Daily Revolt

October 13, 2007

General Sanchez: Iraq War a "Nightmare with no End in Sight"

Here we have another former Iraq general that has the decency to speak out against this fiasco. Bush has always removed Generals that didn't give him the answers that he wanted on the war. Ricardo Sanchez was just one of those Generals. In that respect, he is a lot like Hitler and Stalin, and just as dangerous:
A former top US military commander in Iraq said the current White House strategy in Iraq will not achieve victory in the four-and-a-half-year war, which he described as "a nightmare with no end in sight" in a hard-hitting speech.

In the bluntest assessment of Iraq by a former senior Pentagon official yet, retired Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez also lambasted US political leaders as "incompetent," "inept," "derelict in the performance of their duty" and suggested they would have been court-martialed had they been members of the US military.

"There is no question that America is living a nightmare with no end in sight," said Sanchez on Friday, addressing a meeting of military correspondents and editors in Arlington, a Virginia suburb of Washington.

He blasted President George W. Bush's "surge" strategy which calls for maintaining more than 160,000 US troops in Iraq until the end of the year in the hope of reducing sectarian violence and bringing political stability.

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