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Scott Ritter

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William Scott Ritter, Jr. is a retired U.S. Marine and the former head of UNSCOM - the chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq. He resigned from that post on August 27, 1998. According to Richard Butler he gave two reasons for resignation in his resignation letter (The Greatest Threat, Pp. 178-183) The first reason is that UNSCOM's task had been impossible and that an illusory disarmament was worse than no disarmament. The Security Council's failure to enforce the mandate has made it difficult for the weapons inspectors to do their job. The second reason is that Richard Butler had been controlled or taken orders from the U.S. government, that UNSCOM had been used as a conduit for the collection of intelligence. Butler denied that the possible spying under the cover of UNSCOM was with his approval.

Before joining UNSCOM in 1991, Ritter served in the Persian Gulf War.

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Prediction

On February 6, 2006, Ritter predicted that the U.S. would attack Iran, claiming that UN Ambassador John Bolton's speechwriter had already written a speech claiming the right to unilateral action. See Iranian Nuclear Crisis Timeline.

Republican Smear Campaign

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This page was last modified 22:57, 5 September 2006 by dKosopedia user B Merryfield. Based on work by CD and dKosopedia user(s) Allamakee Democrat, BartFraden, Corncam and Quests. Content is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.


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