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Sanchez may have been commander in Iraq, but he says he was just following orders
Fort Mill Times ^ | May 18, 2008 | NANCY A. YOUSSEF

Posted on 05/18/2008 7:38:41 PM PDT by magellan

WASHINGTON


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: army; iraq; oif; ricardosanchez; sanchez; usarmy
Unbelievable. I have always thought L/G Sanchez was an utterly incompetent General, this proves it. He should never been promoted above Major. Not Major General, but Major.

I do not know what got into the Army in the 1990s, but they promoted some useless people into the flag officer corps. M/G Batiste is another one who amazes me. He bitched about Rumsfeld, but he never offered, or was never asked, why the five or six generals between him in Rumsfeld were ignoring his requests.

There are corporals out there who have more leadership and more sense of responsibility than Sanchez and Batiste.

Sanchez's incompetence has been proven by the success of Petraeus and Odierno. He knows it, and instead of fading away, is reacting defensively. He looks a fool. He had no control but Petraeus and Odierno do? Or are Petraeus and Odierno simple puppets like Sanchez, and the Gates is a better string puller than Rumsfeld? You gotta be kidding me.

Rummy may have made many mistakes, but he was spot on in realizing the problems in the Army leadership (the main reason he pulled Schoomaker out or retirement to be the CSA).

1 posted on 05/18/2008 7:38:41 PM PDT by magellan
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To: magellan

Sanchez and Bremer are two of the main culprits who almost lost us the WOT. But Rummy also bears much of the blame.


2 posted on 05/18/2008 7:45:04 PM PDT by attiladhun2 (Obama is the anti-Reagan, instead of opposing the world's tyrants, he wants to embrace them)
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To: magellan

It’s hard to dump on the General though magellan, this is just a small bit of what happened, from admittedly a General who a less then successful time in Iraq, but I also think that Bremer and Rumsfeld had issues as well.


3 posted on 05/18/2008 7:46:57 PM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3/Cry havoc and let slip the RINOS)
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To: magellan

He’s dirty.


4 posted on 05/18/2008 7:58:57 PM PDT by AndrewB
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To: magellan
"That battle ended in failure less than a month later and signaled to the insurgency that the U.S. would walk away from a major fight."

If you don't retaliate or respond at all, isn't that like being afraid to even SHOW UP for a fight? Oh, that would REALLY scare them.

Whereas, if you at least inflict some pain and losses on the other party, he knows he won't get a free-ride if he messes with you again. [No, I'm not a General, but had a lot of street fights as a kid. We do require that Generals have juvenile "street fight" experience, don't we?]

5 posted on 05/18/2008 8:01:05 PM PDT by LZ_Bayonet (There's Always Something.............And there's always something worse!)
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To: attiladhun2

“Sanchez and Bremer are two of the main culprits who almost lost us the WOT”

We haven’t “almost lost” the WOT. There have been mistakes but we are fighting an intelligent enemy. After all our enemy has the best education America has to offer.


6 posted on 05/18/2008 8:06:40 PM PDT by driftdiver
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To: driftdiver

Before the surge, we were definately not winning the WOT. (I consider Iraq to be the main front in the GWOT, not a seperate war, as BO and the Dems seem to think). Losing Iraq would have lost us Afghanistan, as well, since the now emboldened jihadists would flow from Iraq into that country with a vengence—with increased funds, weaponry, recruits, and above all, morale. Now, I think that scenario is less likely, if BO or Her Thighness can be kept out the WH.


7 posted on 05/18/2008 8:14:57 PM PDT by attiladhun2 (Obama is the anti-Reagan, instead of opposing the world's tyrants, he wants to embrace them)
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To: driftdiver

We haven’t “almost lost” the WOT. There have been mistakes but we are fighting an intelligent enemy. After all our enemy has the best education America has to offer.

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8 posted on 05/18/2008 8:20:48 PM PDT by philly-d-kidder (From Kuwait where the Weather is always Partly Sandy!)
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To: magellan

The folks who wrote the blurbs on his book are the Clintoon, CNN crowd.


9 posted on 05/18/2008 8:30:42 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Don't Blame Me - I Supported Duncan Hunter)
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To: magellan

The bulb burns dimly........


10 posted on 05/18/2008 8:45:23 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: SoCalPol

I’ll bet a dollar to a donut that if you look, you will see quite a few incompetent General officers put into place during the Clinton administration. Just another way to mess up America.


11 posted on 05/19/2008 4:23:23 AM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: All

First of all, the article is correct.

Secondly, you know nothing about this man.

I worked for him at one time.

This is the usual mean-spirited vile, uniformed crap you folks put out concerning people you know nothing about.


12 posted on 05/19/2008 9:04:47 AM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

uniformed = uninformed

I’m too angry to see straight.


13 posted on 05/19/2008 9:17:57 AM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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