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Scott Ritter - Former Weapons Inspector - Audio from Monday Night
Last night about 200 people showed up at the Current Affairs Bookstore in San Diego to hear Scott Ritter discuss the reasons that now is not the time for war against Iraq. If you missed the program here is the archived audio.
Archived MP3s of Scott Ritter's recent talk at the Current Affairs bookstore in San Diego, California can be found at:
(lower quality, smaller file - 23.2 MB)
http://www.groovy.net/archive/scott_ritter-20030120-56bps.mp3
(higher quality, larger file - 79.8 MB)
http://www.groovy.net/archive/scott_ritter-20030120-192bps.mp3
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From the Current Affairs web page describing the event:
Scott Ritter spent seven years in Iraq as an arms inspector for the United Nations. His 1998 resignation as the U.N.'s chief weapons inspector there made front-page headlines around the world. In Endgame, Ritter draws on his experiences to take us inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq and to explain where U.S. policy in Iraq went wrong.
Ritter describes in detail the ways that Saddam tried to foil inspectors by concealing his weapons programs. He brings readers with him inside some of Iraq's most carefully guarded sites and shows us dramatic face-offs between U.N. inspectors and hostile Iraqi guards and officials. But Ritter criticizes the U.S. for squandering an international consensus on Iraq and trying to use the inspections process for uniquely American goals. He argues strongly against the proposed American military strike against Iraq, suggesting instead a bold and innovative solution to the long-standing crisis. NG
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Downloaded the MP3, Ritter makes more sense than the clowns running the government, it would be too much to expect that the vapid US 'major' media would pay any attention to him, other than their usual dissing of his efforts.
what a coincidence that these revelations about Ritter just happened to turn up the same week as the inspectors' report.
Downloaded the MP3, Ritter makes more sense than the clowns running the government
Was that Ritter 1998 version, or post-1998 version.
He makes sense because he's speaking the rhetoric you're receptive too.
the bush Cabal makes sense because their speaking the rhetoric you're receptive too.
Hey mike, Cry me a river!! Stupidass!!
"revelations about Ritter"
ask him
ask him
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030122-091722-8355r
Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter refused to comment on reports that he had been arrested in an Internet sex sting.
"Sorry, you must have the wrong person," Ritter told the Schenectady (N.Y.) Daily Gazette, which broke the story.
Ritter was in San Diego promoting his book, "Endgame: Solving the Iraq Crisis," but his wife told WNYT-TV that they had no comment.
The Daily Gazette reported that Albany County District Attorney Paul Clyne fired a veteran assistant district attorney last week for failing to inform him of a "sensitive" case.
Clyne refused to comment on the Ritter case but he told the Albany Times Union, "Based on an inquiry, I determined that I should have been apprised of the existence of the case, and I was not, so Cindy Preiser was fired for failure to keep me abreast of what was going on in Colonie court."
The arrest occurred in June 2001 in the Albany suburb of Colonie after Ritter allegedly arranged to meet with whom he thought was 16-year-old girl he had met on an Internet chat room, who was in reality an undercover police officer.
Ritter was arrested for attempted child endangerment, a class B misdemeanor, but Ritter's attorney and a Colonie Court judge agreed "to adjourn the matter in contemplation of a dismissal," according to the Schenectady Gazette.
Generally, if there are no more allegations against the defendant for the next 6 months, the case is dismissed and the record sealed. According to WTEN-TV, Ritter underwent court-ordered sex offender counseling from an Albany psychologist.
Although the court record is sealed, WNYT-TV reported that in 2001 the television station had made a report that a 39-year-old William Ritter of Delmar had been arrested on charges he attempted to lure an underage girl he met on the Internet to a fast-food restaurant.
Ritter, a 41-year-old native of Gainesville, Fla., whose full name is William Scott Ritter Jr., has lived in the Albany suburb of Delmar with his wife and their twin daughters for two years. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Gulf War. After the war, he left the Marines and became a U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998.
The Colonie arrest was under the name William Ritter. Norah Murphy, Ritter's attorney, confirmed her client was arrested in June 2001, but refused further comment.
According to a report in the Albany Times Union, the June 2001 arrest was not William Ritter's first brush with the law. In April 2001, William Ritter attempted to meet whom he thought was 14-year-old girl he met online but was an undercover police officer posing as an underage minor. He was met at the meeting place by police officers but released without being charged.
During the administration of Bill Clinton, Ritter was an outspoken critic because "Iraq was winning its bid to retain its prohibited weapons."
A CNN report in 1998 said that Iraqi officials blocked Ritter's team from conducting searches of possible Iraqi weapons sites claiming Ritter was a spy for the U.S. CIA, a charge the United Nations and the United States denied.
At that time, the U.N. Security Council approved a statement "deploring" the Iraqi move to block Ritter's team and then President Clinton said Iraqi officials would not be allowed to decide the makeup of inspection teams.
Ritter resigned from the United Nations in 1998 because he felt "Iraq remained insufficiently disarmed and ready to restart its nuclear and biological weapons programs."
The 6-foot, 4-inch former Marine, changed his view on Iraq and became a regular on network and cable news programs criticizing President George W. Bush and calling for his impeachment for putting members of the American military in a war he considers "illegal and based on a foundation of lies." He says that Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons program either accounted for or destroyed.
Ritter explained his reasons for his change of heart in the documentary "In Shifting Sands," that he wrote and directed. A wealthy Iraqi-American businessman, Shakir al Khafaji, has reportedly funded $400,000 toward the 91-minute account of the U.N. weapons inspection team in Iraq, known as UNSCOM.
The former inspector also spoke before the Iraq National Assembly last September urging Iraq to allow weapons inspectors to return.
Ritter called the U.N. weapons inspector's recent discovery of empty warheads in Iraq as "an accounting problem," and an indication that the weapons inspectors were doing their job.
"Iraq should take a more proactive action and send military officers to every ammunition depot and open up every box to ensure this never again happens and give a full accounting," Ritter said on CNN last Friday.
However, Ritter has said that if the inspectors find evidence that Iraq is attempting to procure or manufacture or has manufactured and is hiding an active chemical agent, "Then we have a right to presume ill intent on the part of Saddam Hussein and hold them to account."
Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter refused to comment on reports that he had been arrested in an Internet sex sting.
"Sorry, you must have the wrong person," Ritter told the Schenectady (N.Y.) Daily Gazette, which broke the story.
Ritter was in San Diego promoting his book, "Endgame: Solving the Iraq Crisis," but his wife told WNYT-TV that they had no comment.
The Daily Gazette reported that Albany County District Attorney Paul Clyne fired a veteran assistant district attorney last week for failing to inform him of a "sensitive" case.
Clyne refused to comment on the Ritter case but he told the Albany Times Union, "Based on an inquiry, I determined that I should have been apprised of the existence of the case, and I was not, so Cindy Preiser was fired for failure to keep me abreast of what was going on in Colonie court."
The arrest occurred in June 2001 in the Albany suburb of Colonie after Ritter allegedly arranged to meet with whom he thought was 16-year-old girl he had met on an Internet chat room, who was in reality an undercover police officer.
Ritter was arrested for attempted child endangerment, a class B misdemeanor, but Ritter's attorney and a Colonie Court judge agreed "to adjourn the matter in contemplation of a dismissal," according to the Schenectady Gazette.
Generally, if there are no more allegations against the defendant for the next 6 months, the case is dismissed and the record sealed. According to WTEN-TV, Ritter underwent court-ordered sex offender counseling from an Albany psychologist.
Although the court record is sealed, WNYT-TV reported that in 2001 the television station had made a report that a 39-year-old William Ritter of Delmar had been arrested on charges he attempted to lure an underage girl he met on the Internet to a fast-food restaurant.
Ritter, a 41-year-old native of Gainesville, Fla., whose full name is William Scott Ritter Jr., has lived in the Albany suburb of Delmar with his wife and their twin daughters for two years. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Gulf War. After the war, he left the Marines and became a U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998.
The Colonie arrest was under the name William Ritter. Norah Murphy, Ritter's attorney, confirmed her client was arrested in June 2001, but refused further comment.
According to a report in the Albany Times Union, the June 2001 arrest was not William Ritter's first brush with the law. In April 2001, William Ritter attempted to meet whom he thought was 14-year-old girl he met online but was an undercover police officer posing as an underage minor. He was met at the meeting place by police officers but released without being charged.
During the administration of Bill Clinton, Ritter was an outspoken critic because "Iraq was winning its bid to retain its prohibited weapons."
A CNN report in 1998 said that Iraqi officials blocked Ritter's team from conducting searches of possible Iraqi weapons sites claiming Ritter was a spy for the U.S. CIA, a charge the United Nations and the United States denied.
At that time, the U.N. Security Council approved a statement "deploring" the Iraqi move to block Ritter's team and then President Clinton said Iraqi officials would not be allowed to decide the makeup of inspection teams.
Ritter resigned from the United Nations in 1998 because he felt "Iraq remained insufficiently disarmed and ready to restart its nuclear and biological weapons programs."
The 6-foot, 4-inch former Marine, changed his view on Iraq and became a regular on network and cable news programs criticizing President George W. Bush and calling for his impeachment for putting members of the American military in a war he considers "illegal and based on a foundation of lies." He says that Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons program either accounted for or destroyed.
Ritter explained his reasons for his change of heart in the documentary "In Shifting Sands," that he wrote and directed. A wealthy Iraqi-American businessman, Shakir al Khafaji, has reportedly funded $400,000 toward the 91-minute account of the U.N. weapons inspection team in Iraq, known as UNSCOM.
The former inspector also spoke before the Iraq National Assembly last September urging Iraq to allow weapons inspectors to return.
Ritter called the U.N. weapons inspector's recent discovery of empty warheads in Iraq as "an accounting problem," and an indication that the weapons inspectors were doing their job.
"Iraq should take a more proactive action and send military officers to every ammunition depot and open up every box to ensure this never again happens and give a full accounting," Ritter said on CNN last Friday.
However, Ritter has said that if the inspectors find evidence that Iraq is attempting to procure or manufacture or has manufactured and is hiding an active chemical agent, "Then we have a right to presume ill intent on the part of Saddam Hussein and hold them to account."
I wonder how long the intellectually (and morally) bankrupt editors of this group will wait to delete the previous posting. Hey, if your not posting about the evil of Jews/Zionism, preaching anti-Americanism or defending totalitarians-- your not welcomed here...This forum is for those who want to be blind to the facts that disprove the motives and ideology of the far-left-- and sympathizers of Arab totalitarians. How pathetic! No wonder the left is a joke in the free world. It is not only impotent-- it is sickened by its own identity... to the point where it ignores those who exploit children.
<Hey mike, Cry me a river!! !!>
Sure. Here you go.
http://www.bigskyfishing.com/River-Fishing/NW-MT-Rivers/Flathead-NoFork/photo_gallery/NorthForkFlatheadRiverPhot/northfork2_JPG.html
Anyway, I bet Ritter was framed, probably by Clinton or the CIA after he blew the whistle in 98-99 on the U.S.'s using the inspections as a cover for spying. Then Bush found out about it, and waited to use the smear until the opportune moment, which has arrived, a week before the inspections report.
Smear on, right wing losers! We're going to stop this war, and THEN we're going to get serious!
Sure. Here you go.
http://www.bigskyfishing.com/River-Fishing/NW-MT-Rivers/Flathead-NoFork/photo_gallery/NorthForkFlatheadRiverPhot/northfork2_JPG.html
Anyway, I bet Ritter was framed, probably by Clinton or the CIA after he blew the whistle in 98-99 on the U.S.'s using the inspections as a cover for spying. Then Bush found out about it, and waited to use the smear until the opportune moment, which has arrived, a week before the inspections report.
Smear on, right wing losers! We're going to stop this war, and THEN we're going to get serious!
>Anyway, I bet...<
You lose!
>and THEN we're going to get serious!<
We're all shaking in our shoes.
When you're driving the garbage truck in my neighbor, try and slow down around the corners. You never know when kids out playing in the yards will dart out in the road to retreive a ball or something. It's amazing I got to remind you of this. Think!!
You lose!
>and THEN we're going to get serious!<
We're all shaking in our shoes.
When you're driving the garbage truck in my neighbor, try and slow down around the corners. You never know when kids out playing in the yards will dart out in the road to retreive a ball or something. It's amazing I got to remind you of this. Think!!
How pathetic...Yes, the local police and DA framed him...Yep, your a sychophant...have no intellectual integrity...only have an identity that is rejected daily by the American people. Again...pathetic. Oh yeah, your going to stop a war against Saddam...how? By convincing the Congress (controlled by the right), the Senate (controlled by the right) or the President? The only thing the left has stopped since 911 is the ability of Democrats to get elected. Your an intellectual and moral weakling, Mike, and those who think like you are doomed to irrelevance.
never in U.S. history has an anti-war movement achieved such critical mass before the slaughter starts. So start shakin,' baby. We're winning, our victory reflected in the slowly ascending poll numbers for anti-war sentiment, the French U.N. coup, the 80% anti-unilateral war sentiment in Britain, and so on. The U.S. media is still militaristic but I predict a turning of the tide even there, and quite soon.
As for the garbage truck, yes, I drive one in your neighborhood, and quite proudly, but the only problem is that it's so chuck full of all that right wing propaganda no one reads that it's weighing down the vehicle. Right into the dustbin of history it goes, followed by you!
backing up! beep! beep! beep!
As for the garbage truck, yes, I drive one in your neighborhood, and quite proudly, but the only problem is that it's so chuck full of all that right wing propaganda no one reads that it's weighing down the vehicle. Right into the dustbin of history it goes, followed by you!
backing up! beep! beep! beep!
>We're winning, our victory reflected in the slowly ascending poll numbers for anti-war sentiment, the French U.N. coup, the 80% anti-unilateral war sentiment in Britain, and so on.<
Cute.
Anti-war crowd (quite disappointing numbers on J18)
the French (HA!)
the anti-war British (you mean the one's sending 26,000 troops to the region, those British?)
Definately people I would put my trust in. Some victory.
And after the war starts, cause you know Saddam isn't going to disarm like he's been told, would that mean that you failed? Could we go ahead and get the spin now? since we can all be confident that it's been written.
Cute.
Anti-war crowd (quite disappointing numbers on J18)
the French (HA!)
the anti-war British (you mean the one's sending 26,000 troops to the region, those British?)
Definately people I would put my trust in. Some victory.
And after the war starts, cause you know Saddam isn't going to disarm like he's been told, would that mean that you failed? Could we go ahead and get the spin now? since we can all be confident that it's been written.
Ritter talks about the sex thing on internet TV at
http://www.wrgb.com/news/special/ritter.html (1/25/03)
(I only got the audio -- dunno if there's a video component).
If the war starts, it'll be a loss for those on the right
who don't believe in American Empire (Buchanan
et al), and a temporary win for the hegemonist
super-hawks ala Kagan-Kristol, who are pushing
Bush very hard to make it happen.
Some people I'm not sure how to categorize on the
left-right spectrum. Le Carre (the spy novelist)? Anyway,
he's sure that America's gone mad. I guess that makes
him a communist right? I lose track.
Speaking of weapons inspectors, Richard Butler (the guy
after Scott) has also come out against attacking Iraq.
Another leftist loser I suppose.
http://www.wrgb.com/news/special/ritter.html (1/25/03)
(I only got the audio -- dunno if there's a video component).
If the war starts, it'll be a loss for those on the right
who don't believe in American Empire (Buchanan
et al), and a temporary win for the hegemonist
super-hawks ala Kagan-Kristol, who are pushing
Bush very hard to make it happen.
Some people I'm not sure how to categorize on the
left-right spectrum. Le Carre (the spy novelist)? Anyway,
he's sure that America's gone mad. I guess that makes
him a communist right? I lose track.
Speaking of weapons inspectors, Richard Butler (the guy
after Scott) has also come out against attacking Iraq.
Another leftist loser I suppose.
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