[Peace-discuss] Best response to Sen. Diane Feinstein's death from Scott Ritter

[J.B. Nicholson]

Quoting https://twitter.com/RealScottRitter/status/1707760992300490794 from Scott 
Ritter who is a former UN Weapons Inspector, former USMC Intelligence Officer, 
currently an author and an analyst. You can find episodes of his show, "Ask the 
Inspector" on https://rumble.com/c/USTourOfDuty . The upcoming episode airs tonight 
at https://rumble.com/v3lldbv-scott-ritter-extra-ep.-102-ask-the-inspector.html

Here's Ritter not long after news of Sen. Diane Feinstein broke that she had died 
this week, aged 90:
> I met Senator Diane Feinstein once, in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
> She had just recently been assigned to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
> (in 2001), and it was in that capacity that she had a senior staffer from the
> committee ask me to come to Washington DC to brief her on Iraqi WMD and the
> allegations being made by the Bush administration that Iraq continued to possess
> them. We met in a secure conference room in the Capital building—me, the Senator,
> and a half dozen staffers and aides. It was a polite, professional affair, with
> the Senator asking questions and taking notes. Eventually she confronted me—“Your
> position is causing us some difficulty. You are making the US look bad in the eyes
> of the world.” I replied that my analysis and the underlying facts were rock
> solid, something she agreed with. I said that while I knew she couldn’t reveal
> sensitive intelligence, if she could look me in the eye and say she has seen
> unequivocal proof that Iraq retained WMD, I’d shut up and go away. She looked at
> her retinue, and then me. “I have seen no such intelligence,” she replied. She
> thanked me for the briefing, and said it provided her with “food for thought.”
> 
> On October 11, 2002, Senator Feinstein voted in favor of the resolution
> authorizing war with Iraq. Later, she said she had been misled by the Bush
> administration and bad intelligence.
> 
> I will forever know Senator Feinstein as someone who had been empowered by the
> truth, and lacked the moral courage to act on it. The blood of thousands of
> Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis stains her soul. I hope when she
> stands in judgment before her maker, she is punished accordingly.
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