Yet another high-profile American personality has publicly blamed the US war in Iraq on the Jews. Interestingly enough, retired general Anthony Zinni was, until recently, US President Bush’s Middle East special envoy. This of course alarmed many in Israel, as Israel had at one pointed accepted an Oslo-style diplomatic initiative authored by the former general.
Zinni, one of America's most revered ex-generals, told CBS News' “60 Minutes” program that the war in Iraq was being fought for Israel's benefit – seconding a similar claim voiced on the floor of the US Senate by Senator Ernest Hollings (Dem.) from South Carolina.
General (ret.) Zinni told the host of 60 Minutes that the ‘neo-conservatives’ (a buzzword for influential Jewish supporters of the war on terror) role in pushing the war for Israel's benefit was "the worst-kept secret in Washington." Zinni went on to claim that ‘neo-conservatives’ had sold Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on a plan to democratize the Middle East.
Only three days before Zinni's interview was broadcast, Senator Hollings defended his original claim – that Bush sent the country to war in order to win Jewish votes and protect Israel after consulting with Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith and Richard Perle, the former chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board – from the Senate floor.
Zinni, as well as Hollings insisted that they were being "labeled anti-Semitic" without justification for referring to a cabal of Bush's “neo-conservative” advisers.
Zinni, one of America's most revered ex-generals, told CBS News' “60 Minutes” program that the war in Iraq was being fought for Israel's benefit – seconding a similar claim voiced on the floor of the US Senate by Senator Ernest Hollings (Dem.) from South Carolina.
General (ret.) Zinni told the host of 60 Minutes that the ‘neo-conservatives’ (a buzzword for influential Jewish supporters of the war on terror) role in pushing the war for Israel's benefit was "the worst-kept secret in Washington." Zinni went on to claim that ‘neo-conservatives’ had sold Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on a plan to democratize the Middle East.
Only three days before Zinni's interview was broadcast, Senator Hollings defended his original claim – that Bush sent the country to war in order to win Jewish votes and protect Israel after consulting with Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith and Richard Perle, the former chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board – from the Senate floor.
Zinni, as well as Hollings insisted that they were being "labeled anti-Semitic" without justification for referring to a cabal of Bush's “neo-conservative” advisers.