“Gen. Anthony Zinni, who was Gen. Tommy Franks’s predecessor as commander of U.S. CENTCOM [Central Command], believes that Saddam posed little threat. ‘We bombed him almost at will,’ he said in a [May 26] 2004 speech to the Center for Defense Information. ‘No one in the region felt threatened by Saddam. …So to say that containment didn’t work, I think is not only wrong…but the proof is in the pudding, in what kind of [Iraqi] military our troops faced when we went in there. It disintegrated in front of us.’ ”
– Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Page 78