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− | + | <let name=data index=Date>2008-05-02</let> | |
− | + | <let name=data index=Author>John Byrne</let> | |
− | + | <let name=data index=Source>The Raw Story</let> | |
− | + | <let name=data index=Topics>\US-Iraq War\Bush-Cheney administration\Bush-Cheney administration/secrecy\Bush-Cheney administration/incompetence\Ricardo S. Sanchez\CENTCOM\Tommy Franks\Wiser in Battle</let> | |
− | {{ | + | <let name=data index=URL>http://rawstory.com/news/2008/ExIraq_commander_says_Bush_Administration_grossly_0502.html</let> |
− | </noinclude> | + | <let name=data index=Title>Ex-Iraq commander accuses Bush Administration of 'gross incompetence'</let> |
+ | <let name=data index=TextShort>“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-Cheney administration|Bush administration]] amounts to gross incompetence and dereliction of duty.”</let> | ||
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+ | <p>In a [[Wiser in Battle|new memoir]] set to be published {{date|2008-05-06|May 6}}, the [[Ricardo S. Sanchez|former commander]] of US forces in [[Iraq]] provides new intimate details of the goings-on at high levels of the [[Bush-Cheney administration|Bush Administration]] in the first year of the [[US-Iraq War|Iraq war]].</p> | ||
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+ | <p>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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