Hey Rush, is General Sanchez just another phony Soldier?
The article below is the harshest criticism we've heard yet of the Iraq war from a retired military General.
I wish when he realized the war was FUBAR (the day he took command in 2003), he had said something ... but, I do know that active duty Generals don't speak out against their CIC.
They are obligated to follow the CIC's dictates or have a coup ... which is treason. So let's not blame the military for what the administration is doing.
Sanchez said, "I think once you are retired, you have a responsibility to the nation, to your oath, to the country, to state your opinion."
That's why he waited until now.
Well, that, and he probably has a book coming out. He promised "more to follow later" and said he would make further public statements in which he names names.
And I'm sure he will name names ... he's probably still ticked because he was used as a political scapegoat for the administration's failed policy in response to Abu Ghraib.
Pass the popcorn.
From nytimes.com: WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq, the former top commander of American forces there called the Bush administration’s handling of the war “incompetent” and said the result was “a nightmare with no end in sight.”
Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, who retired in 2006 after being replaced in Iraq after the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, blamed the Bush administration for a “catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic war plan” and denounced the current addition of American forces as a “desperate” move that would not achieve long-term stability.[..]"
Since we invaded Iraq it has fallen into a multi-front civil war ... Sunni vs Shia, Shia vs Shia, the insurgency and multiple terrorist organizations are all fighting each other for control.
And guess what? We armed most of our enemies and they're using the very weapons we gave them to kill our own troops. Now it has gotten to the point where we are working with militias, both Sunni and Shia, who have American blood on their hands, just to make it look like progress is being made.
You know, I wonder if Bush and Cheney had just been honest with the American people from the start, if they had just said folks, it's either the US getting our hands on Iraq's oil now or soon China and/or Russia will control it and we need to keep them from getting it first ... if more of us would have backed Bush on that deal.
I'm enough of a realist to know that if we don't control Iraq's oil there's a good chance someday soon the real threat to our country -- Communist China -- will. It might not even bother me that Bush's Big Oil buddies would make billions off the deal.
America has turned against this Administration because of the Lies, the almost 4000 of our military dead and the unnecessary 600,000 dead Iraqi civilians, because they couldn't be bothered to do the proper research or formulate a complete plan for the war, and the preplanned theft of billions from our US Treasury.
The American people will forgive almost anything except being lied to......
