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Ricardo Sanchez: June 2009

Ricardo Sanchez

General Sanchez: We Asked For Help On Interrogations, But "It Didn't Come"

Zachary Roth | June 2, 2009, 4:27PM

General Ricardo Sanchez, the former top commander of coalition forces in Iraq, has added a bit more detail to his claim last night that his soldiers were "abandoned on the battlefield" by civilian leaders in the Bush administration.

Speaking this afternoon to CNN's Rick Sanchez (no relation), General Sanchez repeated the charge that he and his soldiers were abandoned on the battlefield on the issue of harsh interrogations. General Sanchez explained that this occurred "because of a lack of policy guidance, a lack of structure, a lack of training." He added: "And even when commanders were asking for this help, it didn't come."

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Ricardo Sanchez

Gen. Sanchez: My Soldiers Were "Abandoned On The Battlefield"

Zachary Roth | June 2, 2009, 11:23AM

As we told you yesterday, General Ricardo Sanchez, the former top commander in Iraq, called Sunday night for a truth commission to investigate torture, and declared that the practice never produced actionable intelligence.

And last night, speaking to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, Sanchez repeated his call for the commission. He added that, in the aftermath of the effort, "we must have all options open, from commendation to prosecution," so that we can "move forward and regain the moral high ground that we have lost."

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Torture

Former Top Iraq Commander Calls For Truth Commission

Zachary Roth | June 1, 2009, 10:54AM

General Ricardo Sanchez, the former top coalition commander in Iraq, has called for a truth commission to investigate abusive interrogation practices.

At an event last night at the Times Center in New York City, reports the Huffington Post, Sanchez blamed the Abu Ghraib abuses on a failure of civilian and military command at all levels, declaring "and that is why I support the formation of a truth commission."

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