Who are the former inspectors? Is Richard Boucher one of them, and did they really say that Ritter is a liar? I hope someone hands that backstabbing, treacherous a-hole his head one day soon. This latest stunt of his...speaking in Iraq...borders on treason. I put him right up there with Hanoi Jane.
Please don't ever apologise again for bringing up breaking news. I hope no one reading this thread ever does either. This is what makes this forum great. Good work! Hope it is in the 'breaking news' side bar. Freegards....
I.E., the threat is imminent...
"Saddam, the tribe has spoken. It's time for you to go."
Scott RAILED against the UN and the klinton administration for not supporting the efforts of the investigators.
I remember joey biden, the pompous rather stupid dem senator really putting Scott down...saying "you DON't RIDE in LIMOS and make policy....you are out of line making such comments" or words to that effect. Scott was mocked by biden and a few others and you could see the anger boiling within Scott's self.
Scott's flip flop is strange and scary. And dangerous. But joey biden and other sick dems shoudl KNOW that their treatment of him may have encouraged Scott to go over the edge. Seriously.
I was HOPING that Brit Hume, Hannity and COlmes, O'Reilly and Rush would be playing the tapes from CSPAN library of Scott's time before the senatorial panel-it was, frankly, amazing.
I am so glad to learn that other, still patriotic investigators are now making the case Scott was, at one time, making himself.
I loved the way that the older bioweapons expert guy, sorry can't remember his name, put that loud mouthed (D) in his place toward the end.
He said "What makes us so sure that Iraq hasn't already used BW against us?". He then said " We still haven't figured out the source of the Anthrax last year and Iraq CERTAINLY had the capability to make Anthrax of that quality".
MKM
My favorite part was the Dem (a blonde female) from California saying that China, Russia, and FRANCE are simply "appeasers" of saddam, and on thurs. Pres. Bush should call them out to his "woodshed". She also said Pres. Bush made it clear after 9-11 how to find out who our friends and enemies are, and now we need to find out who is "with us" and who isn't.
I stood up in front of the T.V. and applauded her comments.
Ritter's Condemnation
"I fought in the [Gulf] war. Americans died in the war. I was told by my government in April 1991, in a UN Security Council resolution the United States sponsored, that Iraq was going to disarm. ... I've poured my heart and soul into disarming Iraq, and this means I was wasting my time. It means we lost the Gulf War. ... The whole world should be shamed by this."
Scott Ritter, ex-chief UN inspector tracking down Iraqi arms, in a Washington Post interview published Aug. 27, 1998--a day after he resigned to protest US efforts to interfere with planned inspections.
Biden's Wisdom ...
"[I]n terms of whether the secretary of state has no more to consider than you do as the arms inspector-you didn't get in, 'Didn't get my job done; get me in! ... Scott Ritter, I'm ready to go!' That's not how it works. ... I respectfully suggest, Scott-Major-I respectfully suggest they have responsibilities slightly above your pay grade ... to decide whether to take the nation to war. That's a real tough decision. That's why they get paid the big bucks. That's why they get the limos and you don't. ... Their job is a hell of a lot more complicated than yours."
Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), in a Sept. 3, 1998, Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, held to examine Ritter's charges about Administration duplicity.