Posted on 01/16/2003 7:09:03 PM PST by Sparta
Funny, I don't recall any fanatical, maniacal, virgin-seeking, suicidal Buddist murdering thousands of Americans. Did I miss something?
MR. RITTER: Mr. Chairman, members of the committee; last week I resigned my position out of frustration that the United Nations Security Council, and the United States as its most significant supporter, was failing to enforce the post-Gulf War resolutions designed to disarm Iraq. I can speak to you today from firsthand experience about the effectiveness of American policy or lack thereof, with respect to the United Nations's effort to rid Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction. I sincerely hope that my actions might help to change things.
It was very sad to hear the secretary of State on Tuesday night giving an interview from Moscow challenging my credentials. She told the world through CNN that Scott Ritter doesn't have a clue about what our overall policy has been, that we are the foremost supporters of UNSCOM. I do have a clue, in fact several, all of which indicate that our government has clearly expressed its policy in one way and then acted in another. Such clues include various statements by the secretary of State, a report to Congress on 6 April by the president of the United States and several statements made to me and to other UNSCOM officials at a variety of inter-agency briefings held at the State Department, the Pentagon and the White House. If these were the only clues, the administration's record would be impressive. However, I can say without fear of contradiction and with the confidence that most of my former colleagues agree with me that those clues derive from the practical experience obtained on the ground in Iraq and behind the scenes at the United Nations tell another story: that the United States has undermined UNSCOM's efforts through interference and manipulation, usually coming from the highest levels of the administration's national security team, to include the secretary of State herself.
Iraq today is not disarmed, and remains an ugly threat to its neighbors and to world peace. Those American who think that this is important and that something should be done about it have to be deeply disappointed in our leadership. I'm here today to provide you with specific details about the scope and nature of interference by this administration in UNSCOM, the debilitating effect that such interference has on the ability of UNSCOM to carry out its disarmament mission in Iraq and to appeal to the administration and to the Senate to work together to change America's Iraq policy back to what has been stated in the past: full compliance with the provisions of Security Council resolutions, to include enabling UNSCOM to carry out its mission of disarmament in an unrestricted, unhindered fashion. Only through the reestablishment of such a policy, clearly stated and resolutely acted upon, does the United States have a chance of resuming its leadership role in overseeing the effective and verifiable disarmament of Iraq so that neither we nor Iraq's neighbors in the Middle East will be threatened by Saddam Hussein's nuclear, chemical or biological weapons or long-range ballistic missiles capable of delivering such weapons. Within the confines of the need to protect the sources and methods used by the special commission to gather relevant information, I am prepared to give you whatever details I can so you will understand why I gave up such an interesting, challenging and meaningful position in which I had hoped to have the chance to contribution to making the world a little safer. Thank you.
Definitely well worth the investment.
And probably much cheaper than the TUMS and barf bags needed to suffer through the SoreLoserman BS that was being spewed all over the liberal networks.
I thank God everyday for the self control not to throw a brick through my TV.
I suspect you missed everything. Best wishes.
Did you read what I wrote? It is because they/us have declared their/our WMD. This is called a deterent.
It is Saddam, the lunatic, who keeps denying he has them, or is making them (and we know he has them/is making them) who is the biggest threat. The reason he denys is because he will use them against us.
Absolutely hilarious--first Ritter said his own words were "inflammatory," then Ritter trotted out his war record (it's part of his talking points, dontcha know)--to a general. That alone had me on the floor laughing. then the good general looks at Ritter like a bug & says, "You've got loose lips, son," then Greta cuts off his mike.
I don't know if this was on Greta or when he was on MSNBC, but he chanted that the rockets were "expired." How does he know that?
Check posting #81, #102, #105. Also if I remember at the beginning of this thread there is a picture of him on Fox News. He is the heavy set one.
Why would you automatically assume that UnBlinkingEye is in a constant state of sight?
I'm convinced that the eyes are always closed, and, only if they blink, does UBE see the light, or anything else for that matter, albeit, for only a fraction of a second........
but then again, the opertative word is UnBlinking....
The more I learn about Scott Ritter, The more I think the man is a Major League Tin-Foiler whose elevator doesn't reach the top floor
Your not the only one who noticed.
Thats what happens when you live high on the hog. :-)
Shortly after his testimony in 1998, he and his wife were investigated because of her ties to the former Soviet Union
They particularly need to hear that Pitt has put in print that the bomb which killed our Marines in Beirut was sent to the Middle East by Reagan through Ollie North.
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