Monday, March 06, 2006

"Dynamite Scott Ritter at Barnes & Noble"

"Ritter asserts the Weapons Inspectors had a track record of impressive accuracy, and resents that they were portrayed as bumblers who couldn't do their job, so that politicians or CIA plants could deliberately distort or suppress facts and manipulate public opinion. He talked about the political purposes of the invasion that had nothing to do with WMD.

He's infuriated by suggestions that staying the course is a way to honor the sacrifice of casualties. As if it will demoralize the troops to be told they're going home, instead of staying in that hellhole until "victory", or indefinitely, since the mission has never been defined.

People ask how to withdraw from Iraq, he said. Send the troops home!--that's how. U.S. presence is the problem, not the solution. There is no way to "fix" the mess. We will see horrible things unfold after we leave and it's our fault, we must face it.

I asked: "What's your opinion of a Democratic senator who thinks regime change is a good idea, who says she has no regrets for her pro-IWR vote, who pretends we're spreading democracy, who for the most part refuses to address the subject, who's up for re-election this year?"-from Dina Lydia Johnson's post on Washblog, where you'll have to go to get Ritter's answer to her question.

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