1.0 link 68301 <![CDATA[Former Top US Commander In Iraq Calls War "Nightmare With No End In Sight"]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/12/former-top-us-commander-i_n_68301.html In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq, the former top American commander called the Bush administration's handling of the war incompetent and warned that the United States was "living a nightmare with no end in sight."

In one of his first major public speeches since leaving the Army in late 2006, retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez blamed the administration for a "catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic war plan" and denounced the current "surge" strategy as a "desperate" move...

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