Posted on 06/11/2008 8:11:59 AM PDT by PurpleMan
"Mike Allen of Politico.com just told me that indeed retired USMC General Anthony Zinni is near the top of the Obama list,..."
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Non-DevilDogs are dying to know.
The Hillaryites will walk.
He’s been against the war from the get-go.
I think he’s single... aren’t VPs supposed to be married?
I must have missed that in the Constitution. ;-)
He will be a traitor to the corp if he does this.
Any military sort on Obama Mamma’s ticket would not be an Eisenhower or Omar Bradley for sure........perhaps Pee Wee Herman in a marching band uniform.......The Great OZ Has Spoken
“aren’t VPs supposed to be married”
General Zinni is married to the former Debbie Bathke. They have three children: Lisa, Maria, and Anthony.
Besides(1): Who cares? Th Constitution doesn’t require it.
Besides(2) Sure sounds like a veiled accusation that Zinni is actually...uh oh...gay.
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/zinni.html
The country that started this, Iran, is about to turn around, 180 degrees. We ought to be focused on that. The father of extremism, the home of the ayatollah -- the young people are ready to throw out the mullahs and turn around, become a secular society and throw off these ideas of extremism. That is more important and critical. They're the ones that funded Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations. That ought to be a focus. And I can give you many, many more before you get down to Saddam and Iraq.
Our friends in the region who, a couple years ago, every time we wanted to throw a bomb at Saddam, kept saying, "Why don't you get serious? We'll support you if you take him out. But if you're only going to piss him off and let him rise from the ashes, we don't want to do it."
Now that we want to do it, it's the wrong time. He'll drag Israel into the war. The mood on the street is very hostile at this moment. It is the wrong time. You could create a backlash to regimes that are friendly to us. You could create a sense of anti-Arab, anti-Islamic feelings from the West (among people who) misinterpret the attack.
This is BHO’s “Kobayashi Maru” (and he’s no James T. Kirk!). Doesn’t have the military/foreign policy experience. If he nominates a retired General to bring that experience to the ticket, he’s admitting his weakness/McCain’s strength.
Don't think. Zinni is married to the former Debbie Bathke and they are the parents of three children; two daughters and a son.
Zinni is a ninni.
Zinni was on the board of one of those investment funds that preyed on junior military.
They sold invest funds with huge commissions..with privileges of doing business on bases. These funds have been investigated by congress and found to be predatory rip offs. The military people could do the same thing with Schwab or Etrade..whatever and pay zero commissions.
Zinni gave them his name..he wasn’t smart enough to know that it would come back to bite him.
I think there are some lawsuits against the company.
“If he nominates a retired General to bring that experience to the ticket, he’s admitting his weakness/McCain’s strength.”
Or he’s reaching out to the disaffected military voters (1,133,500 of whom have served in IOF/IEF)
Zinni reminds me of James Stockdale (Perot VP). Way past his prime...
If Stockdale was way past his prime, what does that say about McCain? He is only 13 years older. When Stockdale ran as Perot’s VP he was younger than McCain is today.
Can’t see it...
This guy isn’t pulling troops out of Iraq and the antiwar moonbats will have none of it.
http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2007/11/iraq-war-anthony-zinni.html
MJ: You hear the Democratic candidates talking about withdrawal, but they don’t give timetables.
AZ: Yeah, but that’s politics. Either it’s based on political appeal or it’s based on naiveté. We’re not going to withdraw from the region. To pull out of Iraq would say we are inviting you to set up a sanctuary and a base of operations. The first time Al Qaeda in Iraq blows up our embassy in Amman, Jordan, guess what? We’re back in. The first time the Iranian influence becomes so great that they begin to incite and meddle with the Shiites and start causing problems, guess what? We’re gonna be back in.
We have to take a stand, and we have to ensure our interests are protected; they’re too important and they reverberate around the globe. Responsible political leaders back here understand that you can’t extract yourself totally from the region. You know, we haven’t left anywhere and come home since the beginning of World War II. We don’t come home anymore. We’re still in South Korea. We’re still in Germany. We’re still in Japan. We’re still all over the world.
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