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Ex-U.N. Inspector Questions News Timing (Scott Ritter "It's All a Conspiracy" Alert! )
Associated Press ^ | January 23, 2003

Posted on 01/23/2003 2:27:27 PM PST by Timesink

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To: Timesink
Boy oh boy, is Ritter a piece of work, or what?! I am more convinced that ever that this man has committed treason — and I am not one who throws that word around lightly. Either that, or he truly is a mental case.
21 posted on 01/23/2003 2:50:06 PM PST by Wolfstar
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To: prisoner6
"( I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered! I am a FREE MAN!)"

. folded nor spindled

22 posted on 01/23/2003 2:51:13 PM PST by spokeshave
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To: Timesink
"It's a shame that somebody would bring up this old matter, this dismissed matter, and seek to silence me at this time,"

I remember right before a national election when one of the dem(commie) lawyers brought out the erroneous junk against Caspar Weinberger. I remember right before the senate election here in California when pubbie Bruce Herschenson got blindsided by Boxer about going into a stip joint some two yrs before with the setup from to goons on ACB TV. Remember everything in politics occurs NOT by happenstance.

23 posted on 01/23/2003 2:52:59 PM PST by Digger
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To: Inspectorette
"Supposed to be on an airplane to Baghdad"---perhaps to pick up another fat check, hmmm?

How long before Ritter joins Sharpton in pleading for the Clinton/Kennedy pass? (You don't ask HIM about Chappaquidick! BAAWWAAA)
24 posted on 01/23/2003 2:54:30 PM PST by fightinJAG
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To: Timesink
This is what happens when we get too close to the facts. Let us step back and get a better perspective.

The issue isn't that Ritter has recently been twice arrested for matters associated with child sex crimes. That is an incidental matter, a device that triggered our attention, interest and thinking.

We want to go back, what?, a year to the time that Ritter did a 180 and stopped saying that Iraq was hiding things and started saying that Iraq was clean.

That's the conspiracy that I want to investigate. Why the change? It was not rational, was not explained. These recent arrests, while not (perhaps) related, do give us a clue. Sadaam got Ritter on tape molesting a kid, male or female, and convinced Ritter that one way to avoid publication (Al-Jaziara?) was to change his story.

Today's perversion is only of interest in the context of the explanation it offers for his change of mind. His new position was never viewed as creditable by anyone but the ultra-left wing media and other America haters.

Us normal folks knew something was wrong but didn't know why. Ritter's position (and I was surprised at how the guy on CNN went after him) about his arrests simply discredits him further. So, instead of taking a bribe to change his position, it seems that he was blackmailed. On a plane to Bagdahd? What, doing more kids?

25 posted on 01/23/2003 2:55:03 PM PST by Tacis
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To: Timesink
I'm hoping the joke is on the Hildebeast. I do find some poetic justice in the fact that the Ritter story is breaking in upstate New York, possibly reminding everyone of how icky that other victim of the alleged VRWC is.
26 posted on 01/23/2003 2:56:38 PM PST by fightinJAG
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To: DWSUWF
Amen, brutha.
27 posted on 01/23/2003 3:04:11 PM PST by wideawake
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To: SerpentDove; Grampa Dave; aristeides; Catspaw; Howlin; doug from upland
Here's another local article. Nothing new, except check out the Ritter video link! He says, for one, `I remain an authority on Iraq.'

Ritter cancels Iraq trip to deal with media

28 posted on 01/23/2003 3:51:45 PM PST by Shermy
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To: Tacis
So, instead of taking a bribe to change his position, it seems that he was blackmailed. On a plane to Baghdad? What, doing more kids?

That certainly seems possible, and is also under consideration at the FReeppost and response thread *here*. But the use of very young girls as prostitutes in blackmail/extortion arrangements is hardly anything new in the intelligence business, where the practicioners, some as young as eight or less, are sometimes known as *butterflies.*

29 posted on 01/23/2003 3:52:19 PM PST by archy
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To: Timesink
I question the timing of his 180* flip on Iraq. Here he is, December 21, 1998:

Military strikes carried out for the purpose of enabling a vigorous UNSCOM to carry out its mandate are wholly justifiable. And one thing is certain: Without an UNSCOM carrying out the full range of its disarmament and monitoring activities unfettered by Iraqi obstruction, the only winner to emerge from this situation will be Saddam Hussein.

--Scott Ritter, The New Republic, December 21, 1998.

30 posted on 01/23/2003 3:55:37 PM PST by Petronski (I'm not always cranky.)
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To: Petronski
Here he is, December 21, 1998: Military strikes carried out for the purpose of enabling a vigorous UNSCOM to carry out its mandate are wholly justifiable.

Wouldn't that have been right after Clinton's bombing of Iraq coinciding with the impeachment debate on the floor of the House?

31 posted on 01/23/2003 3:57:40 PM PST by aristeides
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To: spokeshave
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered!

Wait a minute, I thought getting 'debriefed' was Scott's plan in all this.

32 posted on 01/23/2003 3:59:15 PM PST by Petronski (And maybe not 'filed,' but certainly 'defiled.')
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To: SerpentDove; Grampa Dave; aristeides; Catspaw; Howlin; doug from upland
Here's another local article. Nothing new, except check out the Ritter video link! He says, for one, `I remain an authority on Iraq.'

Ritter cancels Iraq trip to deal with media

33 posted on 01/23/2003 4:00:07 PM PST by Shermy
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To: aristeides
Yes, but, if his article appeared in the print version of The New Republic (rather than only online--and I don't know which is true) he would have faced a lead time of at least a week to get into print.
34 posted on 01/23/2003 4:02:28 PM PST by Petronski (I'm not always cranky.)
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To: Shermy
`I remain an authority on Iraq.'


35 posted on 01/23/2003 4:04:02 PM PST by Petronski (I'm not always cranky.)
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To: fightinJAG
Here is the real joke on the Hilldebeast, her own sexual pervert, the Clintoon:


36 posted on 01/23/2003 4:07:11 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Stop future Freepathons! Become a monthly donor! Only you can prevent Freepathons!)
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To: Timesink

This is incredible. What a maroon. In case there's anybody left who doesn't know that 41-year-old Scott Ritter likes to play with himself in front of 14- and 16-year-old girls, he's going to go on the publicity circuit to make sure they find out.

"I'm a victim!" he roars. "They're telling people about the time I tried to lure an underage girl to Burger King to watch me spank the monkey. It's a plot by the Right Wing Conspiracy!"

You want a Walnetto, little girl?


37 posted on 01/23/2003 4:26:41 PM PST by Nick Danger (Find Hans Blix in the pizza and win a chemical weapons arsenal)
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To: Shermy
It's his personality disorder talking.
38 posted on 01/23/2003 4:46:49 PM PST by SarahW
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To: Timesink
1st he denies it............

then he delays talking about it..............

then he lies about it.............

then he said it was “old news”.......

well who else used these tactics???????????????????????

Clinton!

39 posted on 01/23/2003 5:30:37 PM PST by Lockbox
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To: SarahW
I agree. The video confirms the diagnosis to a tee. But some authorities in the field differ:


Diagnosis? He's a BLOCKHEAD!
Five cents please...

40 posted on 01/23/2003 5:48:36 PM PST by Shermy
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