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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

Posted on 03/26/2003 4:30:03 PM PST by 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


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To: gidgetgirl3
The question is ..What additional acts of pedophilia is someone holding over Ritter's head that he would make this statement?
81 posted on 03/26/2003 4:59:31 PM PST by Wil H
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To: dmcg_98
This guy is one sick puppy.
82 posted on 03/26/2003 5:00:07 PM PST by Samizdat
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To: oyez
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83 posted on 03/26/2003 5:01:54 PM PST by annyokie (provacative yet educational reading alert)
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To: dmcg_98
Wasn't this twerp one of the original inspectors that got his own butt kicked out of Iraq by Saddam?
84 posted on 03/26/2003 5:02:16 PM PST by lilylangtree
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To: dmcg_98
Kill.......kill.........killlllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
85 posted on 03/26/2003 5:03:40 PM PST by Cold Heat
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To: philetus
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]

86 posted on 03/26/2003 5:04:08 PM PST by mhking
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To: dmcg_98
Seriously, what is wrong with Scott Ritter? Is he insane or what?
87 posted on 03/26/2003 5:04:46 PM PST by thathamiltonwoman
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To: lilylangtree
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.

88 posted on 03/26/2003 5:07:55 PM PST by Cold Heat
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To: tessalu
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.

89 posted on 03/26/2003 5:08:04 PM PST by Rome2000
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To: dmcg_98
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?
90 posted on 03/26/2003 5:08:14 PM PST by boltCutter
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To: dmcg_98
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.


91 posted on 03/26/2003 5:10:02 PM PST by henbane
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To: dmcg_98
Another talking head....the mouth moves and nothing comes out.
92 posted on 03/26/2003 5:12:43 PM PST by BriarBey
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To: dmcg_98
Another talking head....the mouth moves and nothing comes out.
93 posted on 03/26/2003 5:13:02 PM PST by BriarBey
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To: zencycler
It was a cut and paste from a news link ... tag the journalist.
94 posted on 03/26/2003 5:13:41 PM PST by dmcg_98
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To: CurlyBill
"There has got to be a middle school around here somewhere!"

Exactly! ROFLOL!

95 posted on 03/26/2003 5:16:37 PM PST by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = VERY expensive, very SCRATCHY toilet paper.)
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To: dmcg_98
Why is anyone listening to this a-hole? He's lucky he's not wearing an orange pantsuit playing house with his cell mate.
96 posted on 03/26/2003 5:17:23 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: hole_n_one
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.

97 posted on 03/26/2003 5:17:45 PM PST by Maedhros (I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element.)
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To: dmcg_98
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

98 posted on 03/26/2003 5:20:20 PM PST by MinuteGal (THIS JUST IN ! Astonishing fare reduction for FReeps Ahoy Cruise! Check it out, pronto!)
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To: dmcg_98
Wow, Ritter... Project much? I mean, weren't YOU the one who slinked off with yoru hands between your legs????
99 posted on 03/26/2003 5:20:54 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (Beware of Disinformation and propaganda)
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To: dmcg_98
"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.
100 posted on 03/26/2003 5:22:26 PM PST by HitmanLV
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