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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (124548)	2/9/2004 9:33:57 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

He didn't say we shouldn't worry about him. He didn't say don't do more inspections. He said, "I have never given Iraq a clean bill of health! Never! Never! I've said that no one has backed up any allegations that Iraq has reconstituted WMD capability with anything that remotely resembles substantive fact." That is very different from saying what you say he said. No one ever suggested that Saddam should be allowed to go inspection free. Least of all Ritter. He never flopped into saying that Saddam was suddenly a "good" guy. Yes, he said Saddam wasn't a threat any longer to his neighbors--that was true. Iraqi society was in bad shape, it would appear. If what Ritter said in the interview you linked is correct, it was as much or more Butler and, perhaps especially, Albright and perhaps Clinton's fault that inspections were ended in the first place, back in '98.