To clairify. I do not neccesarily think there is blackmail link between Ritter's sex scandal and his out spoken opinions about Iraq, it is plausible that there is and plausible that there is not. My point was that the scandal is relevant to Mr Ritter's position on Iraq independent of such a link. The idea is he had a certain level of credibilty because of his experience, and now his opinion has less credibility because he has been shown to have at least one serious lapse in moral character. Moreover the scandal is of a public nature, and therefore within the scope of any serious discussion about Mr Ritter and his opinions on Iraq.
My impression was that you did not think that the moral lapses were relevant to his Iraq postitions (though I think we agree these positions are contemtable anyway).
Your comments are similar to the thought I expressed yesterday: That Scott Ritter has been shown to be a moral reprobate, and as a moral reprobate, his ability to discern right from wrong, morality from evil, and reality from fantasy, can now be put into question.
My original post yesterday (the one everyone jumped on) was that conservatives should not make too much of the news of his arrest, because it would smack of the same sort of gutter hardball that Clinton enlisted Larry Flynt to engage in. I didn't suggest that his arrest was irrelevant, but only that we shouldn't make too much of it -- shouldn't hang our hat on it as the final repudiation of Ritter's Iraq position. I still think Ritter's position on Iraq is indefensible, even discounting this moral bankruptcy.