US can forget about winning in Iraq says another top retired US general

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3 June 2007

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - The man who led coalition forces in Iraq during the first year of the occupation says the United States can forget about winning the war.

“I think if we do the right things politically and economically with the right Iraqi leadership we could still salvage at least a stalemate, if you will — not a stalemate but at least stave off defeat,” retired Army Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez said in an interview.

Sanchez, in his first interview since he retired last year, is the highest-ranking former military leader yet to suggest the Bush administration fell short in Iraq.

“I am absolutely convinced that America has a crisis in leadership at this time,” Sanchez told AFP after a recent speech in San Antonio, Texas. snip

Though he was cleared of wrongdoing by an Army probe, Abu Ghraib’s searing images of naked prisoners humiliated by a rogue torture squad cost Sanchez an almost certain fourth star in the Senate, which approves general officer promotions.

He made sure he kept his mouth shut so he'd get that extra star which translates to a hefty retired pay packet, eh?

Where was he when it was going to shit? Taking care of himself, that's where...