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Ex-US Commander in Iraq Bashes Bush in Memoir

President once proclaimed, 'Kick ass!'

By Jonas Oransky, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 2, 2008 12:11 PM CDT

(Newser) – Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who led US forces in Iraq for a year after Saddam’s ouster, says George W. Bush “led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions” in a memoir the Washington Post deems “lost in the media furor”... Read full story »

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