Retired U.S. commander speaks out for Democrats(radio address)

Source: Reuters

The general who led U.S. forces in Iraq after the invasion launched by Republican President George W. Bush spoke out for Democrats on Saturday, backing legislation aimed at withdrawing American troops.

Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, in the Democratic weekly radio address, acknowledged that Bush's escalation strategy this year had improved security in Iraq. But he said Iraqi political leaders had failed to make "hard choices necessary to bring peace to their country."

"There is no evidence that the Iraqis will choose to do so in the near future or that we have an ability to force that result," said Sanchez, an increasingly vocal critic of what he called Bush administration policy failures in Iraq.

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"It is well past time to adopt a new approach in Iraq that will improve chances to produce stability in the Middle East," he said. "I urge our political leaders to put aside partisan considerations and unite to lessen the burden our troops and their families have been under for nearly five years."



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No one listens past the point of 'Dems acknowledge GOPers were right'.

Much later in the speech, this idiot places caveats on the success but no one is paying much attention by then.

I thought Sanchez was a made man in the Bush mafia.

I was wrong.

(a few circles above the hell for unrepentant ones)