Scott ritter is a conflicted scumbag that has flip-floped twice and got paid off by Saddam.

"March 19, 2002 |   During the Gulf War, Scott Ritter, then a junior military intelligence analyst, picked a fight with his boss. He filed one report after another challenging Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf's claims about the number of destroyed Iraqi Scud missiles. We cannot confirm these kills, Ritter reported, much to Schwarzkopf's bewilderment. Despite pressure from the top, Ritter, a Marine captain from a military family, held his ground, challenging his superiors and the establishment.
That was just a warm-up for the man the New York Times called "the most famous renegade Marine officer since Oliver North."
http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/03/19/ritter/index_np.html

"By 1995, Ritter said both he and former chief weapons inspector Rolf Ekeus believed Iraq was ''fundamentally disarmed.'' He noted that the head of Iraq's weapons programs - Saddam's son-in-law Hussein Kamal al-Majid - told Ekeus after he defected to Jordan in August 1995 that all of Iraq's banned weapons had been destroyed."
http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/2001/msg00649.html

(in 1998) "He claimed that Saddam had as many as three nuclear weapons ready for use as soon as he could lay his hands on the necessary fissile material (hence all the excitement over Iraq's attempts to procure uranium from Niger). He also severely undermined UNSCOM's credibility by revealing that he had worked closely with Israeli intelligence for much of his seven-year tenure, thereby confirming Iraqi suspicions that UNSCOM was nothing more than a front for a variety of Western intelligence agencies." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/10/30/borit30.xml

"To compel Iraq into compliance, he told the BBC that year (1998): "Iraq should be subjected to a major campaign that seeks to destroy the regime of Saddam Hussein."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2247600.stm

"Ritter said, "The Clinton administration has proven itself particularly adept at destroying coalitions created for just causes. We had a coalition arrayed against Iraq, which was supportive of the disarmament requirement of Iraq. But the Clinton administration's narrow-minded policies of regime removal and continuation of economic sanctions effectively destroyed that coalition."
http://www.cnn.com/books/news/9903/30/ritter/

"WILLIAM SCOTT RITTER, JR.: Iraq still has prescribed weapons capability. There needs to be a careful distinction here. Iraq today is challenging the special commission to come up with a weapon and say where is the weapon in Iraq, and yet part of their efforts to conceal their capabilities, I believe, have been to disassemble weapons into various components and to hide these components throughout Iraq."
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec98/ritter_8-31.html

"Mr Ritter formed a partnership with Mr al-Khafaji to finance the film, Shifting Sands which, according to Mr Ritter, "proved" that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction. In an interview with the New York Times in 2001, Mr Ritter stated that none of Mr al-Khafaji's funding came from Saddam's regime. Of the £250,000 spent on the film, he said that only £26,250 went into his own pocket.

While he confirmed that he had received money from Mr al-Khafaji, Mr Ritter said that he had had his business associate checked by CIA "sources" via a friend who was a reporter, and was reassured." Later he claimed the deal was approved by the State Department.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/04/writt04.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/05/04/ixnewstop.html

"On January 25, 2004, a daily newspaper in Iraq called al Mada published a list of individuals and organizations who it says received oil from the now-deposed regime. Among those listed is Shakir al Khafaji, an Iraqi-American from Detroit, who ran "Expatriate Conferences" for the regime in Baghdad. Al Khafaji also contributed $400,000 to the production of Scott Ritter's film "In Shifting Sands." Finally, al Khafaji arranged travel and financing for the "Baghdad Democrats"--Jim McDermott, Mike Thompson and David Bonior--last fall. Following the trip, al Khafaji contributed $5,000 to McDermott's Legal Defense Fund."
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/605fgcob.asp