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Published on Monday, September 23, 2002 in the Chicago Tribune
Ex-Marine Wages Loud Fight Against War
by Frank James
WASHINGTON -- Scott Ritter is a self-described patriot on a self-appointed mission.
The 41-year-old former United Nations weapons inspector has said his duty is to be one of the most vocal and visible critics of President Bush's Iraq policy.
He accuses the administration of offering no more than a trumped-up case for a pre-emptive strike against Iraq. He has likened the administration's tactics to those of a police officer who plants "evidence" on a suspect to help win a conviction.
What's more, he says, the White House is cynically using the "rhetoric of fear and ignorance" in the anxious, post-Sept. 11 era to drum up support for expanding the war on terror to Iraq.
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