[Destro]

Bashing Bush admin policy it seems not the President directly.

[Destro]

I can't believe what I am seeing and hearing.

[Sparta]

Zinni came out against the war before it began.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Is this the General Zinni with the mini?

[browardchad]

He's an Arabist.

"...we need to quit making enemies we don't need to make enemies out of. And we need to fix those relationships. There's a deep chasm growing between that part of the world and our part of the world. And it's strange, about a month after 9/11, they were sympathetic and compassionate toward us. How did it happen over the last year? And we need to look at that -- that is a higher priority." Zinni, 2002.

Feel the love!

[kabar]

Question: Why did Powell bring this guy into the State Department to act as a Middle East envoy? He is another CINC that acted as a proconsul and had delusions of grandeur. These guys need to be taken down a peg.

[GeorgeWBiscuit]

I think it is no mystery. Zinni was probably expecting a big cushy important job somewhere and didn't get what he wanted. Now he could go on with his life and do something productive, where he would get no attention and maybe do some good for the world, or he could be a complete crybaby prick and badmouth the President, ensuring he would get the attention he so dearly craves. Remember, these people are lifelong bureaucrats, used to fawning attention from their subordinates. Once this is taken away, they find a new place to get their attention fix. It's so simple.

[HitmanLV]

Who let him out of the Phantom Zone? This looks like a job for...

[Lion Den Dan]

Another Klintoon General twit.