Sanchez' Message (must read)

Captain's Quarters ^ | October 13, 2007 | Ed Morrissey

[Aria]

I just sent the link to Drudge....we’ll see....

[Anti-Bubba182]

Good idea!

[panthermom]

So sitting by and saying NOTHING out of fear is better???? It’s about time people started getting called to the carpet. Who gives a sh!t what the anti-war people think, nothing, absolutely nothing other than surrender will appease them.

[advance_copy]

I can’t help but believe Sanchez is trying to cover his own insufficiencies. He’s pointing his fingers at everybody else and not taking responsibility for the problems that arose while he was in command.

Also, MSNBC just reported that Sanchez has a book coming out. I am sure publicists just love his attacks on the President and the mission in Iraq.

I don’t care that he throws a bone to patriots with his brief condemnation of the media. Sanchez must know that this will never be repeated and all attention would be focused on his finger-pointing at the White House.

[advance_copy]

I can’t help but believe Sanchez is trying to cover his own insufficiencies. He’s pointing his fingers at everybody else and not taking responsibility for the problems that arose while he was in command.

Also, MSNBC just reported that Sanchez has a book coming out. I am sure publicists just love his attacks on the President and the mission in Iraq.

I don’t care that he throws a bone to patriots with his brief condemnation of the media. Sanchez must know that this will never be repeated and all attention would be focused on his finger-pointing at the White House.

[advance_copy]

I can’t help but believe Sanchez is trying to cover his own insufficiencies. He’s pointing his fingers at everybody else and not taking responsibility for the problems that arose while he was in command.

Also, MSNBC just reported that Sanchez has a book coming out. I am sure publicists just love his attacks on the President and the mission in Iraq.

I don’t care that he throws a bone to patriots with his brief condemnation of the media. Sanchez must know that this will never be repeated and all attention would be focused on his finger-pointing at the White House.

[mimaw]

I want to know where all the generals were when the Clintons were slashing military budgets to claim the piece dividend?

[fleagle]

I agree with you fortiori...

[Mr Rogers]

If that was his message, he should have written an article for National Review or some other reputable organization.

Saying it in a speech effectively dared the press to misquote him - so they did. And frankly, anyone of room temperature IQ could have told him in advance what the money quotes would be - that Iraq is a disaster, and it is GWB’s fault.

If he wanted both messages to get out, he needed to divide them into separate speeches/articles. And if he didn’t know that, then he wasn’t competent to be a GO in the modern military - where press reporting can create the facts you later need to fight!

[ImpBill]

See my 18 and 19!

[ImpBill]

See my 18 and 19!

[ImpBill]

Since you were so intent on getting your view out that you posted it 3 times ... LOL (done the same myself by accident as well).

See my 18 and 19!

[elpadre]

several thoughts came to me during MSN morning news on this:

1. sour grapes by one who was yanked off the battlefield
2. I wonder what his qualifications were to get such a resume’ enhancing position?
3. was he promoted above others because of affirmative action requirements?
4. why did he place that loser in charge of the Iraqi prisons - the female general. She obviously was in over her head?.

just wondering!!

[johnny7]

Great post to set the record straight... the censorship and lies from the DBM has quadrupled within the last 7 years!

[ImpBill]

Ok, so he gets and invitation to speak at the Military Reporters and Editors Luncheon! Is he to turn, the opportunity to tell them (free speech mind you) what he thinks of them and their ignored responsibilities, them down or just come to the dais and say "Red my remarks at National Review?

As Tommy Daschle once quipped, I am deeply disappointed at the responses from some of the folks on this forum. See my 18 and 19!

[ImpBill]

Sorry my spell editor doesn’t correct Red for Read. But I think you got my point. /;-)

[melancholy]

Bump!

[hermgem]

Sanchez, by naming the State Department as one of the causes of regression is kind to the one that functioned at the core:
The person in charge of State: Colin Powell.
He was the one that brought in Bremer, replacing Army General Gardner already in charge.
Powell won out over Rumsfeld, and what followed, Iraq was run and administered according to Powell’s idea of Democracy.
The one scene, shown on TV, where Hussein’s army personnel stood in a two mile long line expecting to get paid and then being cynically dismissed by Bremer speaks volumes.
These army people then turned subversive.
Yes, Sanchez names the State Department as a failure, the real culprit at the top and arrange-our, was Powell.
Without Powell throwing his weight around in Washington and subsequently installing “Iraq Ambassador Bremer” replacing General Gardner, State would not even have been there.
Opportunities, lives, monies wasted on account of a democracy fantasist the likes of Powell.

[Para-Ord.45]

Yeah, retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez.

Retired because he COULDN`T GET THE JOB DONE !

‘Sour grapes Sanchez’, that`s his nickname bro :-)

[ImpBill]

Amen!