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(WalterM140) wrote:



Zinni believes this was a war the generals didn’t want - but it was a
war the
civilians wanted.

“I can't speak for all generals, certainly. But I know we felt that
this
situation was contained. Saddam was effectively contained. The no-fly,
no-drive
zones. The sanctions that were imposed on him,” says Zinni."

I have been unable to avoid paraphrasing this, but I fear I must do it
to stop it bouncing around my skull.

"General Zinni said that he generally avoids generalizations about the
general belief of all generals, but, in this case, he believes the
general consensus of generals is that the general policy of containment
was, in general, effective."