[CatoRenasci]

My guess is that with this in his background (and you can be pretty sure the Iraqi secret police figured out his penchant while he was over there pre-1998), his turn is the result of having been shown footage of himself cavorting with teen, and perhaps even pre-teen, lovelies (?) in Iraq while the guest of Saddam. This boy has been blackmailed, and when he didn't produce the results his blackmailers wanted, outed. Ritter is not only toast, he's burned toast!

[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." -- Scott Ritter, November 2002