Charlie Rose interview: Tom Clancy and General Zinni - "Iraq War was a mistake"

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http://www.mindspew.net/misc/crose.avi

More and more bush officials jumping ship. Even the republican pro-war icon, tom clancy, thinks the war was a mistake (although grudgingly).

Interesting take on zinni and clancy defecting:

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=wirzbicki052604

 

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I would hardly call Tom Clancy "Pro-War" thats a very poor label on a person. Just because he writes books on it doesn't mean that he is gung-hoo about war. Don't label the General or Tom Clancy defecting, they didnt leave anyone.

BTW - Repost.

 

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Originally posted by: Tabb
I would hardly call Tom Clancy "Pro-War" thats a very poor label on a person. Just because he writes books on it doesn't mean that he is gung-hoo about war. Don't label the General or Tom Clancy defecting, they didnt leave anyone.

BTW - Repost.

Clancy is definetely 'pro-war'. In fact, i would characterize him as pro-war as any washington neo-con hawk as you could imagine. The reason why i chose to make a new thread is because i had a video of the interview plus a link to a new perspective on someone as hawkish as clancy defecting.

 

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Tom Clancy? A Neo-Con? Okay.....

 

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Originally posted by: Tabb
Tom Clancy? A Neo-Con? Okay.....

Thanks for putting words into my mouth tabb. I didn't say he is a neo-con, i said 'he's as pro-war as any washington neo-con hawk'.

 

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I saw the interview of Zinni and Clancy on MSNBC. (?)

Clancy's a dreadful but popular writer and he is so bloody hawkish it's no wonder his "conversion" is being given air time. Zinni is a conservative Democrat, so I really don't think his views are that newsworthy.

Standing back from the partisan bickering, however, one would be hard pressed to make a positive case for the Iraq war. Bush's biggest political failure is the extent to which he has pushed his True Believers over the edge of reason and into insane and fanatical support for a bankrupt policy.

At least Clancy isn't one of them. Perhaps Clancy thinks Bush isn't so different from Muqtada el-Sadr?

-Robert