Posted on 01/28/2005 9:12:22 AM PST by Mikey_1962
By any standard, the ongoing American occupation of Iraq is a disaster.
The highly vaunted US military machine, laurelled and praised for its historic march on Baghdad in March and April of 2003, today finds itself a broken force, on the defensive in a land that it may occupy in part, but does not control.
The all-out offensive to break the back of the resistance in Falluja has failed, leaving a city destroyed by American firepower, and still very much in the grips of the anti-American fighters.
The same is true of Mosul, Samarra, or any other location where the US military has undertaken "decisive" action against the fighters, only to find that, within days, the fighting has returned, stronger than ever.
And yet, it now appears as if the United States, in an effort to take the offensive against the fighters in Iraq, is prepared to compound its past mistakes in Iraq by embarking on a new course of action derived from some of the darkest, and most embarrassing moments of America's modern history.
According to press accounts, the Pentagon is considering the organisation, training and equipping of so-called death squads, teams of Iraqi assassins who would be used to infiltrate and eliminate the leadership of the Iraqi resistance.
Called the Salvador Option, in reference to similar US-backed death squads that terrorised the population of El Salvador during the 1980s, the proposed plan actually has as its roots the Phoenix assassination programme undertaken during the Vietnam war, where American-led assassins killed thousands of known or suspected Vietcong collaborators.
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Anyone hear about unrest in Falluja in the MSM lately? Didn't think so. If Falluja was still a major battleground, the news would be trumpeting that info daily.
Ritter was on Saddam's payroll before he started cruising the internet for little girls. Whenever he shouts "I was a Marine!" on the radio, I just shout back "so was Oswald".
Who the hell hires this guy and for what?
And give me one good reason why we should listen to this pedophile...
Hard to do better in the Annals of Evil than apologist for a tyrant and convicted of attempted child molestation.
He wants the teenage girl option.
Get Scott some wine and a blowup doll.
throw him in a SF bathhouse and call it a day.......
Of course, what he said about Iraq and WMDs- that there weren't any there -- turned out to be true. So, of course, let's not listen to him.
I wonder if Scotty "Pervs For Peace" Ritter's been subpoenaed yet on Oil For Food?
Since the Bush administration itself now says, in effect, that Ritter was right -- no WMDs in Iraq -- I suspect Ritter may be rather marketable as an analyst.
El Salvador is now a Democratic Republic, so I don't know what Ritter is trying to say.
On the Credibility Scale Scott is posting a negative 5 I'd guess.
ppppssssssssssssst scott ritter, the shia's are already using snipers lots are working for security for the elections.
I thought we shut this fugger up when he was busted for trying to pick up underage girls at bk TWICE!
This "American" was the Chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1999 ? No wonder they couldn't find anything. Somebody needs to check this traitors financial records.
Monday, January 26, 2004 Posted: 10:55 AM EST (1555 GMT)
(CNN) -- Two days after resigning as the Bush administration's top weapons inspector in Iraq, David Kay said Sunday that his group found no evidence Iraq had stockpiled unconventional weapons before the U.S.-led invasion in March.
He said U.S. intelligence services owe President Bush an explanation for having concluded that Iraq had.
"My summary view, based on what I've seen, is we're very unlikely to find large stockpiles of weapons," he said on National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition." "I don't think they exist."
It was the consensus among the intelligence agencies that Iraq had such weapons that led Bush to conclude that it posed an imminent threat that justified the U.S.-led invasion, Kay said.
"I actually think the intelligence community owes the president rather than the president owing the American people," he said.
"We have to remember that this view of Iraq was held during the Clinton administration and didn't change in the Bush administration," Kay said.
"It is not a political 'gotcha' issue. It is a serious issue of 'How you can come to a conclusion that is not matched in the future?'"
Other countries' intelligence agencies shared the U.S. conclusion that Iraq had stockpiled such weapons, though most disagreed with the United States about how best to respond.
He was accused of child molestation. If he had been convicted, he'd be in jail right now.
OF COURSE, RITTER TOLD THEM THERE WEREN'T WMDs THERE -- SO I COULD UNDERSTAND IF THERE ARE COMPANIES THAT WOULD WANT TO HIRE HIM; ON IRAQ, HE GOT THE RIGHT ANSWER BEFORE MOST OF US INTELLIGENCE DID
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