Update on Scott Ritter

In the run-up to the Iraq invasion, former U.N. arms inspector Scott Ritter was an intriguing character. I even took him semi-seriously, though his sudden change of tone (from Saddam a threat to Saddam no threat) in 2002 was inexplicable.

Of course, being a liberal, I was focused on liberating 25 million Iraqis from totalitarianism. Ritter, being a something else, was focused on weapons of mass destruction.

Saddam’s WMDs always were secondary to any real liberal. Saddam’s repression was the obvious problem. Under his fascist repression, Saddam had killed many hundreds of thousands more people with conventional weapons than with WMDs. All these facts ultimately made Ritter look like a sell-out in his defense of Saddam.

But for more perspective, here’s an update on Ritter.

Frank Warner