Somehow, I suspect this is not the way Texas Democrats would like articles about their likely 2012 U.S. Senate candidate to begin:
Former Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who oversaw coalition forces in Iraq before retiring in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, is running for Senate in Texas as a Democrat.
Two Democratic sources with direct knowledge of Sanchez’s plans said he will announce his run Wednesday on Facebook, then file campaign paperwork in San Antonio. The sources would speak only on condition of anonymity before the announcement.
Oh, sure, the Senate race in Texas will probably be dominated by issues like jobs, the economy, gas prices, drilling on and off shore, immigration, taxes, spending, etc. But the Democrats are attempting to rebrand a figure they pretty vehemently labeled a villain less than a decade ago. That effect may linger, even if we suspect that most members of the party are, as Allahpundit eloquently puts it, “ridiculous frauds whose standards of behavior turn entirely on the party identification of the president.”
Or the Senate candidate.
If the dems want to give Bush the blame becaue 9-11 happened "on his watch," and give Barry praise because the Seals killed bin Laden "on his watch," then Sanchez must be blamed for Abu Ghraib. He was the closest senior officer to the prison. He's also a disloyal ingrate. We should hang this around his neck.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRumsfeld in his book has praise for Sanchez, and felt that he was too junior for such an important posting and was not given the anywhere close to the staff support he needed.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI surely don't want another Dem in the Senate, but Sanchez had effectively had prison supervision removed from his duties. It was obvious in the Congressional hearings that had happened.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSanchez is being unfairly tarnished by association with Abu Ghraib. But it is the same party and many of the same people in the party who tarnished him and others, and are now trying to make him their (Democrat) nominee for Senate.
What we and Sanchez should be demanding is that those originators of slander and libel be forced to publically repudiate their own comments before being allowed to endorse Sanchez.
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