Scott Ritter's Iraq Complex: One man's continuing war with Saddam, Washington -- and himself

New York Times Magazine | November 24, 2002 | Barry Bearak

[Diogenesis]

[Semper Paratus]

Have to assume that Ritter revealed everything he knew about the inpsections methodlogy to Iraq, if Blix doesn't account for this in his work the whole thing will be a joke, if it isn't already.

[Mr Ducklips]

As I often told my kids, "I'm always right, and I never lie."

They didn't believe it either.

[dalereed]

"Then, writing for the New Republic"

Writing for that left wing rag tells a lot.

Get Us out of the UN and get the UN out of the US!

[Kewlhand`tek]

ok i have to post SuperDumbass again

[MEGoody]

"In public, his tendency is to be brusquely dismissive: ''I don't see where I've changed one iota."

It's easy to forget one 'changed' when that change was paid for with Iraqi funds.

[piasa]

Then he made a surprise announcement. ''I'm going to graduate school next fall; I'm getting a Ph.D. I'm going to teach. O.K.? Is that seizing the spotlight?''

Ah, the university professorship... the last refuge of the arrogant and generally unemployable.

[ohioman]

I know a current Marine who would love to kick Ritter's traiterous ass.

[piasa]

But in mid-harangue, his peaceable side resurfaced. He was talking again about the Constitution and how Americans needed to honor their commitments to the United Nations.

That's funny. My brother turned down a job at UNSCOM precisely because in his view, US participation in the UN is unconstitutional.

[1Old Pro]

Simon & Schuster paid him a $250,000 advance for a book

Ritter also gets speaking fees. He makes MUCH more as a flip flopper peacenik than a quite person who once served and chosses to keep his mouth shut.

He is doing this for one reason: FAME, albeit short lived and most importantly something that directly flows from this.... FORTUNE.

[The Great Satan]

"And my brain has no clue which way to go here. It's just twisted. And I'm honest when I say I get up every morning and I just want to get the hell out of this."

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the ping here!

Now I will post the best reply on another Ritter thread, and that reply was yours:

Next to levelling the WTC using nineteen men with box cutter knifes, turning Scott Ritter with a bit of tail is probably the best return on investment Saddam ever made.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

i THINK rITTER IS GOING TO BE SEEN AS A FOOL SOON:

Saddam’s first smoking gun traced to India (Also discussed on FOXNEWS Special Report)

[Miss Marple]

Blackmail. Saddam, the Clintons, or both?

[Grampa Dave]

We need to know when the writer of this Aesop Fable for the Slimes new about this story about Ritter, the double hitter re being a sexual predator: (link)

Delmar Weapons Inspector in Hot Water

(updated: January 20th, 5:50pm) The spotlight is back on former UN Weapons Inspector and Delmar native, Scott Ritter. But it's not over Iraq instead its over charges he talked with an underage girl on the Internet.

The Daily Gazette broke the story over the weekend. The paper says Ritter was arrested in June of 2001 after having a sexual conversation on the Internet with someone he "thought" was an underage girl. The girl turned out to be an undercover investigator.

Sources tell NEWS10 that Ritter contacted what he thought was a teenage girl on the internet for the purpose of a sexual interlude not once, but twice within a three month period back in 2001. Ritter also underwent court-ordered sex offender counseling from an Albany psychologist. ============================================================

So when did the publishers of the NY Slimes know about the double hitter sexual predator and decided to spike the news so Ritter could lie for Uncle Saddam?

[Grampa Dave]

Here is a search of the FR threads about the Sexual Predator Ritter compiled by Ron Dog! (List of just Free Republic threads re the sexual predator Ritter)

Forget this long and fabricatted Bravo Sierra Artice by a NY Slimes writer about the Sexual Predator Ritter. Just go to these links to see that the left wing's golden boy Ritter is now burnt toast! (List of just Free Republic threads re the sexual predator Ritter)

[Timesink]

Bumping this interesting psycological profile of Mr. Ritter from last fall.

[Mr. Mojo]

"and I wanted to preserve the integrity of the inspection process." - Ritter

The inspection process has about as much integrity as Ritter himself.

[wideawake]

What a pompous, self-important horse's ass.