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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rollcast... who wrote (110)	1/5/2003 12:46:19 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Wow! I finally met someone whose never called anyone by the wrong name before. Anyway, you are correct, sir. Ritter's first name is Scott and not John. Thank you for the correction. Perhaps some day, when you're bored or not in an SI attack mode, you can research the times of my posts on days where I've done multiple posting. You'll get a sense of my typing speed. And then, if you've still got time, you can wonder if someone who types so fast could possibly make a mistake. What I find surprising is that you'd attempt to capitalize on such an error. Perhaps this is a telling point in our minor debate here. Anyway, back to what we're discussing here. Those C-SPAN poster boys televisted Ritter's speach before the Iraqi Parliament on September 8th. Here it is: cspan.org And here's something a bit deeper: Therein lies the rub: According to Scott Ritter, an American U.N. Special Commission weapons inspector in Iraq for seven years, no such capability exists. In the 1990s, inspectors destroyed 38,500 prohibited chemical warheads, and 817 of Iraq's 819 Soviet-build ballistic missiles. Iraq simply does not have weapons of mass destruction or threatening ties to international terrorism. Therefore, no premise for a war in Iraq exists. In Ritter's opinion, the threat to Iraq is about nothing more than domestic American politics and is based upon speculation and rhetoric rather than fact. The weapons inspector argues that the manufacture of nuclear weapons would emit gamma rays that could be detected if they did, in fact, exist. The Republican Scott Ritter is probably the Bush administration's shrewdest critic. His book "War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You To Know" tells a different story than that of the president. According to Ritter, in 1998 a Republican-controlled Congress passed the Iraqi Liberation Act, adding legal weight to the administration's decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power. "It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime," the act states. dpmms.cam.ac.uk