[laconic]

General Zinni was so "unsavory" that current President Bush appointed him his envoy for the Middle East. He's so "unsavory" that he was a distinguished Marine general and combat veteran with forty years experience. He's so "unsavory" that he's one of the best speakers I've ever heard on national TV.

[OKSooner]

Ping.

[maica]

Tom Clancy is keeping strange company!

CDI has always been used by the lib media to trot out anti-war commentary by retired military brass.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Ping

[Dane]

BTTT

[pgkdan]

- The U.S.S. Cole was bombed in Aden by al Qaeda. The rules of engagement in force under General Zinni's command enabled the terrorists to approach the Cole close enough to kill our sailors and critically damage the ship.

It was Zinni's decision to have the USS COle refuel at Aden, against all better judgement. he put that ship in danger, practically left it defenselss in that terrorist hellhole and then prevented any respectable retaliation. Zinni's had his head up his butt for years.

[cookcounty]

Zinni and Clancy were on the PBS Charlie Rose Show last night. I tuned in shortly after the interview began and watched for a half hour. Clancy literally never said anything at all, didn't even clear his throat, itting there like a bored valet. Zinni's beef is against Rumsfeld, "the civilian leadership" at Defense and the intel community. He said we should have worked even longer with the UN (though Charlie did not ask how many Security Council resolutions beyond the 17 we had would be sufficient to get the job done. ).

Being a nice man, Rose did not ask Zinni why he sent those 17 sailors aboard the Cole into an indefensible position in the terrorist-infested Yemeni port of Aden.

[Just mythoughts]

One more of Hillry's generals.

[Dave S]

So, it appears that Gen. Zinni and CENTCOM had become very proficient at troop withdrawals, disaster relief, and shooting cruise missiles at empty tents

Why is this Zinni's doing? Seem like you are the bigot! Do you really think Clinton would have ordered anything different. The Commander in Chief decides what military actions are taken. Gen Zinni may have offered advice but you have no way of knowing what his advice was because it remains confidential and covered by executive privilege. BTW, more of the advice would have come from the Pentagon, not CENTCOM. That level decides how to execute the commands, not what the commands should be. That is like blaming General Tommy Franks for deciding to invade Iraq.

[johnny7]

One thing for certain is Zinni doesn't care for 'neocon' Jews... American or Israeli.

[b4its2late]

Zinni would be a perfect fit in John F'n Kerry's Joint Chiefs.....

[SiliconValleyGuy]

I knew that most of our worst enemies are inside our own borders. I didn't realize that some of them are (were) high up in our own military.

[MizSterious]

"know the enemy" ping!

[spodefly]

BTTT

[SuziQ]

Formed in 1973 as a project of the tax-exempt Fund for Peace(FFP). CDI and its sister FFP projects - the Center for National Security Studies(CNSS) and the Center for International Policy(CIP) - are spin-offs from projects initiated by the Institute for Policy Studies(IPS), the Washington-based , internationally active revolutionary think-tank.

I'd be curious to know if the Venona documents mention any of these groups as being funded by the Soviet Union during its time of pushing the 'peace movement' in the 70s and 80s.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[bethelgrad]

As a former Marine who served under Gen. Zinni, I am terribly disapointed. I am even more disapointed that Clancy is associated with him now.

[VaBthang4]

Zinni smacks of another bitter Loserdopian type.
Incompetent = Out of the loop [See: Power & Influence] = Bitter.

Tale as old as time.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this.

If al Querry is elected as president, al Zinni will probably be his Secretary of Defense.

[Grampa Dave]

One of the interesting aspects of the USS Cole bombing that was hiden by the mainstream mediots was the connection of Occidental Petroleum to the unnecessary refueling of the Cole in Yemen.

Who was Vice President at that time? What VP at that time and his father as a US Senator had a long $ relationship with Oxy Pete.

The link below will take you to some interesting articles re Oxy Pete owning the refueling center in Yemen where the USS Cole was bombed.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?x=op&va=USS+Cole+Occidental+Petroleum+Yemen&va_vt=any&vst=0&vd=all&fl=0&vf=all&ei=ISO-8859-1&vm=p&n=20