Posted on 04/19/2011 9:15:57 AM PDT by Starman417
It looks like the left has found someone to run for the senate in Texas. Maybe they think that a Hispanic can win in Texas because of his ethnic heritage. That would be the only way he could get elected since those who served under him in Iraq did not value his style of leadership.
As part of my doctoral dissertation, I surveyed several hundred field grade officers who served under LTG Ricardo Sanchez Here are some of the results of my study:
The Army Leadership doctrine is compiled in FM 6-22, published in 2006. The primary leadership style most values by the Army is the "learn and adapt" leadership style. This leadership style is most suited to fighting an asymmetrical war like Iraq and Afghanistan where counter insurgency strategies are needed. The officers surveyed viewed LTG Sanchez as being primarily a bureaucratic leader. I suppose he would fit right in with the current senators!
Officers who responded rated LTG Sanchez about 2.5 on a scale of 1-5 (5 being the most characteristic) as exhibiting the leadership characteristics most valued by the US Army. The same officers rated GEN Petraeus 4.5 on the same survey. (95% confidence level)
I served under LTG Sanchez in 2003 in Iraq. I provided at least one power point slide for his daily brief. My organization identified critical issues during those briefings that required decisions by LTG Sanchez to either make or change policy, rules of engagement or other issues. It appeared to those of us out in the field that our leader was more interested in being the commander than commanding/leading. He would make a good book end for our current president.
Here are a few comments made by those field grade officers who took the survey concerning LTG Sanchez:
Leaders are facing a great challenge in fighting a war while transforming the Armed Forces, unfortunately many young Generals are not adaptive enough to meet the challenge.
Iraq was in a degrading "do-loop" of old methods and poor results through the tenure of both GEN Sanchez and GEN Casey. Neither was prepared for the task they had on hand. It was not until the completely different point of view of GEN Petraeus came into the position that the war changed into a success. His brilliance and capability is evident by how quickly our fortunes there turned in our favor so fast. September 7th or 15th, 2007 (I cannot exactly remember the day of the Shia ceasefire) was the magic day. I was with 1st Cav and went back twice more after that, everything changed that day and it was a result of the change in method implemented by GEN Petraeus.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Gen Sanchez went to Henderson HS West Chester Pa and they don’t like him
David Hackworth would include Sanchez in his list of Perfumed Princess I suspect. But then agian, he’d fit right in in the Senate. It’s not like there are any leaders there now.
In his recent book “Known and Unknown”, Rumsfeld made it very clear that Sanchez was in way over his head.
Let us remind the liberals that Lt Gen Sanchez allegedy wrote the rules for treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib!
Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
If any one person or group can be blamed for the errors in Iraq it was the Generals in the lead from 2004-2006. This included Sanchez. As stated here, he did not have the leadership to change course, wheras Petreus came in an made significant change that altered the course of the war. It is unbelievably ironic that the left would back someone from this group for an elected office. This is one of the individuals they should be most stridently against.
Compare this with the mother of Pat Tillman who is still trying to fight McCrystal because of his role in Tillman’s death mishandling. Agree or disagree, she is consistent.
You only need to know two things to be a general:
1. Sh_t flows downhill.
2. When’s payday.
Oh, that’s plumbers. Well, plumbers...generals...same thing.
It’s too bad these guys get promoted. Is he another of those guys who moved up fast under Bill Clinton?
Wikipedia says very little about that period, but evidently he was a Lt. Colonel in the First Gulf War, and had worked his way up to General by the time Clinton left office.
He was in charge during the worst of the Bush years in Iraq. From Wiki:
Disunity in leadership
L. Paul Bremer was the leader of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. There was almost a complete failure to communicate between Bremer, the top civilian, and Sanchez, the military leader. “It was very clear they hated each other. They lived in the same palace and didn’t talk to each other.” This disunity in leadership has been cited as one of the major failures of the first year of the Iraq War.[1]
Abu Ghraib
Sanchez was commander of coalition forces during a period when abuse of prisoners occurred at Abu Ghraib and at other locations. In a memo signed by General Sanchez and later acquired by the ACLU through a Freedom of Information Act request, techniques were authorized to interrogate prisoners, included “environmental manipulation” such as making a room hot or cold or using an “unpleasant smell”, isolating a prisoner, disrupting normal sleep patterns and “convincing the detainee that individuals from a country other than the United States are interrogating him.”[2]
Well, I don’t fault him for that, and Abu Ghraib was mainly the responsibility of that woman National Guard officer, and the jerks who took pictures of each other in the prison.
But it does make you wonder. No matter how good a leftist he may be, do the Democrats really want to run somebody who was blamed for Abu Ghraib?
Was he a Hispanic general or an American general?
3 star general
Be
My
Loving
General
“Gen Sanchez went to Henderson HS West Chester Pa and they don’t like him”
Since I don’t believe in PC...You are a liar.
Sanchez came from a very poor family. He grew up in Rio Grande City.
Quit spreading lies.
Sanchez is Spanish for “Wesley Clark.”
Doesn’t matter; he’s a Mexican; that’s all that matters and millions will turn out for him. And there’s no real competition in this race; least ways, not yet.
Esperanza y el Cambio
(Hope and Change)
The blue-blood RINO Bushes are likely behind this.
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