[11th Earl of Mar]

I thought Scott Ritter was considered "the dud heard round the world."

[dangus]

Anyone else wondering WTF Scott Ritter is doing writing in Pravda?

[dead]

Ritter has a hard time getting too excited about anything that's more than fifteen years old.

[Always Right]

If a pedophile speaks and no one listens, did he really make a noise?

[Bikers4Bush]

Is ritter still molesting little girls or has he moved on to little boys?

[keithtoo]

Do you know how Scott Ritter goes fishing?

He puts a Barbie doll on the end of a line and hides in the bushes.

[The South Texan]

Ritter writing for Pravda?

LMAO!!!!!!!

[Arrowhead1952]

Three thing in life are inevitable, taxes, death and libs cannot handle the truth.

[xzins]

There are a gazillion rounds in 120 unsurveyed asps around the country.

Ritter said there "might be" 10 lying as duds on a range someplace near baghdad.


Now....the probable source....

Muhammed: Yo, Ismail, Do I want to blow up americans with this dud lying on the ground that probably doesn't work?

Ismail: Mohammed, what a great idea! We have a gazillion live rounds in bunkers all over the country, but let's take this stray dud and use it instead.

Muhammed: Inch Allah, Ismail. By the way, what's that sloshing sound?

[mass55th]

"But I've always contended that Iraq is a WMD archaeological site, and that if one digs long enough, vestiges of these past WMD programs will be uncovered."

Sure Scott, I can see the terrorists digging holes to China just to see if they can find a chemical bomb or two to use against coalition forces.

Sure it's an archaeological site, but the holes should be filled with the bones of those on Saddam's money kick-back list...starting with Ritter.

[tbeatty]

Except for one thing, Scott....Iraq said all 150 were destroyed to comply with the cease fire and UN resolutions. It didn't say 10% were duds lying in the desert. Did you think of this when you were in Iraq and start scouring the desert? What other kinds of duds are out there? Why wasn't it the Mustard gas shells that were used in Iran-Iraq war since there must be thousands or tens of thousands of those duds lying around. 10% duds lying in the desert with all those terrorist training camps is a direct threat to the United States both at home and abroad.

Scott, your team did not find all the WMD's in Iraq and our troops are risking their lives everyday because of this failure.

[bmwcyle]

Dating 14 year old girls. How much more a dud is that.

[OldFriend]

Why this man is given any credibility is beyond me. Count on him to show up on H&C to espouse his theories.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Scott Ritter's... *ahem*... "girlfriend" ponders their future life together, once she's finished fingerpainting for today and taken a nap. :)

[ElectricStrawberry]

If the 155-mm shell was a "dud" fired long ago - which is highly likely - then it would not be evidence of the secret stockpile of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that the Bush administration used as justification to invade Iraq.

His entire argument is based on a BIG "if". He doesn't even show how it's highly likely that the round was a "dud"....unless he believes the information he received from the Iraqis.

Maybe he asked Bagdad Bob.

[reagan_fanatic]

I wish someone would blindfold Scott Ritter, put a panty on his head, attach electrodes to his hands, feet and genitalia and make him stand on top of a small box for a few days.

[midwestmidnight]

Scott Ritter was found to be a dud in Burger King's parking lot. He claimed that he wanted to be a "Weapon of Ass Destruction."

[CMAC51]

If the 155-mm shell was a "dud" fired long ago - which is highly likely

A completely bogus statement by someone with enough knowledge to know better. Sarin has a shelf life of about 3 weeks once the two components are mixed. If the shell was fired long ago, the contents would have been inert by this time. This was a binary shell designed to mix the components after the shell was fired.

Sadaam never declared having this type of shell and UN inspectors had previously indicated that Sadaams chemical shells required mixing the two components prior to firing the shell. This shell was more likely to have been acquired after 1996 and could not have been previously fired.

Scott Ritter knows this and is purposely providing deceptive information - AKA - lying!

[Beckwith]

THis jerk keeps reminding us he was a Marine.

However this is one Marine whose motto is not "semper fidelis" but "nunquam fidelis" (never faithful).

[Anti-Bubba182]

"..What gives away whether the shell had been fired is the base-bleed charge, which unlike the rest of the shell, will show evidence of being fired (or not).

Iraq declared that it had produced 170 of these base-bleed sarin artillery shells as part of a research and development program that never led to production. .."

Base Bleed Unit

The Base Bleed Unit generates gas that fills the vacuum behind the projectile base, reducing base drag on the fired projectile by up to 80% and increases the range of the shell. From what I could find they are detachable. If this was true of this Iraqi shell, it may be the case that the unit was not installed and would be unnecessary anyway when the shell was used as an IED.