who said this?
and who said:
the administration had a “catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic war plan” and denounced the current “surge” strategy as a “desperate” move that will not achieve long-term stability.
“after more than fours years of fighting, america continues its desperate struggle in iraq without any concerted effort to devise a strategy that will achieve victory in that war-torn country or in the greater conflict against extremism,”
“there was been a glaring and unfortunate display of incompetent strategic leadership within our national leaders,” he said, adding later in his remarks that civilian officials have been “derelict in their duties” and guilty of a “lust for power.”
“national leadership continues to believe that victory can be achieved by military power alone,” he said. “continued manipulations and adjustments to our military strategy will not achieve victory. the best we can do with this flawed approach is stave off defeat.”
“the administration, congress and the entire inter-agency, especially the state department, must shoulder responsibility for the catastrophic failure, and the american people must hold them accountable,”
who said these things yesterday?
oh, that’s general sanchez, a republican(now retired)general who was the bush administrations leader of coalition forces in iraq for 2 years.
when a republican general, handpicked by the bush administration, says these things, well, doesn’t that kind of mean that the war in iraq is a complete, utter, and comprehensive disaster?
how can the gop and the right wing dismiss these comments when they come from:
a-a republican
b-a u.s army general
c-the man who led coalition troops in iraq for 2 years
?
maybe it’s time to finally end our involvement in iraq?
no good can possibly come from our poor troops(aka-targets)remaining in the middle
of a sectarian quagmire.
-moby