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<let name=data index=Author>John Byrne</let>
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{{data.pair|Text|&ldquo;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 II administration|Bush Administration]] in the first year of the [[US-Iraq War|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."&rdquo;}}<noinclude>
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<let name=data index=Title>Ex-Iraq commander accuses Bush Administration of 'gross incompetence'</let>
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<let name=data index=TextShort>&ldquo;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.&rdquo;</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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