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| Scott Ritter: Bush and Blair Are Comparable to Nazis |
| 2005-10-08 |
| Tony Blair and George Bush were compared to Nazi war criminals yesterday by Scott Ritter, the former UN chief weapons inspector. "Both these men could be pulled up as war criminals for engaging in actions that we condemned Germany in 1946 for doing," he said. He said the Prime Minister and the US President were "guilty of the crime of planning and committing aggressive warfare". Speaking in London at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Mr Ritter said the two leaders would have been in a much stronger position if they had got a UN resolution explicitly authorising the invasion. He also said Britain gained very little from the "special relationship". "Britain gets nothing, other than to say they are America's closest ally in Europe," he said. Mr Ritter, who was a UN weapons inspector in Iraq between 1991 and 1998, said intelligence services had been correct to say that Iraq's missile programme had been destroyed soon after the first Gulf conflict of 1991. He recalled how he delivered a report in 1992 stating that the programme had been eliminated. It was met with "stony silence" and he was told that Iraq still possessed 200 missiles. The inspectors returned to track down the weapons, which never materialised. |
| Posted by:Captain America |
| #20 Ooopss... those were Ritters words Bardo. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-10-08 16:43 |
| #19 Those were Ritter's words DG. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-10-08 16:42 |
| #18 jeebus DG! - that's strike one |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-10-08 14:56 |
| #17 Scott Ritter on August 31, 1998 NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: "I think the danger right now is that without effective inspections, without effective monitoring, Iraq can in a very short period of time measure the months, reconstitute chemical biological weapons, long-range ballistic missiles to deliver these weapons, and even certain aspects of their nuclear weaponization program." http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec98/ritter_8-31.html |
| Posted by: Darrell 2005-10-08 13:42 |
| #16 Here, DepotGuy, you need a reality check: http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/22/ritter.arrest/ |
| Posted by: Darrell 2005-10-08 13:17 |
| #15 Finally, anyone who believes the insinuation of Ritter being a pedophile is anything more then an attempt to discredit him needs a reality check. He was freaking arrested! No, it's not a conviction, but, Christ, it's not like it's made up from whole cloth! |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-10-08 12:10 |
| #14 Excuse me #13 are you Pat Buchanan? |
| Posted by: Bardo 2005-10-08 11:44 |
| #13 The neocons believe in what they think is a noble truth, power of the few, the select few. These are godless people who want power, nothing more. They do not have a country or an allegiance, they have an agenda. These people might hold American passports, but they are not Americans because they do not believe in the Constitution. They believe in the power of the few, not a government for or by the people. They are a few and their agenda is global. |
| Posted by: Ritter 2005-10-08 11:20 |
| #12 Personally, I think he was on the take. FOX has been doing an incredible investigation of their own on the UN, and the Oil-for-Food is just the tip of the iceberg. The MSM ignores it all, but lots of names are coming out. Advanced knowledge of contracts and awarding the bids to cronies for such stuff as troop meals is rampant. Anyone checked on his off-shore bank account? |
| Posted by: Danielle 2005-10-08 10:56 |
| #11 Scott is Cindy Sheehan in drag. Nothing could be further from the truth. Nazi comparison aside, Ritter is a former marine and has never taken an Anti-War stance. In fact he wasn't even against Iraqi regime change. He simply questioned the legality of the coalitions approach. Before the invasion of Iraq he was ridiculed and marginalized for stating opinions contrary to the Bush Administrations reasons for urgency. (Nuclear WMD program) Most, if not all, turned out to correct. Finally, anyone who believes the insinuation of Ritter being a pedophile is anything more then an attempt to discredit him needs a reality check. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2005-10-08 10:35 |
| #10 "Both these men could be pulled up as war criminals for engaging in actions that we condemned Germany in 1946 for doing," He forgets that the war crimes trials in 1946 were based on post hoc laws. One could equally well argue that Shroeder and Chirac could be condemed by a similar mechanism for willful disregard of their citizens safety (amongst other things). |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-10-08 05:26 |
| #9 Some people get used to being important, and will do anything to stay in the public eye. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2005-10-08 04:53 |
| #8 Saddam bribed thousands of people. Hitchens claims that former Swedish UNSCOM head Ralf Ekeus was offered 2 Million by Tariq Aziz. Hitchens also claims that back in the 80's when he was a relatively young columnist with a relatively obscure British Socialist rag, an attache from the Iraqi Embassy came for dinner and explicityly offered gifts for favorable coverage of the regime. Whether Ritter was bribed or extorted with preadolescent girls or is just turned into a moonbat, I cannot say. But it's not hard to believe that something is up. |
| Posted by: John in Tokyo 2005-10-08 03:20 |
| #7 Little girls (and I bet video that would get him 20 years) and $500,000 (for a film, ahem) from Saddam's agent. BTW, I wonder if Ritter ever finished the film. Either way, Saddam is getting his money's worth. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-10-08 03:14 |
| #6 Consider the source. He has a thing for little girls. Something not quite right up stairs. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2005-10-08 02:35 |
| #5 Scott is Cindy Sheehan in drag. He is too much a coward to shoot his mouth off on US soil. He goes instead to Galloway World. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-10-08 02:04 |
| #4 you're 11? No kidding! I love 11-yr-old girls! I mean LOVE. Saddam fed that habit for me, but now I'm on my own and so ronery |
| Posted by: Chat Room Scott 2005-10-08 01:39 |
| #3 Don't forget to keep underage daughters away from the Burger King in the area he lives as well... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-10-08 01:26 |
| #2 Ritter,former Marine intelligence officer, and one time lead inspector for UNSCOM. JAE, Ritter is a mystery to me too. course i never have met him but he appeared to have a *break* of some kind. He was such a hard charging inspector and testified that way in front of congress. Then bingo...launches new a career. Full blown asshat, gets busted surfing for minors and the rest is history. |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-10-08 00:55 |
| #1 I usually give someone's pedigree some credence and since I share a kindred military experience with Scott, I want to give him the benefit of the doubt. But he has clearly demonstrated such a departure from anything I regard as reasonable I can only conclude that he has snapped or whiffed WMD while searching in Iraq..... what an asshat he has become! |
| Posted by: Just About Enough! 2005-10-08 00:20 |