Prologue: The Making of an Activist, Ritter versus Powell - A Documentary TaleArchived Message
Posted by sashimi on March 29, 2023, 10:16 am
28 March 2023
As we mark the 20th anniversary of the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, I will be publishing several vignettes about my journey from being a weapons inspector to vocal opponent of US policy in the Middle East. I will start with a brief review of the documented record about my clash with then-Secretary of State Colin Powell over weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the role of UN weapons inspectors in overseeing the disarmament of those weapons.