Gen. Zinni: no solid proof Saddam had WMD
General Anthony Zinni, US Marine Corp, (ret.) served for forty years before he retired in 2000.
Zinni recently appeared on Meet the Press.
From the transcript:
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Zinni: …I heard the case being built to go to war right away- I was hearing a depiction of the intelligence that didn’t fit what I knew. There was no solid proof that I ever saw that Saddam had WMD….
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ZINNI: I saw the - what this town is known for, spin, cherry-picking facts, using metaphors to evoke certain emotional responses or shading the context. We know the mushroom clouds and the other things that were all described that the media has covered well. I saw on the ground a sort of walking away from 10 years’ worth of planning. You know, ever since the end of the first Gulf War, there’s been planning by serious officers and planners and others, and policies put in place - 10 years’ worth of planning were thrown away. Troop levels dismissed out of hand. Gen. Shinseki basically insulted for speaking the truth and giving an honest opinion.
[via Robot Wisdom]