2008-05-02 Ex-Iraq commander accuses Bush Administration of gross incompetence

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Date:	2008-05-02
Link:	http://rawstory.com/news/2008/ExIraq_commander_says_Bush_Administration_grossly_0502.html
Author:	John Byrne (writingscat)
Source:	The Raw Story (articlescat)
Topics:	US-Iraq War Bush-Cheney administration Bush-Cheney administration/secrecy Bush-Cheney administration/incompetence Ricardo S. Sanchez CENTCOM Tommy Franks Wiser in Battle
Categories:	US-Iraq War Bush-Cheney administration Bush-Cheney administration/secrecy Bush-Cheney administration/incompetence Ricardo S. Sanchez CENTCOM Tommy Franks Wiser in Battle

Ex-Iraq commander accuses Bush Administration of 'gross incompetence'

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In a new memoir set to be published May 6, the former commander of US forces in Iraq provides new intimate details of the goings-on at high levels of the Bush Administration in the first year of the Iraq war.

His sharp tongued conclusion: "Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars were unnecessarily spent, and worse yet, too many of our most precious military resource, our American soldiers, were unnecessarily wounded, maimed, and killed as a result. In my mind, this action by the Bush administration amounts to gross incompetence and dereliction of duty."

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“Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars were unnecessarily spent, and worse yet, too many of our most precious military resource, our American soldiers, were unnecessarily wounded, maimed, and killed as a result. In my mind, this action by the Bush administration amounts to gross incompetence and dereliction of duty.”