No one except perhaps the most extreme and myopic supporters of the war in Iraq believes that tragic mistakes and blunders were not made by the Pentagon, the White House, the military, the State Department, and anyone and everyone connected with that effort during the last 3 years.Therefore, it should come as no suprise that a former Commander in Iraq, General Ricardo Sanchez, is trying to shift the blame for some of his own shortcomings on other shoulders:In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq, the former top commander of American forces there called the Bush administration’s handling of the war “incompetent” and said the result was “a nightmare with no end in sight.” Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, who retired in 2006 after being replaced in Iraq after the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, blamed the Bush administration for a “catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic war plan” and denounced the current...(Read Full Post)