As Re...Inspections were working however.
How so. There were no inspectors after 1998, until GW started putting troops on Iraqs borders, in 2002. Secondly, surely you didn't get that from Scotts book, and Scott hasn't been back doing inspections since 1998. From Scotts book review.
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Although this policy of capitulation would be regrettable coming from anyone, it is especially unfortunate coming from a person who reports from first-hand experience that "Iraq had lied [to UNSCOM] on every level." After experiencing the reality that "Iraq would go through the motions of disarmament, but not disarm," he now asks for more promises of WMD disarmament? Ritter wants the United States to train the Iraqi military in return for utterly meaningless assurances about recognizing Kuwait? Having learned that Iraq's "anti-terrorist school" was actually a school for terrorists, he wants the U.S. government now to pay for Iraqi economic development? In contrast to this, the much-reviled Clinton policy on Iraq looks positively brilliant.
In the end, Ritter cuts a highly erratic figure. He resigned from UNSCOM to protest its lack of effectiveness -then proceeded to do UNSCOM immeasurable harm with his revelations about CIA meddling. While vividly aware of the horrors Saddam has inflicted on the Iraqi people, from brutality to impoverishment, he nonetheless writes that they see the dictator "as a symbol of hope in their world of despair." He expresses revulsion at the Saddam regime but at one point (on learning about the CIA using UNSCOM to scout out information), he writes that he "began to understand the Iraqi point of view." He blasts the Clinton Administration for fecklessness, then proposes a far worse plan of appeasement.
Ritter came out saying Saddam had no more WMD's and the Bushies smeared and slandered him.
Now he says that, after his employer put out a tape, with Scott in it, who was paid millions by Saddam in a bribe. That isn't what Scott said when he wrote the book. |
