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Scott Ritter: "The United States is going to leave Iraq with its tail between its legs, defeated.
Independent Online Newspapers ^ | March 26, 2003 | Sapa-AFP

Posted on 03/26/2003 4:30:03 PM PST by dmcg_98

"US will lose war", says former UN inspector

March 26 2003 at 06:42PM

Lisbon - The United States does not have the military means to take over Baghdad and will lose the war against Iraq, former United Nations 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.

'It is a war we can not win' 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. - Sapa-AFP


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To: dmcg_98
Nitwit. Apparently the only thing he is good at is playing with himself in front of little girls.
101 posted on 03/26/2003 5:23:30 PM PST by doug from upland (Protestors file Chapter 7 -- they are morally bankrupt)
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To: dmcg_98
In most places this guy wouldn't be fit to run for town idiot. The media sees fit to sponsor him.
102 posted on 03/26/2003 5:23:38 PM PST by ffusco ("Essiri sempri la santu fora la chiesa.")
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To: doug from upland
I still wonder about the childrens prison in Iraq he went to and what he did there to the children?
103 posted on 03/26/2003 5:25:14 PM PST by TLBSHOW (The gift is to see the truth......)
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To: dmcg_98
Another bitter little man. Makes me wonder if he really was doing any inspecting for the US.
104 posted on 03/26/2003 5:25:32 PM PST by swheats
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To: LayoutGuru2
I am proud to say that I had asked for a Wanted poster of Mr. Ritter and talented freepers came through once again.
105 posted on 03/26/2003 5:25:32 PM PST by Catspaw
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To: dmcg_98; JohnHuang2; the_doc; cake_crumb
He sounds like some of the whiners and doomer/gloomers on Free Republic posting something from Reuters/BBC/NY Slimes or ABCNNBCBS which shows that we have lost the war or quagmired it or worse.

Wonder what his posting name is?
106 posted on 03/26/2003 5:26:56 PM PST by Grampa Dave ("Those who are kind to the cruel end up being cruel to the kind!")
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To: Rome2000
"While the US military is sincere about wanting to avoid Iraqi civilian casualties, we never said we wouldn't bomb targets in civilian areas."

We also got disgusted enough to bomb two missile batteries in a residential area. Avoiding civilian casualties just means we're not going to go out of our way to target civilians.

107 posted on 03/26/2003 5:29:06 PM PST by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = VERY expensive, very SCRATCHY toilet paper.)
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To: CurlyBill
I'll be laughing each I drive thru a BK. The whopper Jr is my fav.

Anyway atleast they are British owned!
108 posted on 03/26/2003 5:29:26 PM PST by ffusco ("Essiri sempri la santu fora la chiesa.")
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To: Maedhros
I understand the search / duplicate issue. Ultimately, though, the title of a thread should be the decision of the poster of that thread.

The second sentence above gives me great pause in having any belief in the preceding one.

109 posted on 03/26/2003 5:29:57 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: doug from upland
caption this

You see this ring it means nothing to me as I love little girls. Any Burger kings around this town Asks Scott Ritter to his fellow creeps....

110 posted on 03/26/2003 5:30:16 PM PST by TLBSHOW (The gift is to see the truth......)
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To: dmcg_98
What? No BARF ALERT?
111 posted on 03/26/2003 5:30:20 PM PST by b4its2late (Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Bonaparte)
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To: hole_n_one; dmcg_98
"If an article's title is altered from it's original design, it makes it impossible to do a search for that article, which will result in multiple postings of the same article with simply a different title."

You're right Hole_n_one. In fact, the admin moderators had a thread up recently, warning against changing the titles of articles, thus clogging up bandwidth with duplicate threads.

112 posted on 03/26/2003 5:33:07 PM PST by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = VERY expensive, very SCRATCHY toilet paper.)
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To: merrin
It's official: Scott Ritter is nuts.


113 posted on 03/26/2003 5:33:34 PM PST by b4its2late (Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Bonaparte)
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To: Joe 6-pack
He must have gotten too close to the uranium when he was inspecting for WMD in Iraq.
114 posted on 03/26/2003 5:34:06 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Maedhros
There is no need to accuse posters of lacking permission to create their own titles.

The accepted method is to post the original title intact, and if the poster so chooses, to add any additional text encased in ( ).

Nobody has "permission" to alter the original title of any article.

115 posted on 03/26/2003 5:35:59 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: Beowulf
Looks like that's the way Mr. Ritter left the US.
117 posted on 03/26/2003 5:38:30 PM PST by Roy Tucker
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To: Grampa Dave
"He sounds like some of the whiners and doomer/gloomers on Free Republic posting something from Reuters/BBC/NY Slimes or ABCNNBCBS which shows that we have lost the war or quagmired it or worse"

It wouldn't surprise me a bit if Ritter and/or his buddy Pitt DO troll FR. No doubt he has a DU membership too. According to the article, he didn't say one thing different from the doom and gloom propaganda we've been seeing in the media and here on FR. Heck, he could have copied and pasted statements from right here on FR on the making of his remarks today.

118 posted on 03/26/2003 5:39:17 PM PST by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = VERY expensive, very SCRATCHY toilet paper.)
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To: dmcg_98
"US will lose"

Ok Ritter, we'll take that bet. But if we win and you lose, you get your perverted, traitorous a$$ outa here. We get to tear up your passport and drop you by parachute into France

Seriously though, take a good look at this guys eyes, he looks evil. He gives me the creeps.

119 posted on 03/26/2003 5:39:33 PM PST by fly_so_free (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last-Winston Churchill)
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To: dmcg_98
"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.

Hey, Scooter...when Burger King says "have it your way"...they don't mean with UNDERAGE PRE-TEENS!!!

I will repeat my plea...someone help this guy EAT A BULLET!!!

SOON!!!!!!

120 posted on 03/26/2003 5:39:55 PM PST by Itzlzha (The avalanche has already started...it is too late for the pebbles to vote!)
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