[Mulder]

Zinni has already provided more than ample reason to label him, with a fair degree of assurance, as a contemptible, opportunistic and mealy-mouthed bigot

And Bush appointed this "bigot" as special envoy to the Middle East.

So does that make Bush a bigot also?

Or is he simply incompetent?

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

And Bush appointed this "bigot" as special envoy to the Middle East.

So does that make Bush a bigot also?

Or is he simply incompetent?

Evidently, you've abandoned the failed, "X-Files"-ish Shadowy Conspiracy To Edit Zinni's Published Words Worldwide gambit. Good. Can't really blame you on that score.

Big Concept Time, now. Pay attention: perhaps -- just perhaps, mind -- Zinni hadn't made any openly anti-Semitic utterances GWB had opportunity to find out about, prior to this latest noxious series of same. Maybe -- and I sense this is an argument you'll be eager enough to accept -- Bush erred, in picking what turned out to be a demonstrably inferior man, morally, ethically and intellectually.

You'll have scant success, I'll wager, in convincing others hereabouts that Bush -- like Zinni -- is a (now un-closeted) bigot. In both cases: the words and deeds of BOTH men ring clearly, carillion-like, for themselves. Nice try, though.

[AmishDude]

And Bush appointed demoted this "bigot" as special envoy bureaucratic nobody to the Middle East.