Posted on 02/04/2009 6:39:14 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham
General Zinni gets undiplomatic treatment from Obama team
Wed, 02/04/2009 - 5:22pm
When retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni told the Washington Times today that he was offered the job of U.S. ambassador to Iraq before being passed over in favor of diplomat Christopher Hill, he did not say that one of the outrages of the experience was that his friend of 30 years, fellow former Marine Corps commandant and now national security advisor James L. Jones had offered him the job, and then failed to tell him when the decision was changed.
"Jones had called me before the inauguration and asked if I would be willing to serve as ambassador to Iraq or in one of the envoy jobs, on the Middle East peace process," Zinni told Foreign Policy. "I said yes."
"Then two weeks ago, Jones called," Zinni continued, "and said, ‘We talked to the secretary of state, and everybody would like to offer you the Iraq job.' I said yes.
"The president called and congratulated me," Zinni said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecable.foreignpolicy.com ...
‘Jones asked him if he would like to be ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Zinni said. “I said, ‘You can stick that with whatever other offers,’” Zinni recalled, saying he had used more colorful language with Jones. Asked Jones’s response and if he was apologetic, Zinni said, “Jones was not too concerned. He laughed about it.”’
Any Marine that links up with the left is bound to be disappointed, passed over, and generally become po’d.
What irony! Zinni was one of the guys recruited by Obama to give him some cover on Iraq and also as a believeale CIC.
Thanks General, it’s been real but you know I’m the hope and change candidate so I hope you realize I changed my mind.
And these are the guys who think they can negotiate and reason their way to peace with terrorists.....
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
What can you expct when you are dealing with crooks?
The fact that Zinni would have had to disclose his financial links to the Saudis might have been a bridge too far for the battered Obama vetting team.
Karma is a bitch General.
Leni
Actually, Zinni would have been a good pick for Iraq. Hill? Apart from generating mountains of ‘agreements’ with Pyongyang, what does Hill bring to the table?
General Zinni’s Failed Policies
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/general-zinnis-failed-policies/
May 24, 2004
Searching for another Bush critic to put on national television, 60 Minutes on May 23 featured retired General Anthony Zinni
On the night before President Bush’s speech to the nation on Iraq, Kroft featured Zinni’s sensational charge that the Pentagon officials who planned and executed the war in Iraq were guilty of dereliction of duty, incompetence, negligence, lying and corruption. But Zinni’s record is notable for leaving both Saddam Hussein in power and Osama bin Laden alive. He was the commanding general in “Operation Desert Fox,” a 1998 bombing campaign against Iraq that took place less than 24 hours before the scheduled start of House of Representatives impeachment proceedings of Clinton over his perjury and witness tampering related to the Lewinsky scandal. Zinni also defended Clinton’s ineffective 1998 attack on Osama bin Laden’s camps in Afghanistan, widely seen as another attempt to deflect attention from the Lewinsky scandal. Zinni himself admitted the strikes didn’t cause any significant damage, and he was quoted as saying that getting bin Laden was never one of his objectives. Zinni was appointed by Secretary of State Colin Powell as a special envoy to bring peace to the Middle East. His efforts produced no peace, and he left this post about one year later.
Zinni recommends Obama to engage with Hamas
Dec. 30, 2008
If Obama would find a way to screw McPeak as well, I might start liking the Big O!
Just let that scuzball crawl back under the rock where he came from.
I was talking about McBase, btw.
As for Ø...let's not go too far!
“Zinni was one of the guys recruited by obama to give him some cover”
Here comes that darned bus again. LOL
It’s clear that the guy who’s actually running the White House (is it Soros?) didn’t like Zinni.
Another one thrown under the bus.
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