Posted on 11/19/2001 1:38:25 PM PST by Jean S
NewsMax has reported before how former UN Arms Inspector Scott Ritter has become an apologist for Saddam Hussein's regime.
As the administration has pointed a clear finger at the Iraqi regime for building weapons of mass destruction, Ritter took to the airwaves to pour cold water in the allegations.
Ritter said he had "no doubt" Hussein was building such weapons -- but only up until 1993.
Since then, Ritter told Fox News' John Gibson, Iraq's "determination to acquire such weapons isn't there."
He claimed Iraq's doesn't have the "industrial infrastructure" to build such weapons, and that their number one goal is to have "sanctions lifted."
It all sounds good, but diametrically contradicts what Ritter said in 1996, when he quit the UN team claiming the Clinton administration had not allowed inspectors to do their job.
Ritter's claims don't jibe with claims of the head of Iraq's nuclear weapons program who now believes Saddam has built one or more nuclear devices.
If, as Ritter claims, the Iraqi's had no interest in building such weapons, they would have allowed in UN inspectors, which would have automatically lifted sanctions.
Ritter of all people should know this.
Instead, Hussein has kept the inspectors out, and has lost billions. Hussein obviously believes the weapons are more important than money.
I agree.
I too have seen Ritter saying this time and again in TV interviews and I can not figure out how he can say that. Even when we were in Iraq and trying to find out what was going on the Iraqi's didn't allow us to do the job.
Does not make any sense.
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I heard that show too. Prager asked her how she knew Iraq was behind the attacks on the U.S. She was surprisingly inarticulate. She had no specifics. Her answer, basically, was it stands to reason. Well shoot, if you're going to bomb someone, you've got to have, as Sharon would say, some "facts on the ground." Did Saddam or didn't he?
And that's another thing about Prager's radio show these days. It sounds like a fifties' rock and roll song--"bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iraq." In the weeks following September 11th, he got to talking about how there was a "time to live and a time to die, a time to love and a time to hate." Well now it was our time to "hate." I think he needs to get a grip. You don't win a world wide war on terrorism by getting emotional about it and there's no positive side to hate. It just causes you to make stupid mistakes. The Godfather had it right. When someone knifes you, don't get mad, get even.
A lifetime of economic sanctions against Cuba have done nothing to diminish Castro's rule or tyranny. I would be interested to hear why this policy is utilized. A policy which in fact weakens the very people that might be in a position to effect change.
Oh... never mind.
I had always taken him at face value and appreciated the moral compass he promoted on his show. Finding out that he has been an actor all this time has been a disappointment and I no longer am able to listen for reasons you elucidate.
Call me crazy, but I'll believe that when they're all dead.
I understand what the complaints against Ritter and Brock. But what was it that Schippers did?
I'll tell you what bugs me about Prager these says is his continual use of the word "evil." I was making coffee and listening to him the other day and I swear he used evil six times in eight seconds. He claims that the problem with most Americans is that they won't admit the existence of evil. But he uses the word evil like a club to beat up anyone who says "hey, let's not go off half-cocked." Once he puts the label "evil" on some foreign figure the discussion is over. There's no need to think the matter through, acknowledge the possibility of error or admit that maybe the other side has a point or two.
I was telling someone the other day that American foreign policy in the Mid-East was making a lot of people hate us. He was aghast. He said, "what you're saying is, 'reward terrorism.'" And I was saying, "Look, there's no wrong time to quit doing something dumb."
Yeah right Iraq is no threat. Will someone please bring this guys up on trial for harboring terrorists.
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