Back in the fall of 2002, six months before George W. Bush sent U.S. troops rumbling across the Kuwaiti border into Iraq, a Time reporter noted to Scott Ritter that some right-wingers were calling Ritter “the new Jane Fonda” and wondering what he’d call his new exercise video.
“If they want to have an exercise video,” snorted Ritter, “then why don’t they come here and say it to my face and I’ll give ’em an exercise video, which will be called, ‘Scott Ritter Kicking Their Ass.’”
Confrontation comes easily to Ritter, the former Marine officer, advisor to Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf during the first Gulf War, U.N. weapons inspector and unflinching critic of Bush’s misadventure in Iraq. You want a fight? No problem. He’ll give you one.
Read the whole thing. It’s long, but it’s fascinating, it’s energizing. It’s what every Democrat candidate should be saying.
Completely irrelevant, but my email and site host are completely offline–apparently ALL servers. I’ve also had odd things happening on my computer, but have been unable to a) get IE to work (I’m primarily a Firefox user) and b) download updates, virus checkers, etc. Baaaaad bug must be afoot–
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P.S. That would be Lunarpages.
Scott Ritter is a tough guy. I met him when he spoke at a forum put together by a couple of my friends (I blogged about it on the SoCal Grassroots site) and he is definitely a straight-shooter. Though it was funny when a couple of other friends and I were talking with Scott. For various reasons I can’t recount the conversation in question here, but suffice it to say that we all laughed when Scott looked at us askance and declared, “You Progressives are violent people.”
He’s in San Pedro as I type, speaking at an event with the congressional candidate I’m working for – I wish I could be there. Damned school!