Zinni slams Jewish Pentagon officials

Jerusalem Post ^ | 5-24-04

[sarasmom]

Lots of people who have buried their associates harbor major heartburn over Israels fanatical love for anti-USA spies like J.Pollard.
Israel is not the USA.
Israel is only loosely allied with the USA,and only when it serves their purpose.
Israel would sell the USA out in less time than it takes a heart to beat, if they perceived a better option, elsewhere.
I personally think Zinni is wrong, in his summation.
But that I think that way is despite Israel, not because of any great faith in Israeli protestations of firm alliance with the USA.

Israel can't be anyone's allie,since Israel doesn't even allie with the majority of Israelis.

[CWOJackson]

Read #5. Zinni didn't want to take action against the terrorists who murdered our Cole sailors, that he had made sitting ducks.

"Cohen also noted that General Anthony Zinni, then head of CENTCOM, was concerned that a major bombing campaign would cause domestic unrest in Pakistan (where bin Laden enjoyed strong support among extremists) and hurt the U.S. military's relationship with that nation."

Zinni didn't want to offend Muslim Pakistan.

[CWOJackson]

What! And offend his Pakistani Muslim friends?

[TADSLOS]

The State Department Arabists curry combed Zinni's tail feathers under Clinton, then they got cut off under Bush- for good reason.

[CWOJackson]

Way to go Sean...nail Madeline Halfbrights pet generals arse to the wall.

[justanotherday]

"It's just another event that proves the Republican Party to be the true friend of Israel, and the Democrats to be out of their hateful freaking minds."

So, do you believe this will swing the Jewish vote to the Republcans in November? Just curious...

[Tailgunner Joe]

"...how we're viewed in this region is not an entity that's promising positive change. We are now being viewed as the modern crusaders, as the modern colonial power in that part of the world."

Waaaah. Why do they hate us?

This is apparently how Zinni "views" us too.

The rest of the world had better start worrying about what we think of them.

"I think the American people were conned into this," he says. Referring to the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which the Johnson administration claimed that U.S. Navy ships had been subjected to an unprovoked attack by North Vietnam, he says, "The Gulf of Tonkin and the case for WMD and terrorism is synonymous in my mind."

Likewise, he says, the goal of transforming the Middle East by imposing democracy by force reminds him of the "domino theory" in the 1960s that the United States had to win in Vietnam to prevent the rest of Southeast Asia from falling into communist hands.

And that brings him back to Wolfowitz and his neoconservative allies as the root of the problem. "I don't know where the neocons came from -- that wasn't the platform they ran on," he says. "Somehow, the neocons captured the president. They captured the vice president." - SOURCE FR thread

[John Lenin]

It was like watching the air let out of a balloon. I hope Chalabi has Zinnis name on a Saddam oil contract.

[Shermy]

Perle is the one guy whose presence in the U.S. Department of Defense has been an enormous albatross around the neck of this administration.

He's long gone.

He's actually the only person in the list of usual suspect who actually was a "neo con" in the 1980's.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

That's it Tony. Just keep driving the Jewish vote to the Bush column. Keep it up.

Bush Gains with Jewish Vote (The Inevitable Legacy of Cynthia McKinney, Fritz Hollings, etcetera...)

[Shermy]

I hope Chalabi has Zinnis name on a Saddam oil contract.

Who's he working for now? Saudi think tank?

He might not know that he was selectively naming the Jewish people in the admin - just fed the line.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

As a youngster during WWII and the Jewish Solution, I cannot imagine anyone in MY COUNTRY in 2004 being antisemitic, much less wearing such sentiments as a badge of Honor. It is evil and disgusting and beyond reprehension. I am shocked and sickened by American antisemitism! It has no place here or anywhere else, especially here!

[Slings and Arrows]

Based on the events of the past few days, I have come to the following conclusions:

1: The Dhimmicrats have decided to go after the Arab vote by attacking Jews.

2: Zinni isplanning to enter politics as a Dhimmicrat.

Scum.

[Alberta's Child]

He's long gone.

He's not gone enough, obviously. They should deport that bastard -- I have a lot of minor complaints about the Bush administration, but the role of Richard Perle in the U.S. government is the one issue that constitutes a legitimate grounds for impeachment, in my mind.

He's actually the only person in the list of usual suspect who actually was a "neo con" in the 1980's.

That's interesting . . . How are you defining the term "neo-con?"

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

The Dhimmicrats

LOL! What a fantastic phrase! May I steal it, please...? :)

[CWOJackson]

Scum? He's the latest darling of the liberal left and our own defeatist freepers...they've been quoting him and singing his praises for several days.

[John Lenin]

Chalabi was no dummy, that info is in the right hands, I'm sure they probably already figured it out too. Clinton had interns, Bush has oil-for-food docs.

[Slings and Arrows]

LOL! What a fantastic phrase! May I steal it, please...? :)

I can't believe I'm the first to think of it, but in this unlikely event use it with my blessing.

[af_vet_1981]

Zinni specifically aimed Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, Former Defense Policy Board member Richard Perle, National Security Council member Eliot Abrams, and Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby - a group of policymakers within the administration known as "the neo-conservatives" whom he claims saw the invasion of Iraq as a way to stabilize American interests in the region and strengthen the position of Israel. "I think it's the worst kept secret in Washington. That everybody - everybody I talk to in Washington - has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do," says Zinni. "Because I mentioned the neo-conservatives, who describe themselves as neo-conservatives, I was called anti-Semitic. I mean, it's unbelievable that that's the kind of personal attacks that are run when you criticize a strategy and those who propose it. I certainly didn't criticize who they were. I certainly don't know what their ethnic religious backgrounds are. And I'm not interested."

Zinni is a poor liar. He has chosen to be an enemy of the United States government while we are at war because of his Arabist affections.

[jnarcus]

And now we know where Zinni really stands...what a maroon