Hackworth--Ritter was right

[eridani]

http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=Hacks%20Target%20Homepage.db&command=viewone&op=t&id=52&rnd=937.7758801612099
By David H. Hackworth

Like it or not, Maj. Scott Ritter had it right all along.

Most of the rest of us, from the president to his key advisers, such as Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, Wolfowitz and Tenet, to the majority of Congress and to most of the talking heads – including the pre-Iraq War NBC analyst David Kay, who reported WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) behind every Iraqi sand dune – blew it big-time when it came down to the awesome arsenal that Saddam had supposedly squirreled away.

Ritter, the United Nations’ chief weapons inspector in Iraq until 1998, took us all on – virtually alone, against incredible odds – stating, “Iraq is not a threat to the U.S.,” and begging the American people to take charge and not “sit back and allow your government to go to war against Iraq ... (without all) the facts on the table to back this war up.”

[revcarol]

1. And Kucinich was right

and Ritter endorsed him.

[JasonDeter]

2. Thank you for posting that. I just emailed NBC

asking them if they were going to give Scott Ritter an apology and hold this corrupt administration, the republicans and the media accoutable for the scandalous way they treated Scott Ritter. I remember it well.

If your interested here's some email addy's

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[grasswire]

3. Aaron Brown really needs to show some humility...

....and apologize to both Ritter and to Will Pitt. He treated them shamefully after allowing some stupid freepers to slander them.

[Thoth]

4. Good luck waiting for that to happen!

One of the mediawhores apologizing! I want to see it. *Yes, I know that Bill O'Reilly half-apologized yesterday. But he's blaming Tenet for the "intelligence failure".

[DrBB]

5. I heard a guest on NPR get hit with the Ritter stick last week

Somebody on one of the call-in shows. Guest was talking about intelligence failures--can't remember the exact context. But a caller said "lots of people got it right," and mentioned the RITTER had been out there anywhere he could saying all this stuff ahead of time. And the guest got completely disgusted and just did the old ad-hominem response and cited the canard: "Ritter's credibility was blown because he made a movie with Iraqi money."

Infuriating. Hey you stupid p.o.s., leaving aside the fact that the movie he made was funded by an EMIGRE Iraqi AMERICAN CITIZEN, the point is, HE WAS FUCKING

RIGHT

.

I'd say that establishes his credibility pretty well, hm?

[noonwitch]

6. What I think happened to the WMD in Iraq.

The intelligence material quoted regarding Saddam's plans to restart his WMD program was from 1998 or so. Clinton used it to justify some strategic bombing of sites in Iraq. There were no WMD found 4 years later, and now Bush is saying that Saddam had plans for producing the weapons, not the actual weapons themselves (despite what he said in the 2002 SOTU address).

My theory is that Clinton's strategy worked-either the bombings destroyed the production of the weapons or it scared Saddam into backing off of his plans. I just wish someone in the media would report the possibility of this theory.

[durutti]

8. Oh, please...

All Good comes from Clinton and all Evil comes from Bush. Feh...

Ritter opposed Clinton's 1998 bombings, BTW.

[KharmaTrain]

7. Ritter Needs To Speak Out...Be On The McCain Commission

If McCain wants to prove he's not a puppet of RoveCo. his first move would be to name Ritter to the commission. There's no man who know the 1991-1998 situation on the ground in Iraq than Ritter and has been 100% on his predictions about what is now happening.

I saw him on C-Span a couple weeks ago and he hinted that he's been blacklisted by the major cable channels. My bets are Rove will make life rough for the WH media pool for those who cross him.

I'm also glad to see Hack finally has come around on one of the few issues I had with him...his lambasting of Ritter prior to the run up to the invasion. Maybe someone knows how these two fell out, but it's good to see those who recognize when they've made a misjudgment and that we all ended up on the same page. A lot of Americans are coming to that realization now...and it's Ritter's time to speak out.

[eridani]

9. Yes

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