Per the General:
"(The Abu Ghraib prison scandal is) the key reason, the sole reason, that I was forced to retire. I was essentially not offered another position in either a three-star or four-star command." [1]
Knowing what he knows about the media, he should have ended his remarks after his criticism of the ‘journalists’.
You mean military no long has back-stabbing bootlicking media whores in its ranks? Who knew?