Sanchez tries turd polishing...results in Carlyle Group job offer
Well, not really. But this little gem that passed GEN Sanchez's lips has to be for the purpose of ensuring that post-retirement large dollar defense contractor "job" consulting or some such. Sanchez is the biggest flag-rank 1600 Crew apologist/cheerleader in the theatre.
The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said Thursday there was no need for more U.S. troops in the country and blamed continuing violence on insufficient intelligence and lack of cooperation from the Iraqi people.
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"Putting more soldiers on the ground is not going to solve the problem if I don't have the intelligence to act on," Sanchez said at a news conference.
Sanchez said casualty figures since the end of major fighting in Iraq -- declared by President Bush on May 1 -- were "about what we would expect to get in this kind of conflict." Since May 1, 143 U.S. soldiers have died -- five more than during the war itself.
What a tool. He seems amazed that cooperation from the Iraqis is not more forthcoming...ummm, General, arresting everyone in sight, having your soldier humiliate detainees and just acting like King Shit along with Viceroy Bremer (who knows he's King Shit), does not exactly work in favor of making you the Iraqis choice for "Best Occupier since Genghis Khan" award.
posted by Jo Fish on 08.28.03 at 11:06 PM
Comments:
I like the "Putting more soldiers on the ground is not going to solve the problem if I don't have the intelligence to act on," I just seriously wonder if he means intelligence as "militarily useful information" or intelligence as in "having brains". I certainly assume that by "I" he doesn't means himself personally, but his whole chain of command, up and down.
A minor example of the lack of intelligence can be found here: http://dearraed.blogspot.com/2003_08_01_dear_raed_archive.html#106210341104140826
Greetings
Karl Heinz
Hamburg, Germany
posted by: khr on 08.29.03 at 04:52 AM [permalink]
