Wednesday, March 09, 2005

What You Might Not Know About Scott Ritter

If you think George Soros can't cope with being proven completely wrong about George W. Bush's liberation of Iraq and overall conduct of the GWOT, compare his trevails to those of Scott Ritter, the former WMD-hunter.

While Soros has been peddling the nonsense that resisting terrorists is futile, Ritter is taking more direct aim, besmirching Iraq's burgeoning democracy itself:

Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter said Tuesday that January's historic election in Iraq, which set off a wave of democratic reform throughout the Middle East, was fixed.

Claiming he was vindicated when the U.S. failed to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Ritter insisted that the election results were changed using a "secret recount" held three days after the vote.

Wait for it, wait for it....

"It's as obvious as anything," the former weapons expert told WWRL Radio's Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter.

Ah, yes, the "obvious secret recount." Kind of like "jumbo shrimp," or "liberal intelligence," or "independent journalism."

Follow the link and wade through the rest of Ritter's conspiracism if you wish, but the only other sentence that matters is the final one:

Scott Ritter is now a columnist for Al Jazeera.

Well, of course he is. And as this exercise in rank paranoia amply illustrates, he looks like he's found a comfortable home.