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Zinni is talking about a group of policymakers within the administration known as "the neo-conservatives"

Zinni is (plainly) content to accept CBS' bald and unequivocal recounting of what was stated to them, in whatever footage didn't make final cut.

Bottom line: Zinni doesn't contest it...? Zinni either SAID it... or ENDORSES it.

And it's increasingly desperate attempts to wriggle away from this simple, real world assessment which most readily qualify, plainly, as "idiotic."

Zinni doesn't contest it...?

So what? I doubt he had a hand in the final editing.

Besides, that's not even relevant to my main point, which is as follows. Zinni primarily targeted Rumsfeld, who's not Jewish as far as I know. This thread is all about how Zinni is an anti-semite because on 60 Minutes he targeted nobody but Jews. Obviously that's just not true, as anyone who watches the 60 minutes clip can verify.

Bottom line: Zinni doesn't contest it...? Zinni either SAID it... or ENDORSES it.

So what?

Well, here on this planet -- as opposed to, say, Bizarro-Earth -- implicit endorsement of bigotry is not normally considered any more admirable or defensible than explicit endorsement of same; simply the more cowardly option, is all. I'm sure I don't know how it's done in more eastern (or far eastern) climes, of course.

This thread is all about how Zinni is an anti-semite because on 60 Minutes he targeted nobody but Jews

Wildly incorrect. This thread is "about" Zinni's stated selecting (as per the U-N-C-O-N-T-E-S-T-E-D 60 Minutes piece), solely and specifically, of J-E-W-I-S-H individuals as operating under the penumbra of some shadowy, nebulous "conspiracy" actively against America's best interests.

Really: all of this yowling and wriggling on the part of Zinni's increasingly wild-eyed defenders is simply ludicrous, in the final analysis. Their (your) entire "argument," charitably, seems to boil down to: "... they didn't actually sjow THAT part of the tape, so it never really happened!" Nyaahh, nyaahh!"

Again, and finally: unless and until Zinni publicly disavows the 60M re-stating of his views, during said interview -- all you're doing, ultimately, is arm-waving, frantically, and hoping that others will mistake frenzy of motion for cogency of rebuttal.

Sadly: it ain't working.