Scott Ritter Lying Through His Teeth On FOX Live

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[Howlin]

So did I!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

...getting him mixed up with Clinton!

Didn't take long for someone to call me on that one.

[Patriotic Bostonian]

Rush mentioned Ritter the other day and said to follow the money. He said Ritter is being financed by someone in Iraq to produce a documentary on Iraq.

[hellinahandcart]

"Medea Benjamin" alert for you...

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Sept. 11 Events Calling for "No More Victims"

WASHINGTON - September 4 - Many communities throughout the United States and the world are planning events to honor the people who were killed in the Sept. 11 attacks. The following organizers, seeking to help create a world with "no more victims," are available for interviews:

• DAVID POTORTI, david@peacefultomorrows.org, www.peacefultomorrows.org
  David Potorti, who lost his brother James at the World Trade Center, said today: "Victims of terrorism and war -- from Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel and the Palestinian territories, the Philippines and Japan -- will join family members of Sept. 11 victims for a joint speaking tour in the days immediately before and after Sept. 11, 2002. The 'No More Victims' tour, co-sponsored by September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows and the American Friends Service Committee, hopes to place the human dimension of the 9-11 attacks and of war at the center of the national debate over the 'war against terrorism'.... By putting a human face on the casualties of terrorism and war, we hope to demonstrate the price of responding to violence with violence. The true cost of the U.S. war on terror, in human terms, is reflected in the experiences of these people, leading them to seek alternatives." Peaceful Tomorrows members available for interviews include Talat Hamdani, a Pakistani-American woman who endured rumors that her son was a terrorist after he disappeared on Sept. 11. His remains were later found at the World Trade Center site, where it is thought he rushed to try to save people with his skills as a trained emergency technician. [Joseph Gerson is director of programs at the AFSC in New England. He can be reached at: jgerson@afsc.org, www.afsc.org.]

• MEDEA BENJAMIN, medea@globalexchange.org, www.unitedforpeace.org
  A founder of United for Peace, a coalition of groups, Benjamin said today: "In over 100 U.S. cities, as well as nearly a dozen foreign countries, people are honoring those who died on Sept. 11 by calling for no more innocent victims."

• KATHY KELLY, kkelly@igc.org, www.iraqpeaceteam.org
  Kelly is coordinator of Voices in the Wilderness, a humanitarian relief group. She and other members of the group have been on a 40-day fast at the UN headquarters in Manhattan, calling for a nonviolent foreign policy. They will break their fast on Sept. 10 at 11 a.m. with symbolic servings of embargoed Iraqi dates. The group has openly violated the economic sanctions on Iraq by taking medicine there without U.S. government approval. Two participants in the fast, Henry Williamson (from Charleston, S.C.) and Cynthia Banas (from Verona, N.Y.), are then planning to go to Iraq; they intend to stay through any massive U.S. assault on Iraq.

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[Howlin]

Let me add to that:

Scott Ritter left the inspection team for "personal reasons" he's never defined.

He applied for a job with the CIA but was rejected when he FAILED the polygraph test and the FBI background check.

[Shermy]

What we really know, as opposed to all these bozos who get on this forum and get emotional about the subject is this:

You included?

You fall for the "former marine" business, like that precludes him from being a nut. In fact, this is an important point to understand why he turned.

He was upset with the way inspections were going. I found him persuasive in this regard. But so what? That was 1998 - why did he do a 180 on whether Saddam had MWD or not? The two are not logically dependent on each other.

The whole "spying" thing is nonsense - pretextual agitprop created by Saddam's people to interfere with inspections. Of course they were trying to make a case against Saddam - isn't it obvious he was hiding something? And assume there was "spying." What would that fact have to do with the fact that Ritter did a 180 on the existence of MWD and Saddam's capacity (not to mention will) to increase that capacity? Answer = nothing.

All Saddam's smoke and mirrors. It's a joke anyway that a team of inspectors could find everything in a country the size of Texas.

[justshe]

Yes......and have emailed to comments@foxnews.com my praise for Asman!

[hellinahandcart]

Am I talking to myself here? The PEACENIKS paid for Ritter's trip to Iraq. That means they KNEW what side he was going to take in advance--theirs.

[Wingsofgold]

You just DAMNED everybody on this thread and you wanna talk about personal attacks. Sessh. SPEAKING of PERSONAL ATTACKS, heads up kids. Somebody is tryin to do a NETBIOS attack on my computer. Hehehee. Guess I'll hafta take the time to go see who.

[SunnyUsa]

"Does a patriot drag another man's reputation through the mud ? "

I agree! Plus I think he disgraces MARINES everywhere when he tries to hide behind his service as if that would EXCUSE what he's been doing with our enemy who wants to kill us.

[TC Rider]

Just a thought, but is it possible that Ritter left behind a 'love child' or other such hostage?

[Shermy]

Thanks!

Medea Benjaming- "With a name like Medea, you know she must be evil."

[YaYa123]

As suggested on the other thread, please email FOXNews and give David Asman a well deserved "attaboy".

comments@foxnews.com

This interview was the best I've seen in ages. Asman didn't let any lie go unchallenged....Ritter was sweating bullets, and was even reduced to touting his resume as arguments. "I'm a patriot", "I was a Marine for 12 years".

Asman kicked butt today!

[Cyber Liberty]

I want to go on record that, even though we seem to share the last name, I am no relation to that poster....

[carton253]

During the interview, he said, "nuclear weapons, no way."

In 1998 he wrote: Meanwhile, Iraq has kept its entire nuclear weapons infrastructure intact through dual-use companies that allow the nuclear-design teams to conduct vital research and practical work on related technologies and materials, Iraq still has components (high-explosive lenses, initiators, and neutron generators) for up to four nuclear devices minus the fissle core (highly enriched uranium or plutonium), as well as the means to produce these.

So, if Mr. Ritter hasn't talked to anyone in intelligence for four years (his claim), what has changed his mind. Either he was lying in 1998 or he is lying now.

Furthermore, his dispute with Mr. Butler comes down to this... "I wrote Mr. Butler 4 memo's warning him about the dangers of spying... and he ignored me." So, Mr. Butler didn't listen to Mr. Ritter. Is that because Mr. Butler was spying, or because Mr. Ritter was wrong about Mr. Butler being a spy?

Mr. Ritter offered no proof of his claims. He said that he just knew Iraq wasn't a danger.

[Howlin]

Nobody would EVER make that mistake, I'm telling you that for SURE.

[js1138]

The spying charge amazes me. If we trusted Saddam there'd be no reason for inspections. If we don't trust him, we have to dig around looking for what he's hiding. Of course we're spying. That's what inspection is.

[RS]

You could be right -

If this guy is so trusting of Iraq now,
I wonder just how good a job he did when he was over there "inspecting" ?

[Conservative4Ever]

What an interview..yikes...not my words, but maybe appropriate in this case... FOLLOW THE MONEY

Red

[1L]

Do me a favor. I haven't kept up with Scott Ritter much, so when I hear "he's contridicting himself" etc., I'm not sure what ya'll are referring to. I vaguely remember him when he got kicked out of Iraq saying they still had weapons they are working on and concealing. What is/has he been saying lately? Paraphrase OK. Thanks!