Scott Ritter: The truth of UK's guilt over Iraq

Saddam had been found guilty of possessing WMD, and his sentence had been passed down by Washington and London void of any hard evidence that such weapons, or even related programmes, even existed. The sentence meted out – regime termination – mandated such a massive deployment of troops and material that all but the wilfully blind or intentionally ignorant had to know by the early autumn of 2002 that war with Iraq was inevitable. One simply does not initiate the movement of hundreds of thousands of troops, thousands of armoured vehicles and aircraft, and dozens of ships on a whim or to reinforce an idle threat.
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  1. #1    "Saddam had been found guilty of possessing WMD, and his sentence had been passed down by Washington and London void of any hard evidence"
    No Scott, Saddam had been found guilty of being in the way.
    "Bush was able to disguise his blatant militarism behind the false sincerity of his ally Blair and his own secretary of state, Colin Powell. The president's task was made far easier given the role of useful idiot played by much of the mainstream media in the US and Britain,"
    Right on.
    One way or another, all of the past 8 years will surface. I hope the Brits have Ritter testify, he is a primary source of factual information. Eventually, he'll testify here too.
    written by CwV since 74 days 4 hours 35 minutesCwV
  2. #2    You are being too literal. Having been chief United Nations weapons inspector on the ground in Iraq I think when he says "Saddam had been found guilty of possessing WMD" he is merely implying that, that, was the phony excuse du jour. You know, like the Gulf of Tonkin or the USS Maine.
    written by bloozguy since 74 days 1 time 11 minutesbloozguy
  3. #3    1& 2. I can see by your remarks that your education was a worthy one. You were taught by teachers to question and to seek answers, not swallow totally everything you were told, sometimes by those very same teachers. Those are the very same types of educators that Hitler abolished and Bush Jr. would have and has to a certain degree rendered ineffective by establishing standarized tests. Bush approves of ROTE learning and would abolish free wheeling, open discussion that should occur in a classroom. Incidental learning would have no role in a classroom.
    written by deke4 since 73 days 11 hours 24 minutesdeke4
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