Where is Scott Ritter?

[Ilsa]

Zmolak: Scott, I saw you on TV some time during the war when the US troops were getting kind of bogged down in southern Iraq, and the media was making quite a big noise about your speech that I think you gave in Portugal, saying that the US was going to be leaving Iraq with its tail between its legs, whether you actually meant at the time that the US was not actually going to take Baghdad and sp forth or whether you were talking more about a long-term situation in which the US occupation of Iraq would be a disaster.

Ritter: The statement I made was that the United States would be able to win every tactical invasion it fights, which means every time we go face-to face with an Iraqi military threat, we will prevail. We will prevail on the outskirts of Baghdad, we will prevail in Baghdad, and we will prevail in BAghdad, and we will prevail though out Iraq. But we will lose the war. We will leave Iraq with our tail between our legs. The analogy that I've used many times is that Afghanistan and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, where they were able to successfully take Kabul, take the palace, take every major urban center in Afghanistan, and yet, after nearly ten years, they left Afghanistan with their tail between their legs. They got beat. Because war isn't simply a matter of putting troops on the ground and closing with and destroying the enemy through fire power maneuvering. War is an extension of politics. We have an objective in Iraq of liberating Iraq. You can't liberate a people that don't want to be liberated.

http://traprockpeace.org/RitterTraprockPeace090703.pdf
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[Crazy Dave]

1. Probably online looking for more 16 year old girls

"The source said Ritter had arranged in an Internet chat room to meet with the girl at a Burger King in Colonie, a suburb of Albany, so she could witness him masturbating. The source said Ritter was charged with "attempted endangerment of the welfare of a child," a Class B misdemeanor."

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/22/ritter.arrest/

Mug Shot


Typically a high priced lawyer gets these guys off the hook by saying that there was no actual child involved in the incident therefore no crime was committed. Me personally, I think we have more decent and law abiding war critics out there who deserve more respect and admiration than does Ritter.

[Dr.Phool]

2. Probably Gitmo.

[doc03]

3. I saw him on c-span, I believe, about a month ago.

[LSK]

4. he has a book out about Iran now

[madfloridian]

5. He was on Randi Rhodes recently.

For a long interview.