Voice of Military Integrity
Anthony Zinni is the former head of US Central Command, from 1997-2000. This is what he told 60 Minutes tonight about the planning and performance of this Iraq War:

"I think there was dereliction in insufficient forces being put on the ground and (in not) fully understanding the military dimensions of the plan. If you're the secretary of defense and you're responsible for that. If you're responsible for that planning and that execution on the ground. If you've assumed responsibility for the other elements, non-military, non-security, political, economic, social and everything else, then you bear responsibility,
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Certainly those in your ranks that foisted this strategy on us that is flawed. Certainly they ought to be gone and replaced...If I were the commander of a military organization that delivered this kind of performance to the president, I certainly would tender my resignation. I certainly would expect to be gone..."

There is a new kind of cover-up infecting this scandal of a War: one based in total, absolute denial, both of respsonsibility, and of even the slightest acknowledgement that the plan has failed. It will take more experienced voices like Zinni's, telling the truth, to undo this cover-up by making its claim to fact roundly and convincingly ridiculed. That so many are willing to perpetuate the myth that the plan is working, and progress is being made, makes this cover-up a blight on our nation's history. The plan and rationale for this War were both mistakes, but the insistence on "staying the course" to cover their own back-sides is shameful.

If his new statements stick and make any news, look for Zinni to receive the Bush/Rove attack treatment. We'll hear of his political leanings, his sketchy abilities in his former position, etc. I say: more like Zinni please.