Scott Ritter, WMD's and selective memory

Caught Scott Ritter telling a porky in Conversation With Robert Scheer over at TruthDig the other day where he said:

"as a weapons inspector we were reporting these facts [that Iraq was disarmed] ...in the fall of 1993"

Actually, a little digging revealed quite the opposite as his interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth at PBS in August 1998 shows. Scott said then:

"Iraq still has prescribed weapons capability. There needs to be a careful distinction here. Iraq today is challenging the special commission to come up with a weapon and say where is the weapon in Iraq, and yet part of their efforts to conceal their capabilities, I believe, have been to disassemble weapons into various components and to hide these components throughout Iraq."

and on the need for a military deterrent against Iraq he continued:

"… without the real and credible threat of military force. ...You can’t expect to enforce the law unless you have the means to carry out the enforcement."

Hmmmmmm....