[Spunky]

Ritter lied earlier on Fox so I have no doubt he is doing it again!

It has really puzzled me why Ritter made 180 degree turn. I remember when I first heard him (if I am not mistaken) he was real upset about being booted out of Iraq and said he knew there was weapons there. I think he was real upset with his boss Brown? Baker? (I can't remember his name)also. I saw Brown? Baker? on PBS the other night saying we shouldn't go into Iraq as they have no weapons of mass destruction.

[Spunky]

I think he was real upset with his boss Brown? Baker? (I can't remember his name)also.

I should have kept reading and I would have seen BUTLER :-)

[formercalifornian]

I know I should know who this guy is, but could someone refresh my memory? I don't watch TV. I remember the guy's name but that's about it. What is this 180 degree turn I keep hearing about?

[MJY1288]

I have Ritter's Sworn testimony in a Senate hearing back in 99. He and his fellow inspectors were pulled out of Iraq by the "Stainmaker" in 1998 because Iraq was not complying and Clinton needed something to distract from his numerous scandals. Scott Ritter was telling a totally different story back then.

Scott Ritter has been back to Iraq to co-produse a pro-Iraqi documentary movie about the Gulf War, He was supposedly paid $55K and Scott Claims he spent the money on finishing the film or something to that effect. He then went back to Iraq late last year to address Saddam's faithful in a nationwide address. He questioned his CIC's intentions and sided with the Iraqi's. At this point the State Department should have taken away his citizenship and let him stay in Iraq.

I would love to know how much money or fame it took for Scott Ritter to willingly trash the USA on the soil of an enemy that killed many of his fellow Marines.

My Cousin a Marine, who served in Vietnam until stepping on a land mine in 1968. who is more like a brother to me, who also lived in my parents home with us because his father was killed in the Korean War, Says that Scott Ritter had better stay away from any armed Marines because he believes they would frag him in a New York minute

[lizma]

It has really puzzled me why Ritter made 180 degree turn.

Me too. I know the klintoon admin really screwed him over but to the point he'd screw the American people for revenge?? As of yet there doesn't seem to be a money trail. I really don't get it.

[Jerez2]

Why did Ritter do a turnabout? Hmm, maybe this --
From another thread "Grim Truth About to emerge in Iraq" by Christopher Hitchens:

"A very senior former inspector, who is a highly-regarded international civil servant, told me that he had been offered his own personal Swiss bank account by a top official in Saddam's government, on condition that he produced a favourable report.

HE declined the offer, which he later discovered had been accepted by some junior members of his staff."

Junior member named Ritter, perhaps? Hmmmmm?

[Al Simmons]

After Congress and Klinton pissed him off, I read that Ritter somehow got involved in producing a "documentary" on Iraq for which Saddam paid him $500k. Anyone got the skinny on this report?