Talk:Anthony Zinni

message: "enjoyed native desserts, including puppies and bananas"?!!!
It says he was born in 1947 and graduated college in 1965?  is that right?RonMexico 12:22, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: Zinni's call for more troops is moot, there were no more troops. Odd he had such a wonderful plan without planning to have the troops in place. Rumsfeld, overtactfully in my opinion, repeats "You have to fight with the army you have." A prompt response was necesssary to fulfil the Islamic requirement for honor. Non-combat deaths increase with the number of troops. More troops increase Islamic resentment.
Reinstating the draft would have  been politically impossible. Even if it were possible, it would have taken 6-12 months to train grunts and 2-5 years to train officers and NCOs. In other words we would be starting to invade today. Bush would have never been reelected, and the Albright/Carter wing of diplomacy would be duplicating Carter's Nobel-winning success in Palestine. Planning should have started with the WTC bombing in 1993, if not much sooner. Zinni is guilty of more fuzzy liberal thinking, just like the others. --Tobyw 14:08, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: More Troops?

message: The external link to General Zinni's retirement speech (http://www.rcaca.org/News-Zinni.htm) is broken. (I guess the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps Association reorganised their website ...). I found a copy of the speech at http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7335, but that's a forum posting. Does anyone have a better link? Is it OK to link to the forum posting? Or should we just delete the link entirely? CWC(talk) 12:48, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Link to Zinni's farewell speech

message: This page is in desperate need of references... particularly around the areas where he's being quoted and the criticism of the war in Iraq.  Also, the refs need to be cleaned up.Balloonman 02:46, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Why? That would spoil the agenda. Just as pointing out the discrepancy between his "10 criticisms" and his 2000 testimony to Congress would spoil the agenda. POV.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.64.143.254 (talk) 22:00, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: He is an independent.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.77.229.128 (talk) 03:38, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Politics

message: The section opinion on Iraq war did not provide a single reference, just saying his comments were "widely reported". I think reliable sourcing is particularly called for since many of these statements are in direct conflict with his testimony before Congress in 2000. If direct sourcing of these quotes can be found it can be re-entered, possibly in a section detailing the bizarre contradictions of public statements by Zinni. Batvette (talk) 07:08, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
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message: I am wife of Edward Charles Zinni and daughter-in-law of Anthony Zinni in Wichita a falls,TX. I have the book, Battle Ready. I would love you to sign it.  Bevnesbitt@yahoo.com BeverlyZinni (talk) 00:10, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
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