Fwd: scott ritter

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Aug 5 14:19:03 PDT 2002


Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 17:13:22 -0400 From: Jude Wanniski <jwanniski at polyconomics.com> Subject: scott ritter

Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter interview on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. Ritter at his best in a sensational show. Everyone I know who has watched it has raved about its importance in weighing against war with Iraq. You will need realvideo to watch. He is emphatic in arguing that Richard Butler was compromised in permitting his team of weapons inspectors to violate the UN mandate and permit its US agents to instead attempt to target Saddam Hussein for assassination. He makes mincemeat of Donald Rumsfeld's assertions that Saddam has chemibio capabilities today. This is a man who was hailed by the news media when he was withdrawn from Iraq for stating that there were inspections still to be done there, but who was not invited to the Senate Foreign Relations hearings last week, as Biden knew he would defuse the war with Iraq he is still supporting.

<http://video.c-span.org:8080/ramgen/idrive/wj20020801.rm?start=49:11.2&end=1:33:13>



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