Anthony C. Zinni Zitate

“Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict,” … “we still have not created the state we promised them. On the contrary, our costly and valiant efforts have produced an outcome our government did not predict or intend—a failed state spinning out of control into anarchy and civil war.”

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Anthony Zinni

Pages 227-228 of The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose, ISBN 978-1403971746 (released in March 2006)
The Battle for Peace

“Nearly four years after our country invaded and occupied Iraq, Americans are facing the painful truth that our nation has failed to achieve the Bush administration’s ambitious goals for that tragic land.”

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Anthony Zinni

The Battle for Peace

“I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do; because I mentioned the Neo-Conservatives who describe themselves as Neo-Conservatives, I was called, Anti-Semitic.”

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Anthony Zinni

interview on the 60 Minutes, 21 May 2004

“The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.”

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Anthony Zinni

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18094428/page/2/

“We promised the Iraqi people freedom, democracy, security and a new and far better life.”

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Anthony Zinni

The Battle for Peace