Scott Ritter: US Wants Iran Regime Change

DowJones ^ | 11/23/03 | DowJones

[freedom44]

PRAGUE (AP)--A former U.N. weapons inspector said Saturday that Washington seems to be questioning the credibility of the U.N. atomic agency in an attempt to achieve in Iran what it has already carried out in Iraq: regime change.

Scott Ritter, a former U.S. Marine, was a weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998. He has been a vocal critic of U.S. President George W. Bush's policy on Iraq.

Friday, the U.S. questioned the credibility of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency for failing to conclude that Iran has pursued a nuclear weapons program, as Washington believes it has. Washington softened its initial remarks later in the day.

Ritter said that the agency - which carried out inspections in prewar Iraq, where it never found any evidence of a nuclear arms program -"did a fairly professional and responsible job in dealing with Iraq."

"There's no reason to doubt that the (agency) would be any less professional and responsible in dealings with Iran," Ritter told The Associated Press following a speech in the Czech capital.

Ritter said he believed the U.S. would continue to put pressure on the IAEA so it would issue reports that back up the U.S. position.

If the agency fails to comply, then the U.S. "will denigrate the work of the IAEA and move forward unilaterally," he said.

Ritter said the U.S. wants the issue to be transferred to the U.N. Security Council "to create a perception of threat to international peace and security."

"The policy of the United States is to achieve regime change in Iran - the president has made it very clear," he said.

At a key meeting in Vienna on Friday, the agency's director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, said his experts had found "no evidence" of a weapons program and that more time and inspections are needed to determine whether Iran is truthful in saying it is using nuclear technology only to produce electricity.

Washington then accused him of playing down evidence that Iran has tried to build nuclear weapons over the past 18 years.

[freedom44]

No **** Sherlock!

[doug from upland]

Anyone who values human freedom wants regime change in Iran. How much blackmail does someone have on pervert Scotty?

[petercooper]

under what rock did this guy crawl out from?

[xrp]

aren't Scott Ritter's 15 minutes of fame up?

[Pan_Yans Wife]

He's trying to regain his importance. Jackson has him bumped off the front page.

[zook]

And the reason anyone should care what this guy thinks is....? Scott Ritter's proper "pay level" is a stock boy at Staples.

[eleni121]

This pervert was invited to speak to the following:

American Voices Abroad Prague in cooperation with the Czech Peace Society.

[lawdude]

Ritter is trying to get a job holding the towel for Michael J.

[freedom44]

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

First non lie to cross lance corporal special sauce in years.

[OldFriend]

Perhaps Ritter can go live in Neverland with his fellow pedophile.

Frankly, I have no interest whatsoever in his comments

[Kewlhand`tek]

so whats up with his charges of picking up underage girls, maybe flyers in towns where he intends to speak should be placed

[ChadGore]

Scott Ritter: US Wants Iran Regime Change

Scott: So does every freedom loving person of conscience who is againt to theocratic tyrany.

[Valin]

"The policy of the United States is to achieve regime change in Iran - the president has made it very clear," he said.

And people say Scott Ritter is dumber than a post! Well let me tell you he's every bit the intellectual equal of any post I've ever seen. And smarter than at least 40% of them!

[esopman]

"How much blackmail does someone have on pervert Scotty?"

You nailed it. That is the $400,000 question and there are a lot of other questions besides "Isn't his 10 minutes of fame over yet...?"

1. Is Scott still married to his second wife, the Russian interpreter from the Georgia area, Marina?

2. Why has nobody looked at the Russian connection? Specifically, the Putin crowd did not want the US in Iraq uncovering all manner of Russkoye zlodeystvo, upsetting their oil and other contracts, etc....and Scott did a 180 after dumping wife #1 for #2.

3. Why don't the elite media expose this deviant, compromised, traitorous Bush-hater for what he is....uhhh, never mind.

[mylife]

Scott Ritter: US Wants Iran Regime Change

Gee Scott you really are a rocket scientist! Hey...I'll let you in on a secret.....the Iranian people want regime change too!

[cajungirl]

Hey, regime change in Iran sounds pretty good to me.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

STOP THE PRESSES!!!! The U.S. Government has only been saying this since about 1980. Breaking news, for sure.

[Lancey Howard]

Scott "Michael Jackson" Ritter is still around?

[temijin]

my big fear is that they "WILL" do as good a job as they did in iraq.