Zinni: Rumsfeld is a Crock

The San Deigo Union-Tribune reports on the thoughts of former Marine General Anthony Zinni:

Zinni said the United States must now rely on the U.N. to pull its "chestnuts out of the fire in Iraq."

"We're betting on the U.N., who we blew off and ridiculed during the run-up to the war," Zinni said. "Now we're back with hat in hand. It would be funny if not for the lives lost." ...

"I spent two years in Vietnam, and I've seen this movie before," he said.

Of course, Iraq is NOTHING like Vietnam. It's a desert, not a jungle. I guess Zinni is just ANOTHER person who doesn't understand that Dubya DOESN'T make mistakes--why, Mr. pRez told us that himself Tuesday night.

And, while this is slightly off topic, I was listening to NPR while on my lunch break. Some reporter from the St. Louis Post Dispatch was speaking from Iraq. He said Marines on the ground consider the situation to be nothing short of WAR. It's not mop up, it's not "a few disgruntled Baathists, it's every bit as significant as the combat in World War II, according to those in the field. As the reporter said, "They're literally fighting for their lives."

I guess they're wrong, too. After all, who knows best: a bunch of grunts on the ground, or the pResident and Mr. Rumsfeld in Washington?