Scott Ritter - What turned the hawkish Iraq weapons inspector into a dove?

Slate ^ | 9/25/02 | Michael Crowley

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Scott Ritter - What turned the hawkish Iraq weapons inspector into a dove?

His paygrade.

[TomB]

If Ritter lied so vociferously, so easily and so often in 1998, why should we believe him now?

[TLBSHOW]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/757151/posts

[Texbob]

The change is all the Dollars Saddam purchased traitor Ritter for.

[Deb]

Hey, I remember that Scott Ridder. What a change. I also remember when he was being personally trashed by the Iraqis on a daily basis. They obviously feared him.

I don't think money would have turned him, but threats on the lives of his family would.

[secretagent]

Possibility:

Ritter has shown no contradiction. When he said that Saddam could rebuild his WMD in 6 months, he meant to add "if sanctions should lift".

Lamenting the deaths attendant on sanctions doesn't mean

[secretagent]

Oops! An incomplete post, from an incomplete thought. Please disregard. Too many windows open.

[yendu bwam]

$400,000.

I don't think so. I think he's scared. And by something not good. I would not be surprised if his family has been threatened.

[He Rides A White Horse]

By his own admission, Ritter accepted $400,000 in funding two years ago from an Iraqi-American businessman named Shakir al-Khafaji.

Of the $400,000, he claims that only $42,000 went into his own pocket—

Where there is smoke, there is fire.