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ITEM: In an interview with Time magazine on September 14th, former UN top weapons inspector Scott Ritter said that Iraq's Saddam Hussein doesn't seem to have weapons of mass destruction. Questioned about his drastic switch, Ritter stressed: "I have never given Iraq a clean bill of health! Never! Never!"
ITEM: Ritter is being widely vilified by the mainstream media, claimed Linda McQuaig in the September 15th Toronto Star. "TV hosts have openly questioned Ritter's loyalty as an American, indicating the media have taken on the function once performed by the McCarthy Committee on Un-American Activities."
CORRECTION: Contrary to McQuaig's assessment, Joseph McCarthy was a U.S. senator who became chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations -- never a member of the House, home of the referenced committee. Moreover, while Mr. Ritter's media treatment has been extensive, it has been essentially favorable.
Ritter has, however, attracted some detractors. But he called that fire in on himself. For he has said ...