Posted on 12/31/2003 8:12:13 AM PST by Rennes Templar
Edited on 12/31/2003 8:50:26 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Former Central Command chief Anthony Zinni denounces `ideologues' in Bush administration
Anthony Zinni's opposition to U.S. policy on Iraq began on the monsoon-ridden afternoon of Nov. 3, 1970. He was lying on a Vietnamese mountainside west of Da Nang, three rounds from an AK-47 assault rifle in his side and back. He could feel his lifeblood seeping into the ground as he slipped in and out of consciousness.
He had plenty of time to think in the following months while recuperating in a military hospital in Hawaii. Among other things, he promised himself that, "If I'm ever in a position to say what I think is right, I will. . . . I don't care what happens to my career."
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It was utter insanity and demonstrated a gross callousness for the safety of this ship and it's crew.
They know we have many enemies who are actively defending the Axis of Evil and Islamic terrorists trying to kill millions of us. They know we have envious and ambitious rivals who want to topple Bush so they can take back the reins of power and are perfectly willing to play the stooge for the enemy.
Some of the war will be fought publicly and some of it privately. Fortunately we have a President now that understands the threat and will act before there is a mushroom cloud.
No Shite!
Yes it did, and what did we do to correct it?
Nothing. We hired lawyers!
GWB is a totally different president. he is taking this animal head on and is winning.
Though, likely we will be looking over our shoulder for a generation, we are not laying down and taking it on the chin.
This is a good thing.
Now, to your questioning of motives, you have all the information you need here in the archives.
Many of the relationships that you claim the administration has not made and should have made are in deed in evidence.
The fact that the admin has not publically made them is expained by the nature and type of evidence. The evidence, while actionable intel, is not the kind of thing that you can take to a court.
Fortunately for you and I, and our loved ones. Actionable intel is all we need. We do not fight our wars in the courts or in the court of public opinion.
We fired those lawyers when we got rid of Clinton.
Lawyers and courts will lose this war if we let them get involved.
We cannot give animals rights. All they will do will be to dirty the court room and kill the witnesses.(after they crap on the floor)
Due to Iraq's past and the absence of inspectors, some theorized that they could reconstitute what the inspector had removed within a years or so.
We had no Intel to prove or disprove the theory but we knew they were trying to get equipment for the purpose.
Saddam, on the other hand, went to North Korea on a shopping trip. Too bad the Koreans screwed him royal. {hehehe}
For one thing, a whole bunch of US ground troops were on their way to the region.
Iraq did not change, our military capabilities and assets changed.
Our knowledge that bombing from 40,000 ft changed.(after the total waste in Kosovo, because they did not hit squat except civillians and the Chinease embassy)
And they figuered they might be so they never pressed nukes as a main issue. It was a side concern and no intel to prove it.
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