Sanchez speaks
From a new memoir by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former commander of US forces in Iraq:
Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars were unnecessarily spent, and worse yet, too many of our most precious military resource, our American soldiers, were unnecessarily wounded, maimed, and killed as a result. In my mind, this action by the Bush administration amounts to gross incompetence and dereliction of duty.
Sanchez was scapegoated and denied a promotion by Donald Rumsfeld, once it became clear the occupation of Iraq was turning into a disaster. As they say, go read the whole thing.