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Thread #87918   Message #1646100
Posted By: CarolC
11-Jan-06 - 01:06 AM
Thread Name: BS: scott ritter speaks
Subject: RE: BS: scott ritter speaks
Nope. Just the one source. I know this because only one source showed up in the Google search (using the first sentance of Ritter's speech as the search parameters), and because you included one of Bob Geiger's editorial comments inside the body of the Ritter text. Here it is, bolded...


"Our troops took an oath to uphold and defend that Constitution and yet they went to war in violation of that Constitution. Ladies and gentlemen, this is about as un-American a war as one can possibly imagine and we must register that fact when we talk about why we're there and where we're going.

Thank you very much.

The other part I want to make sure you see, is this excerpt from an impassioned Ritter at about the one-hour point in the debate, when he seemed backed into the corner of "defending" Saddam Hussein. Watch how he punches his way out of that corner:

I'm not here to defend Saddam Hussein or his regime. I'm not. I'm here to defend the United States of America and our way of life and I'm here to tell you right now that if you support this war, if you support this occupation, you support a process that represents the erosion of what it means to be an American."


However, Geiger does provide an mp3 of the audio for the debate from which Ritter's comments were taken.