The Last Stand of Ricardo Sanchez

The ex-commander of troops in Iraq thinks some of his superiors should go to hell.





Last November, days after the release of George W. Bush’s memoir Decision Points, the founder of the Agenda Project, a left-leaning, New York–based advocacy group, telephoned Ricardo Sanchez, the retired Army lieutenant general who once led all coalition ground forces in Iraq, at his home in Texas. Would Sanchez be willing to publicly rebut the former president’s published version of the war?

“I told her absolutely not,” Sanchez says. “I had no intention of going out and buying a copy of Bush’s book.”



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“As a Christian, I must do what’s right regardless of what my personal consequences are, and that’s what I have embarked on,” he tells me. “It’s not just a duty for me as a believer. It’s also a duty to my subordinates and to all those young men and women who sacrificed their lives for this nation. And it’s just appalling to me that I have fellow general officers and superiors who’ve not had the courage to do that.”