Ricardo Sanchez
Ricardo Sanchez
Ricardo Sánchezis a former United States Army lieutenant general who stood as a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for the U.S. Senate election in 2012 for the seat of retiring Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison...
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In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions. It became painfully obvious that the executive branch of our government did not trust its military. It relied instead on a neoconservative ideology developed by men and women with little, if any, military experience. Some senior military leaders did not challenge civilian decision makers at the appropriate times, and the courageous few who did take a stand were subsequently forced out of the service.
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We will find him at some point. Wherever the intelligence takes us,
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At this point in time, there's no reported exchange of fire,
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We will not let a small group of criminals and thugs control the destiny of this country,
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I am fully committed to thorough and impartial investigations that examine the role, commissions and omissions of the entire chain of command, and that includes me.
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But this is exactly where we want to fight them. ...This will prevent the American people from having to go through their attacks back in the United States.
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Sir, when I saw the pictures I was absolutely sickened by them. I thought I was going to throw up.
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We are taking the fight into the safe havens of the enemy in the heartland of the country, where we continue to face former regime loyalists, criminals and foreign terrorists,
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I think clearly the number of wounded, also the number of engagements over the past three weeks, have been a little bit higher than we've seen before,
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I think the enemy has shown he has adapted, he's shown he's willing to use just about any means to attack the Iraqi people,
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If it's actionable intelligence and we believe that there may be substance to that tip, we go ahead and conduct operations against, and that's just one of those cases,
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He was a tired man, ... Also, I think, a man resigned to his fate.
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to free other people and to let them enjoy the freedoms that we have become accustomed to since the founding of our nation.
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What we're seeing is that unmistakably the number of engagements per day are increasing,