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06/25/2004:

"Americans were 'bushwhacked,' weapons inspector Ritter says"

Claiming Americans were "bushwhacked," Scott Ritter, former United Nations chief weapons inspector in Iraq, believes President Bush not only hid the truth, but he used deception to get citizen support for the war.

"Instead of presenting the issue honestly to the American people, face-to-face, and letting us decide, we were bushwhacked behind our backs," he said.

Ritter, who is one of the Bush Administration's principal critics over the war, will deliver a first-hand account of the Iraqi dilemma and its failures this Monday, June 28, at the Napa Valley Opera House at 7 p.m.

"Look at the evidence coming out now. Clearly we were lied to about the link to Al-Qaeda, about the weapons of mass destruction, and about Saddam Hussein being a threat to the United States," Ritter said. "We were told we'd be greeted with flowers--It'll never happen."
Full Article : www.napanews.com