Speaking of the “capture” theory, Daniel McCarthy sends in this item from the print version of National Review<\/i>, Jan. 26 issue:<\/p>\n
Former Marine Corps general Anthony C. Zinni is a critic of the Iraq war.
\nSaddam Hussein “was contained,” Zinni told the Washington Post in a recent
\ninterview. “He had a deteriorated military. He wasn’t a threat to the
\nregion.” That is a view – a wrong one. But Zinni, who thinks it both right
\nand obvious, must then explain why the Bush administration does not espouse
\nit. “The more I saw, the more I thought that this was the product of the
\nneocons who didn’t understand the region . . . Somehow, the neocons captured
\nthe president. They captured the vice president.” But George W. Bush
\nidentified Iraq, along with Iran and North Korea, as a dangerous rogue state
\nwhen he was campaigning for office in 1999 (then he thought their missile
\nprograms would be threats). So why does Zinni think Bush was “captured”?
\nCould it be because Bush and Cheney are Chr******s, while neocons are J**s?
\nIs Zinni d**b, or worse?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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