U.S. commander (retired) speaks out for Democrats

November 25, 2007

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The general who led U.S. forces in Iraq after the invasion launched by Republican President George W. Bush spoke out for Democrats on Saturday, backing legislation aimed at withdrawing American troops.

Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, in the Democratic weekly radio address, acknowledged that Bush’s escalation strategy this year had improved security in Iraq. But he said Iraqi political leaders had failed to make “hard choices necessary to bring peace to their country.”

“There is no evidence that the Iraqis will choose to do so in the near future or that we have an ability to force that result,” said Sanchez, an increasingly vocal critic of what he called Bush administration policy failures in Iraq.

He endorsed the latest attempt by Democrats in the House of Representatives to use Iraq-war funding legislation to push for a reduction of U.S. troops. The House passed a measure last week that would have set a goal of withdrawing all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by December 15, 2008, but Republicans in the Senate blocked it.

The Pentagon said Iraq strategy should be guided by current commanders there. Spokesman Bryan Whitman, asked about Sanchez’s remarks, said, “I think our military commanders that are on the ground in Iraq today are in the best position to make recommendations to the nation’s leadership about the progress that’s being made and the best strategy to embark upon.”

Well it looks like the Bush cronies have another “voice” to shut up, or at least try. It seems to me that sooner then later the president will have no choice but to acknowledge these experts and their stance on Iraq. He (the president) has already lost the will of the American people, that went a long time ago, and is on his way to losing the will of the military. It is only a matter of time before this war will come to an end, and when history looks back and time has taken its course, George W. Bush will be exposed as the complete and utter failure that many of us all ready see him to be today. Thanks to Reuters for this information.