Nobody works this hard for a pay-off. Scott Ritter is sinking his career for the rest of his life here. There has to be something more at work here. Methinks Saddam has polaroids of our friend Scotty doing things he should not have been doing with young people he should not have been doing them with.
There is a progression in this sort of obsession:
Step 1 is a predeliction.
Step 2 is initiation
Step 3 is developing a need, where the unnatural has supplanted the natural desire
Step 4 is the degenerate phase.
Our Scotty is clearly in the degenerate phase. The question is, who identified his prediliction and developed it? Who moved him from a non-offending Step 1 to the offending Steps 2 and 3? And wouldn't they have polaroids? Video, these days, I would guess.
I would imagine that our Scotty has been a long term project of the Iraqis, and that they developed it while he was in-country back in the 90's. Now they are pulling the string. Oldest trick in the book. Literally.