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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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Revision as of 10:11, 21 August 2026

""Scott Ritter appears in Infrared streams in a critical register — Haz mocking the way Ritter is heroized by parts of the right.

From the COMMUNISM WINNING | INFRAWOKE stream

Riffing on Caleb Maupin's rally aesthetics — the white suit, the megaphone, the crowd of 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..."

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

References

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