In an article on July 20, 2002, former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter wrote: ” ‘I bear personal witness through seven years as a chief weapons inspector in Iraq for the United Nations to both the scope of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs and the effectiveness of the U.N. weapons inspectors in ultimately eliminating them.’ ”
– Scott Ritter, “Is Iraq a True Threat to the US?,” The Boston Globe, July 20, 2002