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In reply to the discussion: how depressing is this? Scott Ritter goes to prison [View all]Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)After starting an illegal, immoral, and unnecessary war in Iraq using lies, rumors, and innuendo to whip up the fearmongering in this country that was so prevalent after 9/11.
And while Bush is still walking around as a free man in this country, a former Marine is sent to prison under suspicious circumstances.
Scott Ritter was a Marine Corps officer who worked with UNESCO as a weapons inspector and one who tried to stop the Iraq War by going public with what he knew about the absence of WMDs in Iraq.
Ritter appeared on Phil Donahue's cable program in February of 2003 and told Donahue - and the entire world - that there were no WMDs in Iraq. The UN inspectors hadn't found any evidence of large quantities of WMDs in the entire time he was there searching for them. The former UNESCO chief inspector was on Donahue's program with Ritter and he agreed that the many sanctioned UN searches for WMDs had failed to turn up any WMDs.
Semper Fi, Scott Ritter.