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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.

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  Military, War, Tools

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Iraq, Agents, Levels

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

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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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• History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.

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  Government, Effort, Occupation

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

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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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• Iraq has not been disarmed 100 percent [but] in terms of what they [Iraqis] have accomplished there are no meaningful weapons or weapons production capability in Iraq today.

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  Meaningful, Iraq, Politics

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• I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling her a KGB spy.

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  Iraq, Israel, Kgb

  "Exclusive: Scott Ritter in His Own Words". Interview with Massimo Calabresi, content.time.com. September 14, 2002.

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• I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.

  Scott Ritter

  War, Weapons, Inspectors

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

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• There has been no case made - based on anything other than speculation - that Iraq poses a threat.

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  Iraq, Politics, Made

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• It has been estimated that 80 percent of the oil illegally smuggled out of Iraq under oil for food ended up in the United States.

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  Oil, Iraq, United States

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• The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense.

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  People, Hospitality, Stranger

  "Ex-weapons inspector berates war plans". Interview with David Wallis, www.sfgate.com. September 14, 2002.

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• We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.

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  War, Fighting, Care

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• The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head.

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  Agents, Way, Ifs

  "Ex-weapons inspector berates war plans". Interview with David Wallis, www.sfgate.com. September 14, 2002.

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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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• The United States is the laughingstock of the world.

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  United States, World, States

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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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