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Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez

Jan-13-2004 » Filed Under: Iraq News

Another NYT reporter, John Burns, has a great profile of Lt. Gen. Sanchez, commander of all allied forces in Iraq. Sanchez discusses his background as well as the remaining challenges for U.S. forces in Iraq. Excerpt:

"It's about gaining and retaining the consent of the people," General Sanchez said to the officers who gathered in front of a satellite map of the Abu Saida area in the dim interior of the command post. "That's what we're here for, fighting a war, and building a nation."

It is a task that General Sanchez believes is within grasp. In a conversation at his headquarters in the Republican Palace in Baghdad a few days before the trip to Abu Saida, he said that despite the scale of warfare that has disappointed and even shocked many Americans, allied forces here could fail only if the political will of the United States faltered. "I really believe that the only way we are going to lose here, is if we walk away from it like we did in Vietnam," he said. "If the political will fails, and the support of the American public fails, that's the only way we can lose."

(article via Just One Minute)


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