The Pot Talks About the Kettle

Josh Marshall has a post quoting a speech by General Ricardo Sanchez in which the quoter (Scott Horton) concludes:

For three months now, Sanchez has been making off-the-record statements. He eventually came to the conclusion, he says, that Republican politics had trumped the national security interests of the United States in the execution of plans in Iraq. The Bush Administration had not planned to win in Iraq, but simply to keep a war running so Bush could run around and play “war president.” That is as devastating a criticism as any general has made of a president since the days of Douglas MacArthur. Unlike MacArthur’s criticisms, however, it has the advantage of being accurate.

Josh comments:

I haven't seen much published reference to this speech but it seems we can add retired Gen. Ricardo Sanchez to the list of former Bush appointees and Generals serving under the president who turn out to be thoroughly disillusioned with the president's conduct of the war.

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Horton's right. If anything he understates it how devastating a charge that is. Does anyone know more about what Sanchez has been telling people off the record?

Well, whatever he's saying, he's got a lot of nerve.

I remember General Sanchez - the guy in charge of and approving the torture methods used at Abu Ghraib, and then lying about it to Congress.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.