skippy the bush kangaroo: zinni, zidi, zici

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

zinni, zidi, zici

left i on the news examines gen. zinni's refusal to speak up at the beginning of the war, considering how happy he is to refuse responsibility for how bad things are going now:

all very interesting. and gen. zinni was, in fact, arguing against invasion at the time. for example, in a nicholas kristof column in the new york times on feb. 7, 2003…we read: "in an october [2002] speech to the middle east institute, he added, '[if] we intend to solve this through violent action, we're on the wrong course. first of all, i don't see that that's necessary [ed. note: legality having nothing to do with it, evidently]. second of all, i think that war and violence are a very last resort.'" so he was opposed to war, not on principle exactly, but as a practical matter. it wasn't "necessary." but did general zinni, who is now perfectly willing to tell tim russert that there was no solid proof that "saddam" had wmd, say so publicly before the invasion? when scott ritter spoke before the invasion about how any residual wmd that might be hiding in some corner in iraq would have been long-since degraded, did general zinni back him up? the answer to both of those questions, as far as i can tell, is "no."

posted by skippy at 12:16 AM |