2008-05-02 Ex-Iraq commander accuses Bush Administration of gross incompetence
{{#vardefine:keylist|}}{{#vardefine:Date|2008-05-02}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Date}}{{#vardefine:Date.disp|2008-05-02}}{{#vardefine:Date.disp|[[{{#var:Date}}]]}}{{#vardefine:Topics|\US-Iraq War\43rd US Presidential administration\Bush II administration secrecy\Bush II administration incompetence\Ricardo S. Sanchez\CENTCOM\Tommy Franks}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Topics}}{{#vardefine:Topics.disp|\US-Iraq War\43rd US Presidential administration\Bush II administration secrecy\Bush II administration incompetence\Ricardo S. Sanchez\CENTCOM\Tommy Franks}}{{#vardefine:URL|http://rawstory.com/news/2008/ExIraq_commander_says_Bush_Administration_grossly_0502.html}}{{#vardefine:keylist%7C{{#var:keylist}}\URL}}{{#vardefine:URL.disp%7Chttp://rawstory.com/news/2008/ExIraq_commander_says_Bush_Administration_grossly_0502.html}}{{#vardefine:Title%7CEx-Iraq commander accuses Bush Administration of 'gross incompetence'}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Title}}{{#vardefine:Title.disp|Ex-Iraq commander accuses Bush Administration of 'gross incompetence'}}{{#vardefine:Text|“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."”}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Text}}{{#vardefine:Text.disp|“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."”}} {{#xploop:{{#var:Topics}}||}} {{#xploop:{{#var:keylist}}|\n* $s$: \o#var:$s$.disp\c}}