Scott Ritter Quotes

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• I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.

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  Country, Mean, Marine

  Interview with David Asman, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2002.

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• I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

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  Patriotic, Patriotism, Doe

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• I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

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  Believe, Needs, Shut Up

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• Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.

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  Technology, Mass Destruction, White

  "Fox News Interviews Scott Ritter". Interview with David Asman, www.foxnews.com. September 13, 2002.

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• War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

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  War, Games, Nintendo

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• If people don't like the history, I'm sorry.

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  Sorry, People, Ifs

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• While we were never able to provide 100 percent certainty regarding the disposition of Iraq's proscribed weaponry, we did ascertain a 90-95 percent level of verified disarmament. This figure takes into account the destruction or dismantling of every major factory associated with prohibited weapons manufacture, all significant items of production equipment, and the majority of the weapons and agent produced by Iraq.

  Scott Ritter

  Iraq, Agents, Levels

  "Is Iraq a True Threat to the US?". Boston Globe, July 2002.

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• That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.

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  War, Iraq, Halt

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• When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.

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  Government, Issues, Going Out

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• One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.

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  Integrity, Passion, Counter Attack

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• I don't disagree with anything I've ever said. Why in God's name would I disagree with something I've said?

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  Names, Said, Disagree

  Interview with David Asman, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2002.

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• We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause.

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  Peace, War, Fighting

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• My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

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  Iraq, America, Goal

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• I think the danger right now is that without effective inspections, without effective monitoring, Iraq can in a very short period of time measured in months, reconstitute chemical and biological weapons, long-range ballistic missiles to deliver these weapons, and even certain aspects of their nuclear weaponization program.

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  Thinking, Iraq, Long

  "Even if Iraq managed to hide these weapons, what they are now hiding is harmless goo". Interview with William Rivers Pitt, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2002.

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• I made a movie to explain to the American public what had been achieved in regards to disarmament of Iraq and why inspectors aren't in Iraq today and detailing the very complex, murky history of interaction between Iraq, the United Nations and the United States. It is most definitely not a pro-Iraq movie. It is a pro-truth movie.

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  Iraq, United States, Today

  "Scott Ritter: Case against Iraq is speculation". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2002.

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• I can generate attention quickly.

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  Attention, I Can

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• Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.

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  Mass Destruction, People, Needs

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• If you call yourself an American that means that you have embraced the constitution, because that is what an American is. A citizen of the United States of America is someone who has sworn an oath of allegiance to that document, to the words, to the ideals of that document. Right now we have citizens who don't even understand what that document is.

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  Mean, America, United States

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• If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.

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  Games, Play, Want

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• The UN stopped using Chalabi's information as a basis for conducting inspections once the tenuous nature of his sources and his dubious motivations became clear. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the mainstream US media, which give prominent coverage to sources of information that, had they not been related to Hussein's Iraq, would normally be immediately dismissed.

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  Motivation, Media, Iraq

  The Christian Science Monitor, January 28, 2002.

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• Our guys working this area for a living all believe Chalabi and all those guys in their Bond Street suits are charlatans. To take them for a source of anything except a fantasy trip would be a real stretch. But it's an article of faith among those with no military experience that the Iraqi military is low-hanging fruit.

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  Military, Real, Believe

  Knight Ridder, November 1, 2002.

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• [Operation] Rockingham was spinning reports and emphasizing reports that showed non-compliance (by Iraq with UN inspections) and quashing those which showed compliance. It was cherry-picking intelligence.

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  Iraq, Spinning, Cherries

  Sunday Herald, June 8, 2003.

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• I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk'.

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  True Friend, People, Drunk

  Speech at New York Ethical Culture Society, 2006.

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• I really am tired of all the Clinton Democrats running around getting all-sanctimonious over Iraq. It was them who killed 1.5 to 2.2 million Iraqis through sanctions. Sanctions that Madeline Albright, their illustrious Secretary of State, when confronted with the fact of 500,000 dead Iraqi children, said it was a price she was willing to pay.

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  Running, Children, Tired

  "Scott Ritter Says Controversial Things About Clinton, Bush, Fox News, the Surge, etc." by Chris Davis, www.memphisflyer.com. May 03, 2008.

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• It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.

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  Military, Iraq, Support

  "A Critic's Defeatist Rhetoric" by David Asman, www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2005.

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