UN weapons inspector Scott Ridder...

I was on a different forum that got freeped, butone of the pictures the freeper posted had a picture of Scott Ridder saying that he was on trial for sexually assaulting a teenage girl. Is this true or just freeper BS?

bullshit.

He addresses it in his book while not openly declaring what the charges were. The charges were dropped and the records sealed.

i think it was something involving solicitation of a minor. He was charged, charges were dropped, the record was sealed and the MYSTERIOUSLY the information about the sealed record was made public during the pre-invasion time period when Scott was a major voice of reason on the subject.

Scott seems to have dropped out of view since then.

Called Frontier Justice. He addresses the issue mentioned above though doesnt go into detail. Very good book. I recommend it.

he was interviewed on the Guy James radio show yesterday. the show should be in the archives soon. www.theguyjamesshow.com

OReilly gave Franken?

clarifying the freeper smear.

He met a minor online and arranged to meet her at a Burger King and then go have sex. It wasn't an 8 year-old, but it was a minor and therefore pretty terrible.

He was setup by Ashcroft and there was nothing to it. If there was he would have been nailed.

The story was all over DU......someone probably has the archive.

your bullshit to yourself. The charges were dismissed and the case sealed. I guess we convict people before any hearing or trial now on this forum. You people need to get a grip.

you keep your fondness for this particular pedophile to yourself.

Dude, read the link. He didn't get convicted, but it's pretty obvious the man was trying to do something pretty wrong. Just because he's an outspoken * critic doesn't mean he can't also be a pretty terrible person.

read the whole story. it wasn't a 16-year-old girl, nor a 14-year-old girl, either. it was cops pretending to be a 16- or 14-year-old girl. Ritter's behavior strikes me as suspicious, but legally he's not guilty. arrests are not convictions. this WAS clearly a setup. the cops were trying to lure someone into committing a crime. as such, they undoubtedly were setup with cameras and recorders to gather all the possible evidence. yet, they still couldn't make a prosecutable case. otherwise Ritter would be in jail.

get real folks. Ritter didn't try to molest an 8/14/16-year old girl. what really happened was that the cops set a trap which didn't quite succeed.

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or the "Justice" dept trying to smear him to shut him up?

Wake up Buddy, er..Dude!

Look at all the people with low post counts. Amazing!

But it's funny how his apologists say the charges are made up. Here's my source: http://stacks.msnbc.com/local/wnyt/m264375.asp?cp1=1

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/22/ritter.arrest


But DUers will just say he was set up by PNAC.

Do we need Scott Ritter to prove that there are no WMD's? I don't think so. Why is this being raised now? Is the administration getting desperate? There have been no WMD's found...period. So what's the point of raising Ritter now?

They'll discredit him, maybe rightly so maybe not, but the point is the guy was right about WMD in Iraq. It has now been five months since our military entered combat in Iraq. We have found some rusted parts that were buried undcerneath a rose bush twelve years ago and a couple of trucks that turned out to be servicing vehicles for weather balloons. Oh yeah, the British sold those vehicles to the Iraqis.

Nothing here, move along.

I just want to mention... there was a story on NPR this morning about an scientist in Iraq who had been forced to work for the government...his wife took their kids to Germany for years... he turned himself into the American forces after they captured Bagdad and told them that there were no WMD's. He went missing...the Americans won't say where he is. His wife has been looking for him and was at the UN building when the bombing occurred. She lived. The main reason for the NPR story seemed to be that she had been thought dead but was found alive. I think the main story is that our government is hiding away (or worse) people over there who are in a position to know what the real story is on WMD's. Any thread about Scott Ritter now makes me really wary!

because I think this is a really interesting thread. Scott Ritter? Here is a poster with 40+ or - posts and he/she is raising Scott Ritter? Straws? Grasping for a few?

Said only 65% of Iraq's destroyed WMDs were accounted for. Where did the other 35% go. Sorry but the UN wasn't trying to prove Iraq had weapons since Iraq admitted they had them after the Gulf War. Iraq is as big as California so I doubt we can locate WMDs in a few months, you anti-war folks said the UN inspectors should've been given years to look for WMDs yet you expect our untrained troops to find them in 5 months.

actually said that 95% of Iraq's WMD's were accounted for. Iraq claimed the balance had been destroyed, but couldn't prove it to UNSCOM's satisfaction, though the biological agents would have deteriorated to a useless goo.

I think the 95% weren't all weapons programs but weapons programs, chemical and bio agents, and methods of delivery. I honestly believe the program were still in existence although not in any form to constitute an immediate threat. I supported an eventual use of force against Iraq but felt the rush into it was unnecessary.

- Answer: disguise it as an 'innocent' question.

Who here is right-wing?

to give the UN more time--and you pro-war folks bought into * and company's "we know exactly where they are."

So? Where are they?

And I never said I did. But if a DUer says so, it must be true.

What's his sex life have to do with WMD's in Iraq?

A lot of 16 year old girls look like they're 25.

Gee, he might jerk off to Barely Legal. That discredits everything he's ever said about Iraq! What a scumbag!

Ritter's just lucky (so far) he hasn't ended up dead in the woods of "suicide"