Scott Ritter Talks Tough with High School Students About Iraq, Iran

[kerrygoddess]

Exclusive: Scott Ritter Talks Tough with High School Students About Iraq, Iran and the Future of Their Country
April 29th, 2006 @ 3:58 pm

One of the greatest catalysts for me to get involved with politics after years of political apathy, was my teenager. Her future lies in delicate balance as our country and the future of our children, continues to be sold out by the Bush administration and their supporters. Thursday morning I had the opportunity to join my daughter at her school to listen to Scott Ritter (see earlier post here) talk about Iraq, Iran and the need for our youth to get involved with their future and the future of our country.



Scott Ritter, who served in the Marines for 12 years, opened his talk with same group of students from North Hollywood High School, by telling them he had been talking to high school students across the country since before the war in Iraq started. “Four students” Ritter said, “who were at events before the war in Iraq, have died in the war since then.”

“The cost of war” Ritter said, “goes beyond the thousands in the hospitals around the country” who’s lives will never be the same, living with lost limbs, and PTSD. “The other cost of war” he told the students, “is that you have to shoot someone and they have lives just like you. You have to live with that. When you go to war, you are scared to death.”

On his flight to Los Angeles, Ritter said he spoke with Marines coming home from Iraq. They told him, it was now as if, “We’re going to war for the sole purpose of keeping our friends alive.”

“We are now heading towards a war with Iran,” Ritter told the students and it’s going to be ‘Your War.’” “Gas and oil prices are going to get worse. My generation let you down. Hopefully, you are going to get up and fix it” because he explained, “it’s your future.”

There were a few things I did not agree with Ritter on, one was telling the students that “Congress has failed it’s responsibility” in referring to the Iraq War. Ritter failed to explain to the students that Bush, stepped over Congress, in his rush to war and he also neglected to tell them that there are members of Congress who are working on plans to get us out of Iraq — like John Kerry, Jack Murtha and others.

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[Mind_your_head]

1. North Hollywood High?

Home of the original 'valley girl'?????

What-evah......

(good intention....way wrong school.....)

:rofl:

[kerrygoddess]

2. Hmmm... Tell that to the Highly Gifted Magnet Students

and the low income kids who might have gotten a lesson in why not to sign up and join the military.

What-evah...... is right. It's too damn bad that we don't have more schools doing stuff like this.

Oh and FYI,, it might interest you to know that a speechwriter of note, who wrote a speech for Clinton and wrote for Gore and Kerry, graduated from North Hollywwod Hish. What-evah my ass!