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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (4540)	9/12/2002 4:02:39 PM
From: patim	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15516

Thanks for this infor. I think O'Reilly is one of the biggest fools on TV, but I will certainly tune in tonight. Scott Ritter is one important person in this uphill struggle.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (4540)	9/12/2002 6:34:45 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15516

[INSPECTIONS IN IRAQ] Excerpt from the Jim Lehrer News Hour: pbs.org "In a recent address, Vice President Cheney argued that sending inspectors back into Iraq would not eliminate the weapons threat posed by the Saddam Hussein regime. Two former weapons inspectors who worked in Iraq discuss the pros and cons of further UN monitoring. Background Report " MARGARET WARNER: Scott Ritter, how effective could -- let's say ideal conditions applied, and we can get later to whether that can ever come about - but let's say it was an ideal inspection regime, how effective could it be? The effectiveness of inspections SCOTT RITTER: Well, first of all, I find it amazing that people say inspections are past. Under less than ideal conditions we achieved a 90 to 95 percent level of disarmament in Iraq, eliminating 100 percent of Iraq's factories that are used to produce weapons of mass destruction, together with the introduction equipment. Inspections were extremely successful. Now, under ideal conditions you could have 100 percent certainty, but that's not going to happen. But let's keep in mind inspections did work and, if given a chance to work, would work again. MARGARET WARNER: But you heard Vice President Cheney say that, in fact, he didn't believe inspections did really work and that Saddam Hussein was able to continue working on his programs even during inspections. SCOTT RITTER: That's absolutely absurd. Look, I ran the concealment investigation program from 1993 to 1998. And I can tell you right now that while Iraqi cooperation wasn't perfect and while they did conceal what Vice President Cheney said to the American people is tantamount to a lie. The CIA knows that, Hussein Kamal, the son-in-law of Saddam Hussein when he defected clearly stated that under his instructions all weapons programs were eliminated. This is fact. He didn't lead us to a document. The Iraqi government did. The bottom line is inspection worked. That's the fact. No matter what Dick Cheney says in terms of rewriting history, inspections worked and if given a chance could work again. "