General Sanchez gives the Democratic Response
There are times that I really don’t like this format. It seems petty or tit for tat. The president gives his weekly radio address and there is a democratic response.
This week General Richardo Sanchez who has recently been outspoken about his opposition to the war. I have a problem with those who were on the inside who helped carry out Bush’s policies who now decide that everything isn’t as rosy as they pictured it several months before. I know of no independent source that states that General Sanchez tried to stand up to the Donald Rumsfeld or any of the others in the pentagon. As a matter of fact, Thomas Rick’s book, Fiasco paints Sanchez as a yes man which is why Rumsfeld choose him.
General Sanchez really just reinforces what we already know about Iraq. Our troops are performing well. They are doing everything that we ask and more. There is no political solution in sight. Without a political solution we are wasting time and money and valuable men/women. Yes, there is less violence in Iraq. This is a great thing but without a oil revenue sharing deal our soldiers are just out there in the breeze. Sanchez says that it is time for our troops to come home.
We need to start the orderly redeployment of our troops. Tens of thousands need to go to Afghanistan. We need to quell the violence and crush the remnants of the Taliban. Our military needs to be refit. We need new equipment. We have tons of needs including getting out of Iraq.
