Reply #51: 'No end in sight' in Iraq, retired general says

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Ricardo Sanchez decries 'incompetent strategic leadership.'
From the Washington Post
October 13, 2007

... "The administration, Congress and the entire interagency, especially the State Department, must shoulder the responsibility for this catastrophic failure, and the American people must hold them accountable," Sanchez told military reporters and editors. "There has been a glaring unfortunate display of incompetent strategic leadership within our national leaders."

Sanchez lashed out specifically at the National Security Council, calling officials there negligent and incompetent, without offering details. He also blasted war policies over the last four years, which he said had stripped senior military officers of responsibility and thrust the armed services into an "intractable position" in Iraq.

"The best we can do with this flawed approach is stave off defeat," Sanchez said in a speech to the Military Reporters and Editors' annual conference in Arlington, Va. "Without bipartisan cooperation, we are destined to fail. There is nothing going on in Washington that would give us hope." ...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-sanchez13oct13,1,4624627.story?coll=la-headlines-nation