First he insisted that "there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq". Then he said his UN team was forced out with "90 percent of the job done." When asked how he knew there was nothing in Iraq - since they left with 10 percent of the job undone, Ritter insisted that the remaining 10 percent was "only documentation and inventories." He insisted he had "complete access" because "I was in Saddam HUssein's bathroom" and talked to the highest levels of Iraq's intelligence agencies. But when pressed, he could not answer the repeated questions about his certainty that there were no WMD in Iraq, since he hadn't gotten the inventories, as he previously admintted.
Throughout the discussion he was hostile, angry, combative, and just plain rude (while the other panelists were quite accomodating to his wierd outbursts).
Ritter became nearly apoplectic when Iraq's potential involvement in WTC 9/11 was raised, saying that the alleged sightings of bin Laden in Bhagdad were sheer nonsense, and that other sightings of Atta and Iraqui intelligence were also nonsense. He offered as proof that "I was in the el Rasheed Hotel in March 1998, and I didn't see bin Laden."
I don't think anyone on that panel (which included Gerald Posner and a prof from the Naval War College, I believe) could understand the logic behind his random, disconnected, and strange outbursts. I certainly couldn't.
Ritter is a very strange guy, not to be believed. So for him to state that the anthax is driven by "right wing lunatics," with no rationale for saying this, is completely in keeping with the irrational and strange Ritter I saw on television.
Does anyone doubt that this guy has been compromised by his *intimacy* with Saddam Hussein?? Why is he so eager to cover Saddam's ass? What arangement did he make with Iraqi intelligence? I hope the CIA is onto this guy. If not someone should clue them in.