http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/794346/posts ''It's not that I was lying or misleading anyone,'' he said of his earlier remarks. ''It's just that I said things very forcefully when the fact is there should have been a statement afterward, a 'but' kind of thing.'' Back then, he said, he was using his ''quantitative filter,'' speaking as an arms inspector about an unfinished job, seeing a cup 10 percent full. Later, he switched to his ''qualitative filter,'' seeing Iraq as 90 percent empty and enfeebled.
This is typical of Ritter. Even when admitting he is wrong, he is insisting he is right. His self-image requires it, for more than a life story, he has a personal mythology. Ritter, 41, loves the telling of it, which he does exceptionally well. In each chapter, he is the courageous man of principle, a stout-hearted citizen up against the dimwitted, the wicked and the power-mad.
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