Scott Ritter
Scott Ritter
William Scott Ritter Jr.was a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, and later a critic of United States foreign policy in the Middle East. Prior to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Ritter stated that Iraq possessed no significant weapons of mass destructioncapabilities, becoming "the loudest and most credible skeptic of the Bush administration’s contention that Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction." He received harsh criticism from the political establishment but became a popular...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth15 July 1961
CountryUnited States of America
has not been demonstrated to pose a threat worthy of war at this time.
Both these men could be pulled up as war criminals for engaging in actions that we condemned Germany in 1946 for doing.
We have inspectors on the ground. They're getting compliance. They're doing their job and they're not finding anything that warrants a threat worthy of war,
I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.
I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.
That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.
We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause...
The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.
We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.
War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.
It is complicated because you need members of all fields, including chemists, physicists and biologists. They are the heart and soul of the process.
This refusal means we can't carry out our inspections -- it is a failure of Iraq to comply with obligations,
This refusal ... in effect means we cannot carry out our inspection and is a failure of Iraq to comply with its obligations.
We have thousands of American veterans who continue to suffer,