Quotes from Scott Ritter


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I'll put my record of service up against anyone, bar none.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


I made a movie to explain to the American public what had been achieved in regards to disarmament of Iraq and why inspectors aren't in Iraq today and detailing the very complex, murky history of interaction between Iraq, the United Nations and the United States. It is most definitely not a pro-Iraq movie. It is a pro-truth movie.


We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.


War is about dead people.


The United States is the laughingstock of the world.


The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head.


Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.


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.


Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.


If people don't like the history, I'm sorry.


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.


I don't disagree with anything I've ever said. Why in God's name would I disagree with something I've said?


I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.


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.