Top 41 Scott Ritter Quotes
#1. The United States is the laughingstock of the world.
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#2. That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.
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#3. I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.
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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. There has been no case made - based on anything other than speculation - that Iraq poses a threat.
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#9. I'll put my record of service up against anyone, bar none.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. It is a pro-U.N. movie. It's a pro-American movie. It's a pro-American movie. It's a movie people should be watching and not denigrating.
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#13. I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.
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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.
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#19. 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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#20. War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.
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#21. 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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#22. There are people in Baghdad pursuing the initiative that I started, and I want to give them every chance of success. I don't want to provide any distractions.
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#23. 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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#24. We have become a nation not of citizens but of consumers.
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#25. 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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#26. If people don't like the history, I'm sorry.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head.
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#30. I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.
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#31. [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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. I have a credibility on the subject that most people don't.
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#35. My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that.
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#36. I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.
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#37. Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.
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#38. 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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#39. If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.
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#41. We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.
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