Scott Ritter, former Chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, will give a talk at Union College's Reamer Campus Center Auditorium on Feb. 15, 2006 at 6:30 p.m. The talk is free and open to the public.
Ritter will be discussing “Iraq: How We Got There, and Where We're Going.” This event is sponsored by Union College Campus Action/Union Progressives.
Ritter served for eight years as an intelligence officer in the Marine Corps, as an arms control inspector in the former Soviet Union and on General Norman Schwarzkopf's staff during the Gulf War before his appointment as a weapons inspector for UNSCOM. As the chief of the concealment investigations team, he oversaw efforts to uncover the weapons of mass destruction capability of Iraq.
His experiences were chronicled in Iraq in Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem — Once and For All, published in 1999 by Simon & Schuster. Fox News Network has called on him as a guest consultant on the military and security often since 9/11.
Ritter also produced the documentary “In Shifting Sands: The Truth About Unscom and the Disarming of Iraq.”
This is Ritter's second appearance at Union College. He served as a panelist at a public forum in October of 2001. Entitled “September 11, 2001: The Repercussions One Month Later,” it was designed to shed light on the factors — religious, economic, and political – that may have triggered the attacks, and to analyze the United States' offensive on terrorism.