February 16, 2005
Scott Ritter: Fifth Columnist for Jihad's Fourth Estate
Scott Ritter has worn a lot of hats in his day: UN weapons inspector, apologist for Uncle Sociopath, FNC military analyst, deranged Bush-hater, and recipient of close to half a million dollars from a pro-Saddam Iraqi-American for his documentary on Iraq. Well, now he's got one more—a dashing Al-Jazeera kaffiyeh. And man, does he wear it well. (salute to Rory)

That's right, kuffar—Mr. Ritter seems to have found a welcoming atmosphere writing for Al-Jazeera's English web site. In a prolix, defeatist harangue ostensibly about the so-called Salvador option that we were all talking about last month, Ritter let's the mask of temperate equanimity slip all the way off to show himself as the America-hating, mujahideen cheerleader that he is.

The all-out offensive to break the back of the resistance in Falluja has failed, leaving a city destroyed by American firepower, and still very much in the grips of the anti-American fighters.

In a campaign of targeted assassinations using car bombs and ambushes, the resistance has engaged in its own campaign of terror against the Shia, viewed by the Sunni fighters as being little more than collaborators of the American occupation.

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.

And history will condemn the immorality of the American occupation, which has debased the values and ideals of the American people by legitimising torture, rape and murder as a means of furthering an illegal war of aggression.

As an American, I have hoped that there was a way for America to emerge victorious in Iraq, with our national security and honour intact, and Iraq itself a better nation than the one we "liberated". But it is far too late for this to happen.

We not only invaded Iraq on false pretences, but we perverted the notion of liberation by removing Saddam and his cronies from his palaces, replacing them with American occupiers who have not only kept open Saddam's most notorious prisons, but also the practice of torture, rape and abuse we were supposed to be bringing to an end.

If Ward Churchill loses his position at the Univerity of Colorado, I'd say that Mr. Ritter could definitely be on the fast track to becoming his replacement. Or maybe a joint authorship on Noam Chomsky's next waste of trees might be in the offing.

Ritter's increasingly irrational fits of moonbattery serve to remind us that suffering the nihilistic behavior of raving anti-America American loons is part of the price we pay to live in a free society.

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