Christopher Hitchens To Take On Scott Ritter

Hitchens Web ^ | 11/25/05 | Christopher Hitchens

[Libertarian Jim]

Hitchens debates Scott Ritter on the Iraq War - 12/20/2005, 7:00 pm, at the Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown, NY Moderated by Laura Flanders. (Metronorth (Hudson Line) gets one from Grand Central Station to the Tarrytown stop in 40 minutes. From there it's an 8 minute walk up the hill to the Tarrytown Music Hall and Metronorth will have trains returning to Manhattan after the debate)

[martin_fierro]

[God luvs America]

I am 15 minutes from it by car...anyone interested in a Freep against Ritter the pedophile??

[Libertarian Jim]

I hope C-Span covers it...it should be a free-for-all.

[steveyp]

Not a fair fight. Ritter is pathetic.

[MJY1288]

Scott Ritter should be in the cage next to Saddam on Monday.

Scott is a very disturbed man, and a Traitor

[Cacique]

btt

[Just mythoughts]

Thank you so much for this post. Now why is Ritter NOT required to register as a 'sex offender', and what is so special about this case to get it sealed? And with all that we know thus far how was Ritter able to play so far out there on the fringe of things?

Given what we have seem come out of the CIA of years past, I do not think Ritter is the only one that has some explaining to do.

I look forward to see what if anything Hitchens can draw out of Scott, as much as Hitchens beating Ritter. Hopefully Hitchens will approach this in that manner.

[Peach]

I can't wait to hear the results of this debate. The child abuser Ritter doesn't stand a chance.

[Eastbound]

Ritter is extremely fluent and pursuasive . . . at least when he's not being faced down. Should be interesting. In light of the ongoing revelations of WMD's, I'm surprised he would even stick his nose out of the dumpster these days.

He was for WMD's one day and agin' 'em the next. Flip-flopped faster than the Kerryster. Musta had something to do with his Iraqi 'angel', I'll bet'cha -- the one who hired him to do a puff piece.

"Ritter accepted $400,000 in funding two years ago from an Iraqi-American businessman named Shakir al-Khafaji. Ritter used the money to visit Baghdad and film a documentary purporting to tell the true story of the weapons inspections."

Link for the above quote:

www.slate.com/id/2071502

[pookie18]

Thanks...will rerun in Today's Toons 11/29/05.

[perfect stranger]

You're welcome.

I enjoy your threads so much that I'd feel guilty if I didn't try to help when I can.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I've thought all along that when he got mad at the Clinton CIA over the eavesdropping fiasco that he allowed Saddam to buy him off. After all the Oil for Food stuff came out, I was more convinced than ever.

He was too hot to trot during the runup to the war to convince people the President was wrong about Iraq. I, for one, still think there was WMD's and they were taken to Syria.

[Libertarian Jim]

His story is indeed a strange one. He came out of the gate looking like a contrarian against the Hans Blix's of the world and then he turned around on a dime. Weird.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Too big a turnaround for my taste; and when he went to Baghdad and made his speech shortly before the war I was even more convinced something was not right. Sure would love to see this debate, Hitchens is much smarter than Ritter and can be every bit as testy when he wants.

[beckett]

First reaction: Good.

On reflection though, I'm not so sure Hitchens should dignify Ritter by treating him as an equal. Ritter is a clown. Hitchens, for all his faults, is a serious man.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Good thing Hitchens doesn't have a daughter. Scott might want to take her to Burger King.

[cgbg]

My theory is that Ritter was being blackmailed and bribed (stick and carrot) by the Iraqis.

If they caught him near an Iraqi little girl he would have had to cooperate--or else.

[cgbg]

Ritter's stunning about-face is comparable to the David Brock episode.

Both seem to involve sexual activities (in the enemy camp?) and then a sudden conversion from right to left.

[Sioux-san]

Absolutely right - Ritter is a useless traitor and there's no two ways about it. There was a six month period before the shooting war began giving Saddam and his French, German and Russian collaborators plenty of time to remove as much evidence as possible. They were all trying to buy time, and I am sure W was fully aware of all that. If our satellites weren't fixed on Iraq during that period, then someone in the CIA needs to be in prison for gross criminal negligence. All that said, WMDs have been found in Iraq in great quantities. However, we haven't found any fully assembled ticking A-bombs. I guess that is the only type of WMD that would impress the Lefties now. Bottomline is that the Enemy Within has a moving target of criticism. No matter what is done or not done by Bush, he will be wrong and evil. These people scare me much more than Al-Qaeda because they and the MSM actually do have experience in weakening our country's resolve to survive.

[chiefqc]

That will happen only if they can drag scottie out of burger king.