_fierro (Shhh. Navel contemplation in progress)
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To: Semper Paratus
Yes, money... I think it was $400,000 that Ritter got to do a pro-Iraq movie from an "Iraqi businessman who supported Saddam". Something like that. Ritter admits it and admits the man is connected to Saddam, but insists that the money had absolutely nothing to do with changing his view of Saddam from negative to positive.
14 posted on 02/10/2004 8:31:44 AM PST by Tamzee (EARTH FIRST!!! We'll stripmine the other planets later...)
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To: rmgb
Ritter, the United Nations' chief weapons inspector in Iraq until 1998, took us all on – virtually alone, against incredible odds – stating, "Iraq is not a threat to the U.S." and begging the American people to take charge and not "sit back and allow your government to go to war against Iraq ...

Kerry/Ritter

15 posted on 02/10/2004 8:32:46 AM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (I don't believe anything a Democrat says. Bill Clinton set the standard!)
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To: rmgb
There is only one question that has to be answered. Is Iraq, the middle east, the United States and the rest of the world better off today with Saddam removed from power or not? Hack and the rest of the naysayers fail to inform everyone that the WMD that we are talking about could be stored in anyone's two-car garage in a country the size of California. And if Saddam did not have the WMD and the means to produce them on very short notice why would he refuse to reveal them or lack of rather than have his country invaded and himself removed. I don't know about "Hack" but I feel a heck of a lot better with Saddam removed than not. Of course for those who don't already know this, "Hack" was against us going to Iraq in the first place. This article, I believe, is nothing more than sour milk. Semper Fi, Kelly
16 posted on 02/10/2004 8:33:21 AM PST by kellynla ("C" 1/5 1st Mar. Div. U.S.M.C. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi!)
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To: fishtank; Brad's Gramma
bumpbumpbumpbumpbump!
17 posted on 02/10/2004 8:33:30 AM PST by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: mewzilla
And/or kiddie porn...

That too. :)
18 posted on 02/10/2004 8:34:01 AM PST by MamaLucci (Free The Judiciary Committee Memos!)
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To: rmgb
Ritter, the United Nations' chief weapons inspector in Iraq until 1998, took us all on – virtually alone, against incredible odds – stating, "Iraq is not a threat to the U.S." and begging the American people to take charge and not "sit back and allow your government to go to war against Iraq ...

Bush did not say Iraq was a threat to the US, Bush wanted to act before Iraq became a threat to the US. Bush also wanted to enforce the peace agreement and the UN resolutions. Bush wanted to rid the Iraqi people of a ruthless dictator who killed his people and supported terrorists. The war was not about an imminent threat from WMD. The war was about the larger war on terrorism. Don't let the terrorist-loving american-hating liberals redefine the war.

19 posted on 02/10/2004 8:37:05 AM PST by Always Right
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To: Tamsey
"I think it was $400,000 that Ritter got to do a pro-Iraq movie from an "Iraqi businessman who supported Saddam" Ritter actually received $875K for the movie. Amazing what propaganda costs today.
20 posted on 02/10/2004 8:37:25 AM PST by kellynla ("C" 1/5 1st Mar. Div. U.S.M.C. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi!)
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