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	"'''"Scott Ritter''' ~~appears~~ in ~~Infrared~~ streams ~~in a critical register~~ — ~~Haz mocking the way Ritter is heroized by parts of~~ the ~~right~~.		'''Scott Ritter''' gets mocked in Haz's streams — not for his Iraq record but for the hero-worship economy around him.

	== From the [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/007a6ff2-3861-4c00-af25-e5aff3e9d04c/ COMMUNISM WINNING \| INFRAWOKE stream] ==		== From the [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/007a6ff2-3861-4c00-af25-e5aff3e9d04c/ COMMUNISM WINNING \| INFRAWOKE stream] ==
	Riffing on Caleb Maupin's rally aesthetics — ~~the~~ white suit, ~~the~~ megaphone, ~~the crowd of~~ seniors in blue shirts:		Riffing on Caleb Maupin's rally aesthetics — white suit, megaphone, seniors in blue shirts:

	> "They're making it seem like he's a hero... 'Scott Ritter, Scott Ritter!' ~~I mean, they're making it seem like this~~ guy ~~is heroic. Scott Ritter~~ always lies all the time. He's always just bullshitting all the time... Imagine: a room with 12 senior citizens, told to wear blue shirts, and you wear the white outfit..."		> "They're making it seem like he's a hero... 'Scott Ritter! Scott Ritter!' This guy always lies all the time. He's always just bullshitting all the time... Imagine: a room with 12 senior citizens told to wear blue shirts, and you wear the white outfit."

	== The nuance ==		== The nuance ==
	~~Haz's~~ critique ~~here~~ is ~~of the '''hero-worship economy'''~~ of alt-media ~~— retired officials repackaged as~~ oracle-~~figures —~~ not necessarily ~~a rejection of Ritter's~~ Iraq-inspection record itself. ~~The lesson~~ Haz ~~draws~~ elsewhere (the laptop, Douma, OPCW~~) stands on documents and physical evidence,~~ not on authority-figures of either establishment or anti-establishment variety ([[OPCW]], [[Bread and Circuses]]).		The critique is of alt-media's oracle-figure economy, not necessarily the Iraq-inspection record itself. Haz's method elsewhere runs on documents and physical evidence — the laptop, Douma, OPCW — not authority figures of either establishment or anti-establishment variety ([[OPCW]], [[Bread and Circuses]]).

	== See also ==		== See also ==
	* [[OPCW]]
	* [[2018 Douma Chemical Attacks]]		* [[2018 Douma Chemical Attacks]]

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	'''~~''Waging Peace: The New York Times and the Iraq War''~~''' — ~~Scott Ritter's study of how the paper of record laundered~~ the ~~Bush administration's WMD claims into war consensus.~~ Ritter~~, the former UN weapons inspector (Marine Corps intelligence officer, UNSCOM 1991-1998) who famously resigned and spent 2001-2002 insisting Iraq had been disarmed, documents the media-manufacture~~ of the ~~2003 invasion~~.		"'''"Scott Ritter''' appears in Infrared streams in a critical register — Haz mocking the way Ritter is heroized by parts of the right.

	== ~~Content~~ ==		== From the [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/007a6ff2-3861-4c00-af25-e5aff3e9d04c/ COMMUNISM WINNING \| INFRAWOKE stream] ==
	* The Times' Judith Miller/Michael Gordon stenography of Ahmed Chalabi's ~~defectors and Curveball's fabrications.~~		Riffing on Caleb Maupin's rally aesthetics — the white suit, the megaphone, the crowd of seniors in blue shirts:
	* The suppression and spin of ~~contrary evidence — including Ritter's own on-record inspections data showing 90-95% disarmament by 1998.~~
	* The broader mechanism: ~~war consensus as joint product of intelligence manipulation and careerist journalism.~~

	== Ritter's ~~later trajectory~~ ==		> "They're making it seem like he's a hero... 'Scott Ritter, Scott Ritter!' I mean, they're making it seem like this guy is heroic. Scott Ritter always lies all the time. He's always just bullshitting all the time... Imagine: a room with 12 senior citizens, told to wear blue shirts, and you wear the white outfit..."
	Ritter ~~became a prominent anti~~-~~war voice~~, and ~~after 2022 a controversial commentator on the Russia-Ukraine war (pro-Russian forecasts~~, ~~appearances~~ on ~~Russian media). Infrared cites his Iraq work as primary~~-~~source evidence~~ of ~~how empire manufactures consent — the same machinery later applied to Syria~~ (~~see~~ [[~~2018 Douma Chemical Attacks~~]]) ~~and Russia~~.
			== The nuance ==
			Haz's critique here is of the '''hero-worship economy''' of alt-media — retired officials repackaged as oracle-figures — not necessarily a rejection of Ritter's Iraq-inspection record itself. The lesson Haz draws elsewhere (the laptop, Douma, OPCW) stands on documents and physical evidence, not on authority-figures of either establishment or anti-establishment variety ([[OPCW]], [[Bread and Circuses]]).

	== See also ==		== See also ==
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	[[Category:~~Iraq War~~]][[Category:~~Media~~]][[Category:~~People~~]]		[[Category:People]][[Category:Iraq War]][[Category:Media]]

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'''''Waging Peace: The New York Times and the Iraq War''''' — Scott Ritter's study of how the paper of record laundered the Bush administration's WMD claims into war consensus. Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector (Marine Corps intelligence officer, UNSCOM 1991-1998) who famously resigned and spent 2001-2002 insisting Iraq had been disarmed, documents the media-manufacture of the 2003 invasion.

== Content ==
* The Times' Judith Miller/Michael Gordon stenography of Ahmed Chalabi's defectors and Curveball's fabrications.
* The suppression and spin of contrary evidence — including Ritter's own on-record inspections data showing 90-95% disarmament by 1998.
* The broader mechanism: war consensus as joint product of intelligence manipulation and careerist journalism.

== Ritter's later trajectory ==
Ritter became a prominent anti-war voice, and after 2022 a controversial commentator on the Russia-Ukraine war (pro-Russian forecasts, appearances on Russian media). Infrared cites his Iraq work as primary-source evidence of how empire manufactures consent — the same machinery later applied to Syria (see [[2018 Douma Chemical Attacks]]) and Russia.

== See also ==
* [[OPCW]]
* [[2018 Douma Chemical Attacks]]

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Iraq War]][[Category:Media]][[Category:People]]