Mark’s Soap Box

Failed General Ricardo Sanchez who oversaw the Abu Ghraib debacle is attacking Bush over Iraq.

Going sideways or just slanted news coverage ? Was he affirmative action at work?

No doubt he is upset at his own failures and blames everyone but himself.

“There is no question that America is living a nightmare with no end in sight,” retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez told a convention of military journalists on Friday.

Sanchez commanded U.S. troops in Iraq from June 2003 to July 2004. His controversial tenure saw the capture of Saddam Hussein and the handover of sovereignty to the Iraqi government, but also the rise of the insurgency and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

While cleared of any wrongdoing, one report found that Sanchez and his deputy, “failed to ensure proper staff oversight of detention and interrogation operations.”

Guess maybe it’s his fault we are in this “quagmire”, or is it a “nightmare”?

Abu Ghraib was a sore subject Friday for Sanchez, who lambasted the media for using phrases like “dictatorial and somewhat dense,” “liar” and “torturer” to describe him.

“I also refused to talk to the European Stars and Stripes for the last two years of my command in Germany, for their extreme bias and single-minded focus on Abu Ghraib,” he said.

Huh? So the rest of the media was fair? This must be news to the left, that Stars and Stripes was biased against the Army. I wonder if he talked to the other media, since he needs them to clear his name. Good luck with that.

Sadly his failure, will make it almost impossible for any of his good ideas to be heard.

The left is now embracing him as a hero, ok it’s just a slanted AP story; still the same though.

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