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05/29/2003 Archived Entry: "Ritter slaps O'Reilly around a bit."
Ritter slaps O'Reilly around a bit.
Someone at BartCop Forum posted a snippet of the transcript of Scott Ritter's appearance on the O'Reilly Factor. Too juicy not to post here. Ritter delivers the smackdown a couple of times. They're talking about those WMD trailers...
RITTER: They don't have the people who built it. The people who built it have said that this is used to produce hydrogen for meteorological balloons.O'REILLY: All right, but Mr. Ritter, meteorological balloons?
RITTER: Yes, that's -- well, look, I have been in the artillery. I don't know if you have, Bill...
O'REILLY: No, I haven't.
RITTER: ... but I've been in field artillery, and we fly met balloons. You need to have the weather report at the higher altitudes when you fire artillery shells.
O'REILLY: All right.
RITTER: But the CIA also said that aluminum tubes -- back if you recall when I went to Iraq in 2002, September -- these aluminum tubes for centrifuges? I said, no, they're used for artillery rockets. The CIA came out and said, no, we believe they're used for enrichment. I was right. They were used for...
O'REILLY: But here, you were wrong about this, and we have a minute left. All right?
RITTER: I haven't been wrong about anything regarding weapons of mass destruction.
O'REILLY: No, you were wrong about the war. You said the United States is going to leave Iraq with its tails between its legs, defeated.
RITTER: Oh my gosh, we already lost the war, Bill.
O'REILLY: 3/25/03. Well, wait, if you think that we lost that war, then people are going to say -- and you are entitled to your opinion -- that you are nuts.
RITTER: Really? In 1965, Bill, when the First Cav Division fought the Vietnamese in the (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Valley, did we win that battle? We sure did. We won every battle after that, too, but I believe in 1975, it was an American helicopter flying off the embassy taking the last American out. We're neck deep in a quagmire in Iraq. We lost the war, Bill.
Update: B3 reader Dave clarifies the 'unintelligible' part of the transcript:
The (UNINTELLIGIBLE) is almost certainly “Ia Drang” From THE BATTLE OF IA DRANG VALLEY:
“The battle of the Ia Drang Valley [IDV] was actually of series of engagements between the US 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) and the B-3 Front, North Vietnamese Army (NVA) from 10-18 to 11-24-65,
Many considered it to be the US Army's 1st battle in Vietnam .”
Thanks, Dave!
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Hearts and minds Bill hearts and minds.
Posted by kuma @ 05/29/2003 12:40 PM NY
Someone with some time should put together the quotes from Scott Ritter over the years, add the quotes from the polititians and the media attachking him and then the facts as they have become recognized.
Posted by Nathan James @ 06/03/2003 01:44 PM NY
