September 12, 2002

Contact:

Sarah Ray

802-443-5794

sray@middlebury.edu

Posted: September 11, 2002

MIDDLEBURY,

Vt.-Scott Ritter,

former chief weapons inspector for the United Nations Special Commission

in Iraq, will give a talk titled “The Coming War With Iraq: How Did

We Get Here?” on Monday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall

of the Middlebury College Center for the Arts on South Main Street (Route

30). Both the talk and a reception immediately following it are free and

open to the public.

A former major in the United

States Marines, Ritter is an ardent critic of the current Bush administration’s

plans for war against Iraq. Ritter participated in 30 inspection missions

during the 1990s, 14 of them as chief. His talk will include his assessment

of the state of Iraq’s military capabilities, particularly in the area

of weapons of mass destruction. He will also discuss the U.N. sanctions

against Iraq, which he believes have had a devastating impact on the Iraqi

people.

For more information, contact

Charlotte Tate at the Middlebury College Center for International Affairs

at tate@middlebury.edu or 802-443-5795.