Why would the truth ever matter to reactionaries?
I was against the Iraq War from the beginning, but I never claimed to know what they would find there. The Bush administration was obviously distorting data, but I was not privy to any other intelligence. One thing I noticed at the time was that Scott Ritter was a consistent contrarian voice (whenever he was given a chance to speak). He said that there would not be any WMDs except for leftovers from before the first Gulf War that didn’t work anymore. I thought this was an amazing prediction, but worthy of some attention since Ritter had been there inspecting Iraq’s weapons. Ritter was smeared in the march to war but I had this idea (naive in retrospect) that if his prediction turned out to be truth that he’d get some credit. This has still not happened, even though the scenario in Iraq (including the current quagmire) looks almost exactly like what Ritter said to expect some 3 1/2 years ago.
