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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''' gets mocked in Haz's streams — not for his Iraq record but for the hero-worship economy around him.


== 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 — white suit, megaphone, 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!' 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."
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 ==
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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Latest revision as of 10:50, 21 August 2026

Scott Ritter gets mocked in Haz's streams — not for his Iraq record but for the hero-worship economy around him.

From the COMMUNISM WINNING | INFRAWOKE stream

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!' 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 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

References

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