Weapons inspector discusses Iran  The United States may be about
to make as serious a blunder in Iran as it did when it launched
the 2003 invasion of Iraq, former Marine intelligence officer
and U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter said at a Morse College
Master’s Tea on Thursday.  Ritter told an audience of about 40
students and faculty members that International Atomic Energy
Agency nuclear weapon inspectors in Iran have had their findings
manipulated for political ends — similar to the situation of
their U.N. counterparts in 2002, during the lead-up to the Iraq
war. Ritter said the current administration has irresponsibly
framed any lack of evidence against the existence of weapons of
mass destruction as justification for possible war, particularly
in the current diplomatic standoff with Iran over its nuclear
program.  “[Inspectors] are finding all the data necessary, but
the political powers that be don’t care about disarmament and
nonproliferation,” he said. “They have other policy objectives,
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