"Iraq was based on a lie"

(CBS4) BOULDER, Colo. Former United Nation's weapons inspector Scott Ritter told several hundred people at the University of Colorado Wednesday night that the war in Iraq was based on a lie.
"The foundation of our involvement in Iraq is as corrupt as you can possibly imagine," Ritter said. "We went to war on a lie."
He compared himself to the detective character Columbo. Ritter said he thought it was his job to uncover the truth in Iraq and find weapons of mass destruction during the 1990s.
"So when you hear that 'we believe there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,' I'm here to tell you right now the CIA knew that there were no weapons of mass destruction," he said.
Bob Martinez, chair of the Colorado Republican Party, was outside Ritter's speech in Boulder. He said Ritter's comments were irresponsible.
"We're at war with Islamo-Fascists who have vowed to destroy our way of life," Martinez said. "The students should remember the scenes that they watched on September 11th and what really happened that day." /read more/

Ritter resigned from the United Nations in 1998. He was a Marine before becoming a U.N. weapons inspector.