I agree that a Ritter connection is well worth considering and posted a similar thought yesterday
BTW, anyone know if the Wilsons are chums with Scott Ritter?
And consider that Chuck Schumer and Joe Wilson are pushing to make sure Rove is unable to have access to classified material before Bolton gets a chance to "nose around" at the UN.
What will Bolton find, when he gets there?
A 1999 newsgroups discussion of Ritter's opposition to the sanctions, includes a discussion of Wilson's opposition to the sanctions and of Wilson's feeling that Saddam should be removed by bombing.
Scott Ritter Denounces the Sanctions!
[Wilson] gave a talk at the University here, and I had the opportunity to chat with him afterwards.
[Wilson] said Iraq has possibly the largest oil reserves in the world, since the proven reserves alone make it the second largest in the world. He said that Iraq has many pro western educated people and professionals. The sanctions have devastated the country, and the middle class has been wiped out. This will be bad for America in the long run. The country is getting radicalized. He said the prospect of having 22 million angry people sitting on the world's largest oil reserves frifgtens him. [Wilson] wants the sanctions removed immediately. He talked about the brutality of Saddam's regime. He also said that the US should do all it can to remove Saddam by bombing him. He didn't feel that the Iraqi opposition would have any effect.
About Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, he felt that Kuwait exacerbated the situation, and that Iraq had some genuine reasons for the invasion, such as the stealing of oil by Kuwait. Iraq lost a million men defending the Arab eastern flank against an Iranian invasion, and felt that all arab countries should contribute in helping Iraq. Kuwait had given Iraq several billion, and after the war, Kuwait wanted the money back.