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A former UN weapons inspector has released a new book in which he accuses President Bush of illegally invading Iraq and calls for “regime change” in the United States at the next election. Scott Ritter said Bush lied to the American people and Congress about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. He said UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan lacked courage, and that former chief weapons inspector Hans Blix was “a moral and intellectual coward”. Ritter, a former US marine, was a weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998. He has been a vocal critical of Washington’s policy on Iraq. He...

Politics - AFP Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq a US "lie": ex-weapons inspector 2 hours, 45 minutes ago Add Politics - AFP to My Yahoo! UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - UN former weapons inspector Scott Ritter said that US statements about Iraq (news - web sites) possessing weapons of mass destruction before launching war on Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) regime were a "lie." AFP/File Photo "The entire case the Bush administration made against Iraq is a lie," Ritter told reporters, also criticizing the media for being too willing to accept the weapons of mass destruction allegations as...

Anti-war activist to speak at forum Scott Ritter speech to Bethlehem peace group likely to be the first after the release of new book By ANNE MILLER, Staff writer First published: Thursday, July 3, 2003 Former United Nations weapons inspector, anti-war activist and Delmar resident Scott Ritter will speak at Town Hall on July 20th at a forum sponsored by the Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace. The event is scheduled for 3 to 5 that afternoon. "A number of us know him," said Joe Lombardo, a member of the BNP coordinating committee. "He's supportive of our work, and we're supportive...

Question: I have not yet reached the age of puberty. Is it correct that a girl could get married before her menses start, or is that just a traditional myth?. Answer: Praise be to Allaah. Firstly: Marriage to a young girl before she reaches puberty is permissible according to sharee’ah, and it was narrated that there was scholarly consensus on this point. 1 – Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “And those of your women as have passed the age of monthly courses, for them the ‘Iddah (prescribed period), if you have doubt (about their periods), is three months;...

Did anyone see the ad on FNC this a.m.? It said Ritter to "come clean" on the Factor tonight. However there's no mention of it on his or fox's web-sites. Should be quite bogus if true!

The main drawback of being a professional opinionist is that you’re expected to have opinions on everything. When your average moviegoer leaves the theater, he shrugs and says, "Let’s go eat." That’s not an option available to Roger Ebert, who has to string it out for a few more paragraphs. But just lately, on being urged by various correspondents to weigh in on this or that allegedly burning controversy, I find myself shrugging, "Let’s go eat." Example One: Senator Santorum’s thoughts on homosexuality. I won’t bother printing the quote, since it’s rambling and incoherent, and even when you fill in...

Former U.N. inspector featured at Peace Action dinner Even six years ago, Scott Ritter could hardly have imagined himself the toast of the liberal, anti-war community. “I’m about as redneck as you can get,” said the 6-foot, 3-inch former Marine on Sunday to the 370 persons attending NJ Peace Action’s 46th Annual Dinner at the Friar Tuck Inn in Cedar Grove. “I’m a conservative Republican who voted for [current president] George Bush. It just goes to show we can have issues that unite all Americans.” The subject that persuaded Ritter to join hands with the peaceniks? The U.S.-led military campaign...

Anti-war set given anti-Bush pep talk Monday, May 5, 2003 by RICHARD COWEN CEDAR GROVE - More than three weeks have passed since the fall of Iraq, and the 400 peace activists who gathered at the Friar Tuck Inn on Sunday have the same concern as President Bush:Where are Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction?The answer, as provided by Scott Ritter, a former chief weapons inspector in Iraq for the United Nations, is that there are none to be found - now, nor before the United States launched its invasion in March."A great lie has been told," Ritter said to...

Iraq's intelligence services bought gold jewellery that they planned to give to the wife and daughter of Scott Ritter, the controversial former weapons inspector, as part of a clandestine project to encourage him to work closely with Saddam Hussein's regime, according to documents discovered by The Telegraph in Baghdad. According to the documents, which were found in the bombed headquarters of Iraq's intelligence services, the cost of the presents was approved at the highest level in an attempt to develop "strong relations with them [Mr Ritter's family] that affect positively on our relations with him". The documents say that the...

The worst of the worst The temptation is strong -- so, so strong -- to shove heaping platefuls of crow in front of the loudest anti-war caterwaulers and force them to eat their own misguided words. There are so many who richly deserve the treatment: MSNBC's Chris Matthews, who railed that invading Iraq would be "worse than Vietnam;" Hull Selectwoman Regina Burke, who refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and then accused President Bush of wearing the American flag "as a toga;" Senator and presidential wannabe John Kerry, for demanding "regime change" in Washington; former NBC reporter Peter...

Their  Event Starts at Noon try to get there between 11-11:30 AMHere's the chant "Hey Hey Ho Ho, Come pick up your Garafalo".http://njpeaceaction.org/events/ritterdinner.pdfhttp://www.njpeaceaction.org/New Jersey Peace Action's 46 th Annual Dinner Featuring: Former Chief UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq SCOTT RITTER Sunday, May 4th 2003 at 12 Noon - 4 PM  Friar Tuck Inn, Cedar Grove, NJ 691 Pompton Avenue, Cedar Grove, NJ 07009 (973) 239-4500 (973) 239-3150 (fax) map Scott Ritter joined the armed forces after college. He worked as a military intelligence officer in the 1980s in the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. A former major in...

http://njpeaceaction.org/events/ritterdinner.pdfhttp://www.njpeaceaction.org/New Jersey Peace Action's 46 th Annual Dinner Featuring: Former Chief UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq SCOTT RITTER Sunday, May 4th 2003 at 10 AMFriar Tuck Inn, Cedar Grove, NJ 691 Pompton Avenue, Cedar Grove, NJ 07009 (973) 239-4500 (973) 239-3150 (fax) map Scott Ritter joined the armed forces after college. He worked as a military intelligence officer in the 1980s in the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. A former major in the U. S. Marines, during the Gulf War he served as a ballistic missile expert under Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf. He joined the U. N. Special...

Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., who famously traveled to Baghdad last fall and pronounced President Bush a liar, accepted a cash payment less than a month later from an Iraqi-American businessman with ties to Saddam Hussein. McDermott collected the payment from Shakir al-Khafaji, the same Detroit-based Baghdad apologist who paid former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter $400,000 two years ago to make a pro-Saddam documentary about Iraq. Appearing live from Baghdad on the Sept. 29 broadcast of ABC's "This Week," McDermott proclaimed, "The president of the United States will lie to the American people in order to get us into...

If it turns out there was an Al Qaeda/Iraq connection, it would be great to be prepared with celebrity quotes denying that connection.Here are two from Sarandon and Streisand.Sarandon plans to act up before State of the Union WASHINGTON - Just before President Bush delivers his State of the Union address tonight, activist actress Susan Sarandon plans to upstage him. "Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, 'What did Iraq do to us?'" the 56-year-old New Yorker asks in a 30-second television spot that...

Scott Ritter, ex-Marine captain, ex-weapons inspector, traitorous mouthpiece and apologist for the old Saddam regime AND known child molesting pervert, recently wrote an article defending a fellow traitor, George Galloway, a member of Britain's Parliament who is an anti-war activist. Evidence has recently surfaced that indicates Galloway was paid big bucks by Iraq for his help in promoting the Iraqi cause just like Ritter was. Ritter used to be a gung-ho advocate for disarming Iraq but a payment of over $400,000 from the Iraqi government to produce a pro-Iraqi documentary called "In Shifting Sands" has changed his views about Iraq...

Just heard on Fox news that Scott Ritter was on the Iraqi dole.

I was shocked to read about the allegations, ostensibly based upon documents discovered in Iraq, that George Galloway was somehow compensated financially by the Iraqi government for championing its cause. I was shocked because, if these allegations prove to be true, then the integrity and credibility of a man for whom I have great respect would be dramatically undermined.

I was shocked to read about the allegations, ostensibly based upon documents discovered in Iraq, that George Galloway was somehow compensated financially by the Iraqi government for championing its cause. I was shocked because, if these allegations prove to be true, then the integrity and credibility of a man for whom I have great respect would be dramatically undermined. But I was also shocked because of the timing of these allegations. Having been on the receiving end of smear campaigns designed to assassinate the character of someone in opposition to the powers that be, I have grown highly suspicious of...

"These dramatic revelations come just when Britain needs an outspoken voice of dissent more than ever" Scott Ritter Friday April 25, 2003 The Guardian I was shocked to read about the allegations, ostensibly based upon documents discovered in Iraq, that George Galloway was somehow compensated financially by the Iraqi government for championing its cause. I was shocked because, if these allegations prove to be true, then the integrity and credibility of a man for whom I have great respect would be dramatically undermined. But I was also shocked because of the timing of these allegations. Having been on the receiving...

Accuracy in Media has also learned: The existence of children’s prisons in Iraq was reported last September by Scott Ritter, former U.N. weapons inspector. Ritter said that his inspection team had first come across a children’s prison in Baghdad January 1998. The prison Ritter saw held toddlers to pre-adolescents and was for the children of parents who opposed the regime.