Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter Jr., noted critic of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, will speak on “The Intelligence Trap: Iraq and Iran,” Monday, Oct. 8 at 12:55 p.m. as part of Pizza & Politics.
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 Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf's staff during the Gulf War before his appointment as a weapons inspector for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM).
He repeatedly stated prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003 that Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction. Because of the prevailing political climate in the United States at the time, Ritter was widely condemned for his position.
Ritter produced the documentary “In Shifting Sands: The Truth About UNSCOM and the Disarming of Iraq.”
Pizza & Politics is sponsored by Pi Sigma Alpha and the Political Science Department and is funded through an Intellectual Enrichment Grant. This is Ritter’s third appearance at Union.