2008-05-02 Ex-Iraq commander accuses Bush Administration of gross incompetence

2008-05-02 John Byrne The Raw Story \US-Iraq War\Bush-Cheney administration\Bush-Cheney administration/secrecy\Bush-Cheney administration/incompetence\Ricardo S. Sanchez\CENTCOM\Tommy Franks\Wiser in Battle http://rawstory.com/news/2008/ExIraq_commander_says_Bush_Administration_grossly_0502.html Ex-Iraq commander accuses Bush Administration of 'gross incompetence' &ldquo;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.&rdquo;  In a new memoir set to be published 2008-05-06, 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."   