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Rumsfeld Critic Zinni: USS Cole Blunder My Fault
NewsMax.com ^ | April 18, 2006 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 04/18/2006 10:38:57 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax

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To: RetiredArmy

Flav missed the sarcasm tag on your original post and started screaming about Posse Comitatus instead.

I was stickin' up for ya!


81 posted on 04/19/2006 9:52:37 AM PDT by GatorGirl
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To: RetiredArmy

Flav missed the sarcasm tag on your original post and started screaming about Posse Comitatus instead.

I was stickin' up for ya!


82 posted on 04/19/2006 9:52:43 AM PDT by GatorGirl
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To: GatorGirl

Oh, my bad. Sorry. No harm intended. Forgive please? Tanks! :) RA


83 posted on 04/19/2006 9:58:57 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Politicians are in it for themselves, to get reelected, to benefit them, not we the people.)
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To: Carl/NewsMax
he made the disastrous decision to have the U.S.S. Cole use the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling, where the ship was blown up by al Qaeda terrorists.

Worse still, at least one report indicates that Gen. Zinni may have played a role in an August 1998 leak that tipped off Osama bin Laden to an impending U.S. cruise missile attack - allowing the top terrorist to escape.

If he hadn't had the rank of General, most likely he would've been Court Martialed for Dereliction of Duty. Perhaps charges can still be brought against him.

84 posted on 04/19/2006 10:13:18 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Former SAC Trained Killer)
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To: GatorGirl

I must have forgotten my own sarc tag but as usual I thought it was so over the top no one would be fooled. Have our troops picking up trash in Tehran to appease Amedine-jihad? Come'on GG.


85 posted on 04/19/2006 11:37:09 AM PDT by Flavius Josephus (Nationalism is not a crime.)
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To: Flavius Josephus

My apologies. Although with some of the stuff I've seen lately on FR I must need that tag!


86 posted on 04/19/2006 5:42:40 PM PDT by GatorGirl
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To: TexasCajun

US Military called off the OBL strike BECAUSE a UAE prince was falcon hunting with OBL....we didn't tip off UAE about the strike.

This was a separate strike that actully went through. But Zinni is a bone-head for leaking it...another perfumed prince politico of the pentagon and not a real fighter. The same bone-heads tied the hands of military planners for the Iran hostage rescue...hands tied meant dead troops and failed mission.

As I recall, GEN Clarke had nothing to do with CENTCOM (Central Command) or CENTCOM missions (i.e. OBL strike decision making). Clarke was EUCOM (European Command) Commander during Clinton's reign. These are separate combatant commands in the US military structure.


87 posted on 04/19/2006 8:41:27 PM PDT by macw (Missing Bin Laden)
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I was referring to Dick Clarke, one of Slicks's CIA analyst(now ABC analyst), not Weasally Clark.

Two peas in a pod though.

The Presidential Slacker would risk the wrath of Hillary, but was too scared to take any substitutive action on any of the number of terrorist attacks during his administration.

88 posted on 04/20/2006 6:51:16 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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