‘No end in sight’
Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who retired in 2006 in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal, is not having a very quiet retirement. First, the former top commander of American forces in Iraq spoke out against the Bush administration, calling its handling of the war “incompetent” and the situation in Iraq “a nightmare with no end in sight.”
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Now, he’s turned his sights on all those pesky reporters. “The death knell of your ethics has been enabled by your parent organizations who have chosen to align themselves with political agendas,” Sanchez told military reporters and editors at a luncheon Friday.
“You are perpetuating the corrosive partisan politics that is destroying our country and killing our service members who are at war. … For some of you, just like some of our politicians, the truth is of little to no value if it does not fit your own preconceived notions, biases and agendas.”
