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C'mon, dcutler
dcutler: Now it is a legitimate question to ask, now, in retrospect if he was correct. Were these actually independent Iraqi citizens or was he talking to representatives of the Iraqi government? He thought the latter, but your point is that in retrospect there is every reason to believe that it was the former.
The media thought Scott Ritter was a representative of the Iraqi government, let alone any stray Iraqi who had anything to say about it. In the run-up to the war, anyone who thought there should be no invasion was a "Saddam-lover", either in the pay of the Iraqi government or clearly delusional. File it under people-who-say-things-that-the-media-doesn't-want-to-hear.