Turns out that former UN inspector Scott Ritter, a formerly tough critic of Saddam who performed an abrupt about-face a few years ago to become an apologist for the Iraqi regime, was busted by upstate New York police in June 2001 for “ha[ving] a sexual discussion on the Internet with an undercover investigator he thought was an underage girl.” This explains volumes. Has Ritter been blackmailed by the Iraqis? Have his own sins made him squeamish about judging even mass murderers, or eager to be reassured of his own moral refinement by declaring himself a Man of Peace?