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  • Gen. Sanchez's Scream

    10/18/2007 3:11:47 AM PDT · by The Raven · 48 replies · 246+ views
    Opinion Journal ^ | Oct 18, 2007 | DANIEL HENNINGER
    Over the past weekend there were front-page accounts everywhere of Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez's description of the war in Iraq as a "nightmare." The New York Times led its story this way: "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.' " Gen. Sanchez said this last Friday to a gathering of reporters and editors in Washington who cover military affairs. It was a dramatic denunciation from the man who...
  • Sanchez: Media's Reporting of Iraq War Endangered Soldiers' Lives

    10/14/2007 1:27:40 PM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 17 replies · 63+ views
    FOX News ^ | October 14, 2007 | Julie Kirtz and Mike Emanuel/AP
    WASHINGTON — The former top commander of coalition forces in Iraq may have called U.S. efforts there catastrophically flawed and unrealistically optimistic, but much of the criticism of the media by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez has been left unreported. In his speech to the Military Reporters and Editors Association in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Sanchez accused reporters of "unscrupulous reporting, solely focused on supporting an agenda and preconceived notions of the U.S. military." Without naming a specific company, Sanchez said "parent media organizations" have political agendas that direct the news coverage of the war and in some cases put U.S....