Zinni condemns administration in new Tom Clancy book

[carolinayellowdog]

In the current Publisher's Weekly is a review of Battle Ready, latest in Clancy's nonfiction Commanders series, featuring General Tony Zinni. The review opens with this quote: "In the lead-up to the Iraq War and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility, at worse, (sic) lying, incompetence, and corruption."

Most of the book details Zinni's career since 1998, but the closing statement of 24 pages sums up his service "and the ways in which he feels his generation's legacy is in jeopardy."

[buycitgo]

1. thank you, yellowdog! I HATE clancy......

as much for being a TERRIBLE writer as for being a wingnut shill, but this is an excellent development

Zinni is a TRUE HERO

read this wonderful article, which pretty much encapsulates a real patriot; a man who had his eyes opened, much in the manner of his precursor, John Paul Vann:

Anthony Zinni's opposition to U.S. policy on Iraq began on the monsoon-ridden afternoon of Nov. 3, 1970. He was lying on a Vietnamese mountainside west of Da Nang, three rounds from an AK-47 assault rifle in his side and back. He could feel his lifeblood seeping into the ground as he slipped in and out of consciousness. He had plenty of time to think while recuperating. He promised himself that "if I'm ever in a position to say what I think is right, I will. ... I don't care what happens to my career." That time has arrived.

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Anthony Zinni's passage from obedient general to outspoken opponent began in the unlikeliest of locations: the 2002 national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Zinni was to receive the group's Dwight D. Eisenhower Distinguished Service Award, recognition for his 35 years in the Marine Corps.

Vice President Dick Cheney was also there, delivering a speech on foreign policy. Sitting on stage behind Cheney, Zinni grew puzzled. He had endorsed Bush and Cheney two years earlier, just after retiring from his last military post, as chief of the U.S. Central Command, which oversees operations in Iraq. But he was alarmed at Cheney's words: "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction," Cheney said. "There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us." Cheney's certitude bewildered Zinni. At Central Command, Zinni had been immersed in U.S. intelligence about Iraq. He was all too familiar with analysts' doubts about Iraq's programs to acquire weapons of mass destruction, or WMD. "In my time at Centcom, I watched the intelligence, and never — not once — did it say, '(Saddam) has WMD.' "

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5438.htm

Header from above site: "News you won't find on CNN"

much much more here.

amazing that, among all the pentagon mouthpieces one hears on TV, Zinni is on how often? like, uh, NEVER?

[Karenina]

2. KICK!

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