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Ritter: US will lose war against Iraq
Middle East Online ^ | 3-26-03

Posted on 03/26/2003 6:34:39 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Former UN weapons inspector says US does not have military means to take over Baghdad, defeat inevitable.

LISBON - The United States does not have the military means to take over Baghdad and will lose the war against Iraq, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter said.

"The United States is going to leave Iraq with its tail between its legs, defeated. It is a war we can not win," he told private radio TSF in an interview broadcast here Tuesday evening.

"We do not have the military means to take over Baghdad and for this reason I believe the defeat of the United States in this war is inevitable," he said.

"Every time we confront Iraqi troops we may win some tactical battles, as we did for ten years in Vietnam but we will not be able to win this war, which in my opinion is already lost," Ritter added.

Stiffening Iraqi resistance as US-led forces close in on Baghdad have prompted questions about the strategy to use precision air power and a smaller, fast moving ground force to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Some military analysts have said there are not enough allied troops in Iraq to take control of Baghdad, where Saddam Hussein's elite troops are said to be concentrated, and that the planning of the war was overly optimistic.

But British Prime Minister Tony Blair told parliament Wednesday the United States and Britain believe they have "sufficient forces" in Iraq and London was not planning to send reinforcements to the country at this stage.

A combination of bad weather and heavy fighting in central Iraq has slowed the advance of coalition troops marching on Baghdad.

Ritter resigned in August 1998 after accusing both Washington and the United Nations of not doing enough to support the weapons inspectors.

Since leaving the UN weapons inspectors team he has become an outspoken critic of US policies towards Iraq.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 5; demshills; flashback; handwringers; ritter; scottritter; traitor
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To: PhilDragoo
Good one.
141 posted on 03/26/2003 4:22:05 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What a moron! I guess he's pissed cause Saddam won't be able to supply him with little girls anymore, eh?
142 posted on 03/26/2003 4:25:23 PM PST by Walkin Man
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Since leaving the UN weapons inspectors team he has become an outspoken critic of US policies towards Iraq."

...And spends his free time luring children to Burger King parking lots so he can molest them.

They left that part out for some reason.

143 posted on 03/26/2003 4:53:07 PM PST by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = VERY expensive, very SCRATCHY toilet paper.)
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To: JohnHuang2
Scott John Walker Ritter.

Or Scott "Mata Hari" Ritter. This man (and I use that term loosely) doesn't know his a$$ from a hot rock. Why doesn't he just go to Iraq and become a human shield? Maybe he could guard some of those scuds Saddam doesn't have. ...

144 posted on 03/26/2003 5:34:01 PM PST by Schatze (It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

http://rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_032603/content/stack_a.member.html

145 posted on 03/26/2003 5:37:46 PM PST by TLBSHOW (The gift is to see the truth......)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Who is paying this guy anyway?
146 posted on 03/26/2003 7:32:18 PM PST by Happy2BMe (HOLLYWOOD:Ask not what U can do for your country, ask what U can do for Iraq!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
An Iraqi shill.
147 posted on 03/26/2003 7:41:26 PM PST by VRWC For Truth
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To: Kevin Curry
I though he went to matinees with a tub of popcorn on his lap with a hole cut into it.
148 posted on 03/26/2003 7:42:57 PM PST by Lx (So it's now, Duct tape and cover?)
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To: Grampa Dave; wardaddy; Eaker; TEXASPROUD; harpseal; Travis McGee; AAABEST; Joe Brower; Jeff Head; ..
In Lisbon trying his ...."Hey Do que pequeno da menina você quer quer prender meu pickle?..... line on the underaged burger king girls no doubt.......This dumbass just needs a good old ass kicking and jail time for his sedition and pedophilia IMO.

Stay Safe Dave !

149 posted on 03/26/2003 11:13:34 PM PST by Squantos (Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
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To: Squantos
From what Maryann told me about what hapens to pedophiles in the prison system if ol' Scott gets there he will not enjoy his time and he will get that kicking so richly deserved.
150 posted on 03/27/2003 5:18:04 AM PST by harpseal (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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To: ThomasMore
As far as I'm concerned, Scott Ritter can and will "Eat SH*T" when this war is over and the Iraqi government has been toppled.

I think the origin of that qaint expression is the first French surrender to a foreign power, when the surrendering Frenchman prostrated himself to his new overlord and ended up face first in a pile of steaming roadapples.

151 posted on 03/27/2003 5:33:24 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: marujo
Didn't Ritter get busted for child-porn recently?
152 posted on 03/27/2003 5:37:42 AM PST by bedolido
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To: Squantos
John Gibson on FNC last night read this amicus hostis' letter to the station on the air.

WTF is _anyone_ even listening to this treasonous sonuvabitch any longer?!? I swear to God, if I ever saw this sack of sh!t walking down the street, I'd chase him down and beat him like a dog. I wouldn't be able to stop myself.


153 posted on 03/27/2003 6:21:10 AM PST by Joe Brower (http://www.joebrower.com/)
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To: Lauratealeaf
What is sedition?

Good, and long overdue question. Here is an example of the U.S. code on sedition, dating back to WW-I:

16 May, 1918 The U.S. Sedition Act

United States, Statutes at Large, Washington, D.C., 1918, Vol. XL, pp 553 ff. A portion of the amendment to Section 3 of the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917.

SECTION 3. Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States, or to promote the success of its enemies, or shall willfully make or convey false reports, or false statements, . . . or incite insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully obstruct . . . the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, or . . . shall willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States . . . or shall willfully display the flag of any foreign enemy, or shall willfully . . . urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of production . . . or advocate, teach, defend, or suggest the doing of any of the acts or things in this section enumerated and whoever shall by word or act support or favor the cause of any country with which the United States is at war or by word or act oppose the cause of the United States therein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both....

154 posted on 03/27/2003 6:44:18 AM PST by Paul Ross (From the State Looking Forward to Global Warming! Let's Drown France!)
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To: piasa
This may finally put an end to this person's credibility, even though he hasn't had any with me for a long time.
155 posted on 03/27/2003 7:08:12 AM PST by blackbart1
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To: Joe Brower
Agree......FNC-MSNBC ect ect giving this POS pedophile and seditionist air time is indeed disheartening. Note he's not in the USA ? Lisbon ?? Spewing hate and trying to make his lies and disinformational shit and shineola show carry more weight with those that will listen and use his ass as a propaganda tool against the USA.

Time to give this worm his own hospital bed and jail cell (in that order) IMO.

Stay Safe !

156 posted on 03/27/2003 8:17:31 AM PST by Squantos (Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
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To: Squantos
Hospital bed? Jail cell? Nah. How about one of these:


157 posted on 03/27/2003 8:20:58 AM PST by Joe Brower (http://www.joebrower.com/)
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To: Squantos
good old ass kicking

Boy howdy, I'd like a shot at him.

158 posted on 03/27/2003 8:26:43 AM PST by wardaddy (G-d speed our fighters!)
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To: Joe Brower; wardaddy
LOL.......Whatever the outcome he's gonna need on of those urnial shaped clintonista headstones on his grave IMO !

Stay Safe !

159 posted on 03/27/2003 8:51:52 AM PST by Squantos (Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
FLASHBACK BUMP

Ritter is a putz.
160 posted on 04/08/2003 8:46:03 AM PDT by finnman69 (!)
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