Trump is now doomed, and Scott Ritter explains himself.

Trump is now doomed, and Scott Ritter explains himself.

4 March 2026, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

A stunning interview of Scott Ritter, at around noon on February 28th, started with him explaining why he believes that Iran will win its war to defend itself against the two aggressor-nations (U.S.-Israel) that are trying to conquer it; and, then, at 28:06, he went into an impassioned account of what has been driving him to report, for decades now, the constant lies by the U.S. Government regarding the Middle East. Here is the latter portion of it:

“[SPECIAL] - Scott Ritter : Trump attacks Iran - ‘Epic Fury’ or Epic FAIL?”

28 February 2026, Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom

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This man is

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talking about striking targets to, uh, you know, to to defend Americans and all

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that. I’ve been to war. Um, in in in the Gulf War, you know, I was involved in

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targeting, and one of the things that uh, we did is we targeted a a a place called

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the Amaria bomb shelter. We knew it was a bomb shelter, but we had good intelligence that said it was had been

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converted to be used as a national level command and control facility. To be exempt, just so the people understand

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what I’m talking about, um, we were hunting Scud missiles unsuccessfully.

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Israel was ready to get involved in this war and we had to prevent Israel from doing that. In order to do that, we had to show that we were seriously hunting

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down Scud missiles. We believed that the command and control for the Scud missiles were being carried out by

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Saddam Hussein. And Saddam Hussein uses — used a system called the Mark1 14 radio

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telephone. It was made by Siemens. It was an encrypted um radio telephone uh

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system uh with a unique signature, unique frequency ranges, etc. And we had

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detected the Mark1 14 signal coming from antennas associated with this bomb

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shelter. And we had reason to believe that uh the Iraqis had located senior

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command and control in this place. And so, you know, we reviewed it. We reviewed it. We reviewed it. There was

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no indication that it was being used as a bomb shelter. Um, I helped pick the impact points. And my job was, when the

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mission strike came back to look at the photographs to determine whether or not we did it. And I know that we had to put

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two GBU 28s through the same hole to achieve the result. And we did it. We

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destroyed it. and I signed it off as destroyed and I was feeling pretty good. A little while later, CNN came on and we

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found out that we had hit a bomb shelter and 408 women and children were dead, killed, the most horrible kind of death.

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When the first bomb went in, it created fire that trapped them. Neighbors could hear the women and children screaming

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trying to get out. The second bomb came in, ignited, and it boiled. The firefighters were putting the water in,

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and all of these bodies got turned into fat. That’s what happened there. And there’s not a single day

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you know that that that doesn’t haunt you. It haunts you for the rest of your

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life. [Now he’s talking about today:] We have hit two children’s schools.

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We have bombed two children’s schools. 63 dead children, girls, little girls

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dead. Their mothers waiting for their daughters to come home. They sent their daughters to school on the belief that

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there wouldn’t be a war because there was diplomacy going on, that there wouldn’t be a war because Marco Rubio

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said he was traveling to the region in Monday. So they sent their girls to a school. The girls were in school and we

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bombed it and we bombed another one. There’s a hundred girls buried under that rubble being dug out now. Girls that

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will not survive. This is the horror of war. But what I’m

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trying to say is, at least when I was involved in the bombing of the Amaria shelter, we did our damnedest to make

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sure that it was a military target. We were wrong and it haunts you forever. What in God’s name could lead us to bomb

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two girls schools? I’m involved in this. I did this for a

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living. I know you don’t make those mistakes. This is the sloppiest kind of

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targeting possible. This is what happens when a a military is told you must sustain a

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strike, we must hit certain numbers of targets and they’re given artificial metrics to meet and so are desperately

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looking for anything. And they bombed two girls schools, killing scores of

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young little girls. This is what we’re doing, judge. This is the war we’re

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fighting. It’s indefensible. It’s not just inhuman, it’s criminal. We have

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waged an illegal war of aggression against a nation that did not pose a threat to us, was bending over backwards

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to meet any demand we put on them about their nuclear program. And yet we lied, lied, lied, lied, and now 63 little

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school girls are dead. It’s uh it’s horrific.

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Then, he goes into how the members of Congress, including the Democrats (though mainly passively) are guilty right along with Trump. This is evilness by a Government NOT merely by a President and a Congress, nor by a Party; it is evilness by the U.S. regime. It needs to be “regime-changed.” The system itself must be replaced. Ritter gives as an example at the Presidential level: SecWar Hegseth fired the head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for having made public that in the June invasion of Iran, Iran’s nuclear program had been set back only a few months by the US strikes, contradicting assertions from Trump and Netanyahu. (One of the excuses for the current invasion of Iran is that Iran has ‘rebuilt its nuclear facilities’, which admits the fired official was right, but trusts that the public are too dumb to notice the regime’s self-contradiction.)

America is in extremis now.

On March 2nd, Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris — two of the best international-relations analysts — headlined “Trump’s Iran war debacle.” They explained (perhaps in too much detail) the bull-headedness of Trump. They also repeated all the many details in which they had accurately predicted the outcomes that have since become history, but they avoided mentioning the many instances in which their analyses have been favorable — always unrealistically so — toward Trump and accepting the sincerity of his ‘anti-war’ statements and intentions (and contrary to my constant assertions that Trump is a psychopath and entirely untrustworthy except in fulfilling his most extremely right-wing promises, but zero on his progressive promises, such as his saying that he opposes America’s regime-change wars). Nonetheless, despite their being unrealistically trusting of Trump’s honesty, they have almost the highest percentage of predictions that have since become true, and the lowest percentage that were false, of ANY international-affairs commentators. (Among the few commentators who are also in their league — along with Scott Ritter and both Alex and Alexander — have been Larry C. Johnson, Douglas Macgregor, Garland Nixon, Mark Sleboda, Brian Berletic, Lawrence Wilkerson, Simplicius76, and “Moon of Alabama.” All of them are authentic geostrategic experts, and this is why U.S.-and-allied mainstream news-media don’t hire any of them as commentators — they are far too good, far too true.)

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.