Republicans fire back at Sanchez for Iraq war criticism

Source: CNN

Republicans reacted with surprise and recrimination Sunday to blistering criticism of the Iraq war from former coalition commander retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez.

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"I'm astounded, really," South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham on CNN's "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer on Sunday.

"Every time we talked to Gen. Sanchez, we got pushback -- we have enough troops; Guard and reserves aren't being strained," Graham said.

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Sen. Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, told ABC's "This Week" that Sanchez is simply wrong. "My definition of winning is a stable country and an ally in the war on terror," he said. "I think we're making significant progress toward that end."

But, he added, "I think the central government in Iraq has been an embarrassment. They've not been able to produce any of the kind of political compromises that we had hoped for."


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/14/sanchez.react/index.html

Why didn't he speak up earlier?
Didn't he have any input at the time he was in Iraq?

He sounds pretty aggravated at both parties, as he should be,

From the article linked in the OP:

Instead, he made sure he had his full pension all nice and salted away before he finally decided to speak out in support of the troops who are being blown to pieces or having their sanity shattered. His monthly pension check would be dripping with blood in a just world, written on the bones of the dead.

They hate america

America is a people and a Constitution. The GOP spits on the people and shreds the Constitution, and sends our troops to die without rhyme or reason.

But the reason is to fill their pockets with cash from the corporations that are raking in our tax dollars for this fiasco!

anybody want to place bets when Limbaugh will say it?

the illegal invasion and occupation of a sovereign country was "corrupted by partisan politics that have prevented us from devising effective, executable, supportable solutions"????

Didn't this asshole learn ANYTHING from Vietnam???

YOU CAN'T "WIN" A WAR ANYMORE ASSHOLE!!!!

So why bother fucking fighting them???

dumb shit fascist...

referred to as so inept that they would be court marshaled or fired if they were in the Military. They prove just how corrupt and inept they are almost daily.

The timing screams "damage control!"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/14/AR2007101401245.html?hpid=topnews

Sanchez told the truth, and the truth hurts.

They need to get their heads out of the sand and WAKE UP, Iraq is a catastrophy, pure and simple.

Didn't Congress just pass a resolution to that effect?