Ritter needs to hook-up with Sheehan and live happily ever after in Ven. sucking on Chavez's toes.
The key to understanding Scott Ritter is to realize that everything is relative. If you are a partisan extremist on the take, then the other guys' "terrorist" is your "native... simply fighting to defend their homes."
Scotty *will indeed* get his comeuppance someday. There may not always be justice in this world, but you can't escape it in hte next.
Scott Ritter is a turd...I'll believe the other guy who speaks from his heart-the Iraqi.
Who do I believe?
The Mayor.
If I have to choose between Col. McMaster and Scotty-boy, no contest.
McMaster is a fine, courageous officer and a pretty fair historian. Scotty Ritter is, shall we say, truth-challenged. I think Ritter criticising Col. McMaster's sense of history is ridiculous, to say the least.
I submit that Col. McMasters knows far more about "history or responsibility when it comes to waging war" than does Ritter.
For one thing, McMasters IS a historian...
Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam, by H.R. McMasters.
This book, perhaps the most important book on the subject of Viet Nam and why it turned out as it did, was McMasters' graduate thesis at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Ritter is an utter fool.
That Scott Ritter has an agenda has been painfully obvious for at least five years. That this mayor would speak well, publicly, of foreign troops in his town is only rational. I'd wait and see, until after our troops leave his town, as far as how genuine this mayor's comments actually are. There's a spin on both sets of comments, in other words. I'd be willing to bet that the first is far more spun than the second, though.
Before Ritter was busted for setting up a sexual laison with a child, it was discovered that he had received $400,000 from Saddam, through an Islamic charity, to change his story about the WMD. Looks like Soros may have picked up the slack.