Jay Garner: The US general waiting to replace
Saddam
'In 2000 General Garner went on what seems to have been a
routine 10-day freebie to Israel, organised by the
Jewish Institute for National Security
Affairs, an organisation striving "to inform the American
defence and foreign affairs community about the important role Israel can
and does play in bolstering democratic interests in the the Middle
East". To make matters worse, Garner then backed a
statement by the group praising the
Israeli Army for showing what it
called "remarkable restraint" when dealing with the Palestinian
uprising. "A strong Israel is an asset that American military
planners and political leaders can rely on," it said. Garner fans
say that the general does not share the extreme right-wing views of the
other arch hawks now running the
Pentagon - including
Perle,
Rumsfeld,
Paul Wolfowitz and
Dick Cheney, George Bush's
Vice-President. But many hold him guilty by association'
( Independent )
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See also this Reuters article from
Thursday, and this blog entry from
last weekend
