Posted on 09/26/2002 12:49:44 PM PDT by finnman69
Four in the morning
Crapped out
Yawning
Longing my life away
I’ll never worry
Why should I?
It’s all gonna fade
Now I sit by my window
And I watch the cars
I fear I’ll do some damage
One fine day
But I would not be convicted
By a jury of my peers
Still Crazy
Still Crazy
Still Crazy after all these years.
I thought that was rdb3's line on the techie threads :o)
You beat me to it....the only thing I'd add is that the pics involve something like this "Iraqi date night":
$400,000 in Iraqi Oil money. Personally I'd never turn myself into a raving lunatic for that amount. $4 million, maybe, but I think I'd just as soon keep my name and reputation and let Saddam keep his measly $400K. Diffrent strokes for diffrent folks though.
It blames the sanctions for Iraq's woes, not Hussein's behavior (which IS, after all, WHY the sanctions are in place).
And the question is, "Where did the moneybags guy come up with $400 kilobucks?" Most people don't have that kind of money lying around. Does this "Iraqi-American" draw a second paycheck from the Mukhbarat?
Okay, so a little compassion makes the guy a traitor.
He argues Saddam's case. He's a lying sack of fecal material.
Whatever. Flame me all you want.
No problem.
I still think the man deserves to be heard.
He's been heard. Now he needs to load-test a rope with his neck.
He quit the inspections team because it became more about espionage and less concerned with discovering what exactly Saddam had and where it was.
The latter IS the definition of espionage, idiot!
Good grief, are you a registered voter?
However, I noted that there was a constant "edge" to his voice as he talked about the USA. I interpreted it as almost a revulsion. He must have sensed it too because he felt the need to remind everyone that he had been proud to be a Marine at one time every so often.
At one part, when he stated that the UN sanctions had "cost the lives of 350,000 to 500,000 people", he stopped and repeated it several times. Slower and slower, to force everyone to concentrate on it (and perhaps believe it). The message was clear: the UN (and by proxy, the US) has somehow heartlessly killed 200 times as many Iraqi civilians as the US lost on 9/11 already. Never mind that Saddam probably spent billions on weapons and palaces that could have easily fed and treated his people.
My gut conclusion: Ritter was turned by the Iraqis.
Saddam's Trap - Why We're Doing Exactly What He Wants ( Ritter on Iraq 12/21/98 )
The answer is: He is a thin-skinned, egotistical weakling full of spite, bent on some warped sense of retaliation and seeking relevancy. Like Clinton he is willing to sell out his country to do so. For once I'm inclined to agree with Joe Biden, (did I say that?) this is all above Ritter's paygrade and he resents it. Little man, Big ego.
Uh, who the hell cares?
Baghdad Scott is a traitor, pure and simple.
He's also FOS.
Anything he says is suspect. The treasonous POS should be lined up next to the other treasonous P'sOS and shot. After a fair trial, of course.
This man is not relevant to anything.
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