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If ever there was a clearer example of selective reporting and bias by the media, here is the best example to date. The left is translating and selectively quoting LTG (Ret) Ricardo Sanchez' comments during the October 12 Military Reporters and Editors Luncheon in Washington D.C. "Former top general rips Bush’s Iraq policy" is not exactly what happened here, yet if you were to accept their editorializing, that's what many are going to come away with. See a pattern? So what did General Sanchez say, and what did he mean by it? Let me take a stab at it....

Stepping out of his car to the welcoming sounds of a serenading mariachi, Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sanchez entered the United South High School library Wednesday for a private evening reception honoring the Army's highest ranking Hispanic. Dressed in casual civilian clothes, and making the rounds to warmly greet each of the nearly 100 veterans, teachers, students and community members who turned out to see him, it was hard to imagine that this was the man who headed more than 130,000 American troops and coalition forces in Iraq. The Rio Grande City native was reassigned last summer to Heidelberg, Germany,...

American GI Forum convention is today There is a lot in store for those attending the annual American GI Forum convention in Corpus Christi today and Saturday. Today's events begin at 9 a.m. in the Omni Bayfront Hotel's A and B ballrooms, the same rooms where the banquet featuring the keynote speaker, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, will be held. The banquet begins at 7 p.m. and is $75 per person. Today also features a speaker from the Texas Workforce Commission and, at 11:30 a.m., children from the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Child Care Center will perform a play about the...