Amici,
No great surprise that Scott Ritter would get the ban hammer from Deep State Twitter. He frustrated Cheney/Bush by delaying their incursion into Iraq. Ritter was the UN chief weapons inspector who pushed back against the neocons. They were itching to go into Iraq. The narrative was that Iraqi scientists were not cooperating with the weapons inspections, so there was no point in waiting any longer. Ritter would not be pushed. He continued flying around Iraq, going from site to site and reporting that he was not finding caches of WMDs.
When the narrative changed to say that the inspections needed to end because the inspectors were at risk, Ritter stated that he did not feel sufficiently at risk.
The inspections stopped only after the company that insured the helicopters used by Ritter and his team notified the helicopter company that their coverage would no longer be good for such missions in Iraq. A couple of weeks after the weapons inspectors were forced to pull out, that very same helicopter service was flying the same helicopters in Iraq. At the time, AIG was the largest insurer of commercial helicopters. Five years later in the Great Recession, AIG was bailed out by the Fed. (Funny how those things work./sarc)
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