Scott Ritter, a former United Nations weapons inspector, has compared the invasion of Iraq to Hitler’s invasion of Poland. He told the Berliner Zeitung newspaper that 130 Americans had died “for a lie”, adding: “I see no difference between the invasion of Iraq and the invasion of Poland in 1939.” Both invasions were based on what he said was an artificial argument of self defence. President George W Bush had used the September 11 attacks as Hitler used the 1933 burning of the Reichstag to repress domestic dissidents. [Daily Telegraph, 5/7/03]
Not that Ritter has much credibility anymore, after soliciting an underage girl for sexual acts, and who wouldn’t describe what he saw in an Iraqi prison for children “because what I saw was so horrible that it can be used by those who would want to promote war with Iraq, and right now I’m waging peace.”