Sanchez Blasts Post-War Actions

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Sanchez Blasts Post-War Actions
May 05, 2008
Military.com|by Bryant Jordan
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the senior commander on the ground in Iraq ago after the administration announced the end to major hostilities there five years ago, says post-war actions taken by the Bush administration resulted in the wounding and killing of American troops and "amount to gross incompetence and dereliction of duty."

Sanchez, in a new book being excerpted by Time magazine, said the Pentagon had but never implemented a 12- to 18-month plan that could have helped stabilize Iraq after Saddam Hussein's forces were defeated. Instead, it buried the plan, officially ended major hostilities, and permitted the Central Command staff that had overseen the war to walk away, he writes in Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story.

Sanchez also says in his book that his expected promotion to general went down to tubes over the Abu Ghraib scandal. During a 2006 meeting with then Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld in Washington, he claims Rumsfeld apologized that the "promotion didn't work out."

Although the only people convicted of any offenses connected with the torture and abuse that went on at the Abu Ghraib prison were lower level enlisted people, Sanchez was tainted by the scandal.

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General tells of shift in Fallujah strategy

Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez joined the White House videoconference on the second day of house-to-house fighting between 2,000 Marines and entrenched guerrillas in Fallujah.


Crafted in Washington as a brass-knuckles response to the gruesome deaths of four Blackwater security guards killed the week before and strung up on a bridge, the battle had the full support of President Bush.

Sanchez, in a memoir to be released Tuesday, said Bush “launched into what I considered a kind of confused pep talk” about the battle for Fallujah and an upcoming campaign to kill or capture radical anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and cripple his militia.

“Kick ass!” Bush said. “If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek them out and kill them! We must be tougher than hell!”

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[Solly Mack]

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Everybody is writing books....everybody is blaming everybody else

fuck.them.all.

[bemildred]

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