[Fred Mertz]

If not, his [Ritter] true motivations should be known. There is no time for him to speak out like the present; dissent can be tolerated, pandering to the enemy cannot.

Ritter continues to puzzle me especially since he was a US Marine. I was hoping you'd come to a clear conclusion in your well written essay, but you left me hanging.

[Benrand]

I was sitting around thinking about this guy and I am considering the possibility that he is some sort of Trojan horse or some sort of foil planted in Iraq for the US to distance itself from and ultimately disprove.

I had ingested a couple of Ketel One's and cranberry at that time...but he is a wierd cat.

[Brian Allen]

<< ... Ritter ... outrage: ..... dissent can be tolerated, pandering to the enemy cannot. >>

What's it to be Mr Ritter?

Inside your payscale or outside? [The pale]

You have precisely fifteen minutes from ........ NOW!

Bump Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

Scott who???

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Scott Ritter is not irrelevant.

He is a traitor.

He deserves the full penalty of his crimes.

[big bad easter bunny]

My guess is blackmail.

[expatpat]

I understand that Ritter received $400K from Iraq to make a movie about the weapons inspections.
This might explain it, if true.

[palmer]

So the choices are: he's a traitor on Saddam's payroll or he has an inferiority complex and a desire for the spotlight. Do you have evidence for either of those theories?

[doug from upland]

This is great. "Brockian" is now an adjective.

[Wil H]

The one essential element missing from this otherwise interesting analysis is that Scott Ritter, a low paid former civil servant, is $400,000 better off than he was four years ago.

Think that might have anything to do with it?

[The Great Satan]

Soldiers like Scott Ritter and Timothy McVeigh are nothing new in history. The preening, self-regarding hero comes home and finds himself a nobody, and turns on his old comrades in arms. That's the story of Ajax. It's as old as Homer.

[freethinkingman]

Like Scotty boys boss from those days has said:

"He's either lying to us now or he was lying to us then".

[Moosefart]

Scott has lost it, he's a ............

[carton253]

Scott Ritter became a very hot property

Exactly! And it seems to me that he is loving every minute of it.

[hosepipe]

Well written Brian....
Have you considered this article by Pat Buchannon.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/748951/posts

[N. Theknow]

Ritter is being blackmailed. He secretly had an operation that rendered him capable of dating Janet Reno and Hillary.

[MEGoody]

"If not, his [Ritter] true motivations should be known."

Follow the money.

[daniel boob]

To the second question, one assumes Ritter’s new basis of knowledge comes either from the Iraqis themselves, or is simply a visceral, contrary reaction to a power he doesn’t trust (that being the United States government).

Man, this is where I'm lost. This morning, I was wondering how much closer to a line of treason he was willing to step. Do you have any idea? I mean, the guy talks to the Daquiri's! It seems he isn't going to backdown from continuing to bitch about the US approach of eradicating Saddam.

Well written essay. Keep it up.