According to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, Texas Democrats have asked retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez to run for the Senate in Texas. Who is Lt. Gen. Sanchez? He was in charge of the military theatre that included Abu Ghraib during the time prisoners were mistreated there. Yes, I said mistreated. Although what went on there was totally inappropriate, I don't think it rises to the level of torture. Cutting innocent reporter's heads off and kidnapping people is torture. Abu Ghraib was an example of inexplicable stupidity and cruelty. At the time, however, the Democrats called for the removal of everyone in the chain of command up to Donald Rumsfeld. Now they want to run a member of that chain of command for Senate. My how times change.
Thinkprogress.org reported on June 1, 2009:
"Sanchez described the interrogation program as "a personal failure on the part of many." Indeed, Sanchez himself wrote and signed a 2003 memo that included specific interrogation tactics approved for use despite noting that they may violate the Geneva Conventions. In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sanchez denied signing off on these interrogation methods."
It will be interesting to see what Texas voters do with this candidate.
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