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.