It would have been nice had he spoken up three years ago. Former Iraq commander, General Ricardo Sanchez, is finally coming out and criticizing the Bush administration’s handling of the Iraq war.
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.
Sanchez in not without blame, and he admits he made mistakes as well. Anyone who read “Fiasco” knows that Sanchez was part of the problem.
That said, the Administration and most Republicans are unwilling to end this mess. They need to be held accountable, and hopefully these remarks will increase the pressure on Senate Republicans to vote with the Democrats to end this war.
