Now he tells us - Volume 4,237
So Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez has decided to join the seemingly endless line of former Bush administration officials and retired military officers in telling us all that the administration is incompetent and the war is going badly.
In one of his first major public speeches since leaving the Army in late 2006, retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez blamed the administration for a “catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic war plan” and denounced the current “surge” strategy as a “desperate” move that will not achieve long-term stability.
You know what? We know that. Hell, everybody with more than a couple of functioning brain cells that has been following the total clusterfuck these idiots made of Iraq knows that, and that even includes a good chunk of the people who still support the Bush administration. This isn't news.
What we'd really like to know is why nobody in the administration, or the military, has the balls to stand up and tell everybody how FUBARed the whole thing is before they've left and signed a book deal.
I understand personal profit being a major motivation for a greedy and selfish race like ours, but I'd hope that, at least possibly in the military, the words honour and duty would be more than just words. I guess I'm still not pessimistic enough.
