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

[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

[Wil H]

The question is ..What additional acts of pedophilia is someone holding over Ritter's head that he would make this statement?

[Samizdat]

This guy is one sick puppy.

[annyokie]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/876675/posts

Go here and see my cool pic. First time we made it work!

[lilylangtree]

Wasn't this twerp one of the original inspectors that got his own butt kicked out of Iraq by Saddam?

[Cold Heat]

Kill.......kill.........killlllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mhking]

I think your Aw Jeez pic ought to be the official, last post someone sees before they get zotted.

Maybe someone ought to put a bug in Thor's ear...[g]

[thathamiltonwoman]

Seriously, what is wrong with Scott Ritter? Is he insane or what?

[Cold Heat]

Wasn't this twerp one of the original inspectors that got his own butt kicked out of Iraq by Saddam?

Not until he got caught with a Baddad teen.

[Rome2000]

The Iraqis are not stupid,

I wouldn't be too quick to say that.

It was the Clinton administration that killed hundreds and maybe thousands of Christian civilians in Kosovo by bombing from 15,000 feet up.

Didn't hear much about that from the leftist press, after all, Milosevic apparently posed a greater threat to the USA than Saddm Hussein and his bad mustachioed minions.

If the Iraqis weren't stupid they wouldn't believe that we won't be killing their military no matter where its parked next to.

While the US military is sincere about wanting to avoid Iraqi civilian casualties, we never said we wouldn't bomb targets in civilian areas.

Iraqi TV was next to a day care center, and its gone.

[boltCutter]

This is the same buffoon that was paid off by the Iraqi government to engage in anti-American propaganda. He's just doing his job here. Why is anyone taking him seriously...and why doesn't anyone in the mainstream press report on this payment/propaganda agreement made public (barely) a couple years ago?

[henbane]

More defeatist spew from an anti-American turd who has been paid $400,000 by Shakir al-Khafaji--a rich Iraqi Saddam supporter who wants America to lose big-time.

[BriarBey]

Another talking head....the mouth moves and nothing comes out.

[BriarBey]

Another talking head....the mouth moves and nothing comes out.

[dmcg_98]

It was a cut and paste from a news link ... tag the journalist.

[cake_crumb]

"There has got to be a middle school around here somewhere!"

Exactly! ROFLOL!

[Right_in_Virginia]

Why is anyone listening to this a-hole? He's lucky he's not wearing an orange pantsuit playing house with his cell mate.

[Maedhros]

Who asked you to alter the original title of this article?

I understand the search / duplicate issue. Ultimately, though, the title of a thread should be the decision of the poster of that thread. There is no need to be accuse posters of lacking permission to create their own titles.

[MinuteGal]

I wish we'd quit excusing Ritter with the myth that Saddam is holding something over his head. Dead or alive, I doubt that Hussein is spending much time right now thinking about blackmailing this isolated speck of vermin embedded in the world's dung heap.

Ritter is evil, plain evil. Obviously, he has some sort of twisted mental process, but he's not insane. He's cunning, egotistical and obsessed. But he most certainly would pass any psychological test to see if he knows the difference between right and wrong..

We must never let him off the hook. He's an EVIL human specimen, period!

Leni

[Chad Fairbanks]

Wow, Ritter... Project much? I mean, weren't YOU the one who slinked off with yoru hands between your legs????

[HitmanLV]

"Don't be shy, Scott....tell us what you really think."

It realy is remarkable how shrill the other side of the aisle gets in times like this. They are causing so much damage to their cause, it's mind boggling.