Scott Ritter Quotes
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If people don't like the history, I'm sorry.
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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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I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.
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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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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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Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.
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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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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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War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.
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I can generate attention quickly.
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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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There has been no case made - based on anything other than speculation - that Iraq poses a threat.
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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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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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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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The United States is the laughingstock of the world.
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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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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.