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If the inferiority complex is your unconfirmed hunch then why did you mention it at all? And apparantly you have no evidence that he is a traitor except for his trip to Iraq that the Iraqi government paid for. But I think there's more and you need to do more homework.

His speech there as excerpted on various websites was primarily to urge the assembly to reallow weapons inspections. But he has also admitted that the U.S. used inspections to spy on Iraq. In admitting that, did he hand over secret information to a foreign power? Maybe you should investigate that for your next column.

Slow down a minute:

1) I haven't ever said Scott Ritter was a traitor.

2) I haven't ever said Scott Ritter was on the Iraqi payroll.

3) I have said the inferiority complex thing was just a hunch; and I have said that's why I've never put it into a column.

4) I mentioned the hunch in the first place because one tends to think and act on his own, without seeking approval from other readers at Free Republic before discussing a hunch. No one but you took it seriously. But look: the more thoroughly he's dismissed, the louder he gets. Doesn't that suggest anything to you? I suppose you thought Napoleon didn't have a complex?

5) I believe my entire next column is going to be about people who cannot understand my columns as written, and then suggest I've said things I haven't.

6) I would certainly hope the United States used weapons inspections to spy on Iraq; everything that country does is suspect. A document of surrender at the end of a war isn't a list of suggestions, it's a declaration of dominance. What I can't figure out is why, once the inspectors were kicked out, they didn't return the next week with tanks to let themselves in.

7) The day I take column suggestions into consideration, I retire.