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Wiser in Battle- Sanchez
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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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The Raw Story | Ex-Iraq commander accuses Bush Administration of 'gross incompetence'
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...called the ACLU "...a bunch of sensationalist liars,
I mean lawyers, that will distort any and all information that they get to draw attention to their positions."
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After the meeting ended, I remember walking out of the Pentagon shaking my head and wondering how in the world Rumsfeld could have expected me to believe him. Everybody knew that CENTCOM had issued orders to drawdown the forces. The Department of Defense had printed public affairs guidance for how the military should answer press queries about the redeployment. There were victory parades being planned. And in mid-May 2003, Rumsfeld himself had sent out some of his famous "snowflake" memorandums to Gen. Franks asking how the general was going to redeploy all the forces in Kuwait. The Secretary knew. Everybody knew.
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And the investigators were now telling me that the plan called for a Phase IV (after combat action) operation that would last twelve to eighteen months...
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Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story : Books
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Thought this interesting and you guys might look it over for a book review. It will be on shelves May sixth, 2008 
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