[Shermy]

Ritter, in his own words (FCC compliant):

"Mr Ritter replied: "I'd say that person's a _______ liar. Quote unquote. And tell him to come over here so I can kick his ___." "The concept of Khafaji running around saying that allocations belonged to me: that is ________. How could Shakir even say that?"

[jwalsh07]

Asked how he would characterise anyone suggesting that Mr Khafaji was offering allocations in his name, Mr Ritter replied: "I'd say that person's a f-ing liar. Quote unquote. And tell him to come over here so I can kick his ass."

In between child molestations one would presume.

[Uncle George]

Where do they dig up egoistic morons for inspectors ?. Ritter, Blix.

[PsyOp]

Nothing Ritter says should be trusted.

Bio-Chemical Weapons & Saddam: A History.

[donozark]

Ritter gives new meaning to the saying, "Meet me at the mall."

[secretagent]

"I'd say that person's a fucking liar. Quote unquote. And tell him to come over here so I can kick his ass."

A typical Ritter rebuttal.

[cwb]

From The New Republic, Dec. 21, 1998:

"As a member of UNSCOM since 1991, and its chief inspector responsible for investigating Iraq's concealment mechanism from July 1995 until my resignation on August 26, 1998, I know that this is hardly the first time Saddam has pulled such tricks. In fact, they are at the heart of his strategy for preserving his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and, eventually, getting rid of U.N. economic sanctions (which he has largely succeeded in eluding anyway).

Through skillful manipulation of the situation on the ground in Iraq, international public opinion, and rifts among the members of the Security Council, Saddam actually aims to cap his comeback by getting UNSCOM to issue a clean bill of health. It is an audacious plan, but it may succeed, thanks in no small part to the mistakes of U.S. policymakers themselves. If it succeeds, the consequences could be dire.

The Baghdad regime-- strengthened by having retained the capability to produce weapons of mass destruction and psychologically fortified by having outlasted the world's sole remaining superpower--will rapidly restore its internal and regional constituencies and reemerge as a force to be reckoned with.

Since his defeat in the Gulf war, Saddam has built up eight years' worth of resentment and frustration that can only be released through renewed efforts at territorial expansion through armed aggression and blackmail, both economic and military. Even today, Iraq is not nearly disarmed..."

[piasa]

(snip) Mr Khafaji told the FT/Il Sole that he sold allocations to Augusto Giangrandi, the head of an Italian company called Italtech. Italtech resold the oil to a Houston oil trading company called Bayoil, or its subsidiaries.

Bayoil "lifted" - that is to say, collected from Iraqi oil terminals - almost 30m barrels from Italtech in only three months in 2001.

The relationship between the two companies was the subject of an Il Sole/FT investigation published last week. The article also documented the ties between the owners of Italtech and Bayoil, and Carlos Cardoen, a renowned Chilean arms dealer who was involved in arms trafficking to Iraq in the 1980s.

Any connection to Oscar Wyatt?

[piasa]

update :

Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter gets up to 5½ years in prison
Pocono Record ^ | 10/26/11

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