Former Hero To Some, Scott Ritter, Now Shilling For Russia

[Effete Snob]

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Scott Ritter
@RealScottRitter
An unpopular take: when the dust settles, Russia will be found to have conducted a military campaign where assiduous compliance with the law of war was the norm. Ukraine, on the other hand, will be the subject of numerous war crimes investigations.

Scott Ritter was pretty popular among some for a while.

On edit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter

William Scott Ritter Jr. (born July 15, 1961) is a former Marine Corps intelligence officer who served with the United Nations implementing arms control treaties, with General Norman Schwarzkopf in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm, and in Iraq, overseeing the disarmament of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), as a United Nations weapons inspector, from 1991 to 1998. He later became a critic of United States foreign policy in the Middle East.

[blm]

1. Bet your house, Scott.

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. The guy who got busted for exposing himself via webcam to what he thought was a 15 year old?

Yeah, I don't think anyone cares what he has to say.

[LizBeth]

3. Bummer you did not clue us in with commentary on who the man is. Ya ya, google

[Effete Snob]

5. Updated with wikipedia link

[LizBeth]

8. Perfect, thanks, though I checked it out. Long time ago, and lots to remember since.

Old brain cannot retain all

[LizBeth]

6. former Marine Corps intelligence officer served with the United Nations implementing arms control

William Scott Ritter Jr. is a former Marine Corps intelligence officer who served with the United Nations implementing arms control treaties, with General Norman Schwarzkopf in the Persian Gulf

[Effete Snob]

9. .

Used to be a well-known personality here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22scott+ritter%22+site%3Ademocraticunderground.com

[Ray Bruns]

4. Who the hell is Scott Ritter?

[Effete Snob]

7. OP updated with wikipedia link

Or, try:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22scott+ritter%22+site%3Ademocraticunderground.com

[Ocelot II]

10. I remembered the name but couldn't think who he was til I looked him up.

Now I remember that he was very critical of the Iraq war and also that he'd been busted for soliciting sex from minors, and there was a big to-do about that. He ended up doing time for it. I also discovered that since 2019 he's been writing a weekly column for RT. So...

[LizBeth]

13. busted for soliciting sex from minors... Right. How it comes back

[Ray Bruns]

14. A Putin stooge. Got it.

[JohnSJ]

11. Being right on the lie Iraq had WMDs, doesn't make him right on anything else

[Hortensis]

23. That's for sure. Many retired experts said there were no WMD,

including General Schwartzkop. I listened to dozens of them speak out over the year between announcing invasion and invading.

[uponit7771]

25. +1,

[malaise]

24. Correct

and he did get that right

[Tetrachloride]

12. Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter

[Eyeball_Kid]

15. Brilliant, Scott!

Russia is committing war crimes every hour, and you think that they're above reproach.

You're a knucklehead. You're not insightful. You're not referencing some deep, dark cache of previously unknown data. You're just bullshitting with no points of reference to justify your claim.

Intelligence agents would gladly explain that 90-95% of all intelligence gathered by the appropriate agencies are open sourced. And what's open-sourced, right now, is that Russia invaded an independent country and is bombing it to rubble and mass murdering civilians. We SEE that every day on our news. We SEE the videotape and the live broadcasts. We hear from on-site news reporters.

Ritter's a loser. That's all there is to this.

[Tommy Carcetti]

16. High proof that being right about something once doesn't mean shit in the long run. nt

[rso]

17. Ritter

For Comrade Ritter’s sake, we hope he’s not being paid in worthless rubles.

[harumph]

18. Loser looking for a check from Russia. Not kidding.

[rso]

19. Ritter

For Comrade Ritter’s sake, we hope he’s not being paid in worthless rubles. Also, he’s a convicted pedophile, and people have been posting the specifics of his criminal conviction. I think he now wishes that he had never tweeted.

[Pantagruel]

21. Not defending Ritter

Always suspected he was self-aggrandizing and more than a little bit "nuts".
BUT
He highlights a point that is making me uncomfortable.The meme of the Ukes being valiant white knights who can do no wrong has flaws.This is war, it's always messy and always brings out the worst in some factions of any society. Let's be careful who we put on a pedestal until we know the whole story .

[Hortensis]

26. The "WHOLE" story might show Ukraine has committed multiple war crimes

and that Russia conducted a "military campaign" with "assiduous compliance with the law of war?

This kind of "concern," from Ritter or anyone else, doesn't make me feel uncomfortable, it makes me wonder if he's doing this willingly or is coerced, or both.

NO to Ritter's deceits and NO to false equalization of Ukraine fighting for its national existence with Russia's murderous invasion.

[JohnSJ]

27. Excuse me. Who invaded who again?

[Pantagruel]

31. Logic dictated the Ukes would behave

less nobly than we had hoped.

[dalton99a]

32. How many Russian cities did the Ukrainians destroy? How many Russian civilians did they kill?

How many Russian refugees left their homes in Russia because of the Ukrainians?

[Vogon_Glory]

22. He must need the money

His analysis of the so-called (and non-existent) Iraqi WMD stockpile proved to be right on the money, and a sensible Presidential administration would have left the hot mess alone.

Sad that he’s being an apologist for Putin and Co.

[Crunchy Frog]

28. War crimes investigations to be carried out by Russia of course.

I've found that there are a whole lot of people who I admired during the Iraq War whose views are so far out there now that they are now essentially dead to me.

[UTUSN]

30. Wtf on his now, added to his past wtf!

[Tarc]

34. The opinion of a child rapist, who once happened to be right about Iraq and WMDs

Is not terribly important.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

35. This makes me smile

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