21 May 2004

At minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incompetence and corruption

General Zinni appears on CBS 60 Minutes this weekend to share his thoughts on the Iraq invasion.
"There has been poor strategic thinking in this...poor operational planning and execution on the ground," says Zinni, who served as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Central Command from 1997 to 2000.

Zinni blames the poor planning on the civilian policymakers in the administration, known as neo-conservatives, who saw the invasion as a way to stabilize the region and support Israel. He believes these people, who include Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, the undersecretary of defense, have hijacked U.S. foreign policy. In his upcoming book, "Battle Ready," written with Tom Clancy, Zinni writes of the poor planning in harsh terms. "In the lead-up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw, at minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incompetence and corruption," he writes.

A bad day for the neoconservative faithful, as there's this story regarding charges of selected puppet Chalabi leaking secrets to Iran...

More info on Chalabi here in this article by Andrew Cockburn...

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