Reminder that Scott Ritter was pro-Iraq invervention before 9/11 - /pol/ (#507962667) [Archived: 994 hours ago]

Anonymous ID: 9/5mTKblUnited States
6/19/2025, 11:21:45 AM No.507962667
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After resigning in protest of the inspection process because Iraq denied him access to certain sites (perhaps because their were underage girls there?), he testified before the Senate in 1998 to the effect that Iraq "had not been disarmed."
Senator Biden, teasing out the implications, remarkably pushed back against military intervention, and the notion that Ritter being denied access to certain sites meant that the UN/US should immediately use, or threaten to use, force to "compel access."
https://www.c-span.org/clip/senate-committee/user-clip-1998-biden-chastises-un-weapons-inspector-ritter/4842887
Later that year, the US launched Operation Desert Fox.
Ritter then did a complete 180 and claimed Iraq HAD been disarmed.
Somehow Ritter rewrote the record to the point that his 1998 congressional testimony, partially responsible for the December strike on Iraq, is effectively memory-holed or misremembered as him warning AGAINST internvention.
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Anonymous ID: CglzVTY6Australia
6/19/2025, 11:23:54 AM No.507962778
>>507962667 (OP)
Why the ancient history lesson grandpa?
Anonymous ID: SOuQuoguUnited Kingdom
6/19/2025, 11:25:29 AM No.507962866
>>507962667 (OP)
Shalom.
Anonymous ID: JloS11pjAustralia
6/19/2025, 11:26:48 AM No.507962928
>>507962667 (OP)
Pedo
Anonymous ID: sKc756J4Malaysia
6/19/2025, 11:27:01 AM No.507962946
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I really dont know what to make of ritter. He seems like a genuine guy, but i still remember him being a trump worshipper early on.
As for iraq, i think recently he reiterated he always said iraq had no wmds. What do YOU make of Ritter, OP? I only really know him from the Judge Napolitano show.
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Anonymous ID: 7H07YtqbRomania
6/19/2025, 11:27:12 AM No.507962955
fuck this anti white chomo
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Anonymous ID: uPrU2X+kMontenegro
6/19/2025, 11:29:08 AM No.507963070
>>507962955
I always wondered if this jailbait stuff was real, or if they tried to smear him.
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Anonymous ID: 9/5mTKblUnited States
6/19/2025, 11:29:44 AM No.507963098
Screenshot 2025-06-19 at 05-23-25 Glenn Greenwald on X Prior to the invasion of Iraq weapons inspector Scott Ritter correctly warned Saddam had no active WMD program. Joe Biden as Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair falsely insisted he did a[...]
>>507962667 (OP)
>https://www.c-span.org/clip/senate-committee/user-clip-1998-biden-chastises-un-weapons-inspector-ritter/4842887
Incredibly, people have actually taken excerpts of the full exchange from 1998 between the two, where Biden comes across as arrogant and dismissive towards Ritter and his concerns, and presented it as if Biden's arrogance and dismissive attitude is towards Ritter's concerns about a rush to intervene in Iraq, when it's the opposite, with Biden expressing arguing that Ritter being denied access shouldn't prompt immediate intervention.
Also people try to pass off the exchange as taking place in 2002, after 9/11 but before Iraq 2.0, when it actually took place in 1998.
Glenn Greenwald fell for the deception and retweeted it.
Anonymous ID: OClxe5T5Colombia
6/19/2025, 11:35:08 AM No.507963413
>>507962667 (OP)
How has this guy been doing over the past year? I think I caught a bit of him on Rumble, idk.
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Anonymous ID: 9/5mTKblUnited States
6/19/2025, 11:35:22 AM No.507963425
>>507962946
>As for iraq, i think recently he reiterated he always said iraq had no wmds
We know *now* that he had no WMDs, at least after 9/11, but the point of this thread is Ritter testified before the US Senate in 1998 that, Iraq quote
>has not been disarmed
Go to 40 minutes in:
https://www.c-span.org/program/senate-committee/united-nations-weapons-inspections-in-iraq/84335
Then he retconned it so he's always been against intervening in Iraq.
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Anonymous ID: 9/5mTKblUnited States
6/19/2025, 11:36:38 AM No.507963500
>>507963425
>We know *now* that he had no WMDs
Saddam did obviously have WMDs before the Gulf War, e.g., the chemical weapons used against Iran and the Kurds, and the stockpiles that caused Gulf War Syndrome.
Anonymous ID: kirUBFdqUnited States
6/19/2025, 11:36:45 AM No.507963506
>>507963070
Every time it was feds pretending to be underage people. It was never real underage kids. They did once get him to go to a meet up but again it was a fed
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Anonymous ID: D1Rlw950Canada
6/19/2025, 11:37:22 AM No.507963543
>>507962667 (OP)
One minute he's pro Trump, the next he's calling Trump a moron.
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Anonymous ID: IV1R/XBa
6/19/2025, 11:37:27 AM No.507963549
Isn’t he a pedophile?
Anonymous ID: bSKV9pu/United States
6/19/2025, 11:39:02 AM No.507963653
Jew ears Alex Nowrasteh
Jew ears Alex Nowrasteh
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identifying a jew. OP image related
Anonymous ID: 9/5mTKblUnited States
6/19/2025, 11:44:28 AM No.507963965
>>507963070
>I always wondered if this jailbait stuff was real, or if they tried to smear him.
He got caught THREE TIMES by LEOs in NY and Pennsylvania running Chris Hanson-type stings (sadly not televised), and got convicted twice.
Do you seriously believe the local police in some town in upstate NY or rural PA are in cahoots with the CIA or something?
Amusingly, the detective in one case posed as "Emily" (the favorite decoy name Predator Poacher):
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-13089135
>Ritter, an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, had a sexually graphic online chat in 2009 with an undercover police officer posing as a 15-year-old girl named Emily
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Anonymous ID: 9/5mTKblUnited States
6/19/2025, 11:46:11 AM No.507964080
>>507963506
>Every time it was feds pretending
It was literally local LEOs
Anonymous ID: 9/5mTKblUnited States
6/19/2025, 11:50:52 AM No.507964350
>>507963965
>convicted twice
Actually the first case was sealed and dismissed after he agreed to go to some treatment program.
Anonymous ID: 9/5mTKblUnited States
6/19/2025, 12:19:57 PM No.507965937
>>507962946
>What do YOU make of Ritter
>>507963413
>>507963543
My take on him is that he's just a naked self-promoter.
He made a name for himself initially by attacking the inspection process as a farce and claiming Iraq was non-compliant.
Then after Desert Fox in 1998, and the potential for future intervention:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Liberation_Act
seeing that his outbursts were being taken seriously, he did a complete 180.
Maybe he genuinely had issues with the inspection process but felt they didn't warrant intervention. Maybe he never though his pursuit of fame result in another round of bombing (or worse), and started to feel guilty after Desert Fox.
Maybe he just saw more to be gained by taking the contrarian side as enthusiasm for attacking Iraq grew.
But his
>I was always against the Iraq war and Saddam had no WMDs
line, at least if stretched back to 1998, is categorically false.
Anonymous ID: 23imO60x
6/19/2025, 12:26:25 PM No.507966262
>>507962667 (OP)
Serious question, is he a actually a pedophile or is he a "pedophile" (someone who likes sliding his dick into a horny 15 year old girl's poopy butthole like every single normal male)?
Anonymous ID: 8d8yo3ICGermany
6/19/2025, 12:28:12 PM No.507966375
>>507962946
isn't he a convicted pedophile quite literally
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Anonymous ID: 9/5mTKblUnited States
6/19/2025, 12:43:20 PM No.507967243
>>507966375
He got off initially with a dismissal if he agreed to go to rehab (NY), but the second time (PA) he was convicted.
He's (just checked now) not in the NY sex offender registry. (He lived in Albany as recently as last year.)
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Anonymous ID: 8d8yo3ICGermany
6/19/2025, 12:46:05 PM No.507967428
>>507967243
yeah sounds like the guy got something going on tho. wasn't he in kosovo too? I remember in the army they joked kfor means kinderfucker operative reserve which translates to kid fuckers I guess. dyncorps and such as well