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Whistle-Blowing MSM Doesn’t Hear
Behind the media popcorn of Scott McClellan’s revelations, relatively unnoticed is a new book by the former American commander in Iraq that should be red meat for historians.
This week’s Time has an excerpt from “Wiser in Battle: A Soldier’s Story” by Gen. Ricardo Sanchez that nails his Pentagon boss Don Rumsfeld, along with the rest of the Bush Administration, for “gross incompetence and dereliction of duty” at the start of the unfolding disaster.
This is no out-of-the-loop flunky’s account of what happened, but the testimony of the man in the middle of it all, one of the generals whose advice Bush maintained he would follow but obviously did not.
4 Responses to “Whistle-Blowing MSM Doesn’t Hear”
On 14th November 2006 human rights advocate Wolfgang Kaleck brought charges at the German Federal Attorney General (Generalbundesanwalt) against Ricardo Sanchez and a number of other high officials for their involvement in human rights violations in Abu Ghraib in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons why his tell all book is not getting much press. Its a CYA op.
I'm sure Sanchez would love to exempt himself from blame. He was, however, the senior commanding general.
I can't believe history will be any kinder to Sanchez than it will be to Bush or Rumsfeld or Rice or any of the rest of them. I think the main question will be whether Sanchez was the worst senior commander since William Westmorland–or since Ambrose Burnside.
I'd imagine he has plenty of scores to settle. But if he were wise, he'd get himself down the memory-hole as quickly as possible.
I thought McClellan’s book was a CYA too Neocon.
There are two questions, of course. 1) Should we admire the author, and 2) Is the content of the book basically true? We've had three comments on the first matter. Does anyone know about the second? (I do not.)