General Zinni on Sixty Minutes

"WalterM140" wrote in message
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I wrote:

What I can't understand how little you seem to care about the guys who are
getting KIA and WIA following up on a bad policy -- and what General Zinni
called --dereliction-- of-- duty--.

I just can't figure it.

Ed:

Trust me, I care very much about the folks in uniform.

Then act like it.

General Zinni:

"My son is a Marine Officer in the infantry. I lost a member of my family in
Iraq, the son of my cousin, already. So, it's become very personal. Not to
mention, just every one of those faces I see, I recognize. I mean, not
directly, but these are, I mean, knew those sergeants and corporals and PFCs
after 40 years, that paid a price for this, you know?"

You might consider that sort of thing yourself.

The former SecNav and the former CG of Centcom are calling this a blunder -- a
blunder attended with 5,000 casualties, and all you do is spout the Bushco
blather.

While we're at it, let's give the other critics who also knew a little about
wars their due. No need to omit Brent Scowcroft, Norman Scwarzkopf, or Wesley
Clark from the list of those who gave long years of service to their country and
who, like Anthony Zinni, think this war was a disaster from the gitgo. All of
the fishing around looking for excuses to go to war that the public might buy
done by our leaders tells us that this was a war fought to satisfy their
visceral needs far more than it served our nation's needs. They just couldn't
resist satisfying the need to be heroes if they could find a way to do it
without risk to their skins. That explains going to war a lot more than the
phony excuses they tried to foist off on us, one after another as they failed to
hold water on presentation.

George Z.

Walt