{"id":2890,"date":"2011-04-18T15:52:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T15:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2011-04-18T15:52:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T15:52:12","slug":"do_we_really_want_this_man_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2890","title":{"rendered":"Do We Really Want This Man In The Senate ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Ed Morrissey at <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2011\/04\/17\/from-abu-ghraib-to-the-darling-of-progressives\/\">Hot Air<\/a>, Texas Democrats have asked retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez to run for the Senate in Texas.&nbsp; Who is Lt. Gen. Sanchez?&nbsp;&nbsp; He was in charge of the military theatre that included&nbsp;Abu Ghraib during the time prisoners were mistreated there.&nbsp; Yes, I said mistreated.&nbsp; Although what went on there was totally inappropriate, I don&#8217;t think it rises to the level of torture.&nbsp; Cutting innocent reporter&#8217;s heads off and kidnapping people is torture.&nbsp; Abu Ghraib was an example of inexplicable stupidity and cruelty.&nbsp; At the time, however, the Democrats called for the removal of everyone in the chain of command up to Donald Rumsfeld.&nbsp; Now they want to run a member of that chain of command for Senate.&nbsp; My how times change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/06\/01\/gen-ricardo-sanchez-calls-for-war-crimes-truth-commission\/\">Thinkprogress.org<\/a>&nbsp;reported on June 1, 2009:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Sanchez described the interrogation program as &#8220;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jack-hidary\/general-rick-sanchez-call_b_209573.html\"><em>a personal failure<\/em><\/a><em> on the part of many.&#8221; Indeed, Sanchez himself <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/safefree\/general\/17561lgl20050329.html\"><em>wrote and signed a 2003 memo<\/em><\/a><em> 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 <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A39851-2004May19_3.html\"><em>denied<\/em><\/a><em> signing off on these interrogation methods.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It will be interesting to see what Texas voters do with this candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, Texas Democrats have asked retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez to run for the Senate in Texas.&nbsp; Who is Lt. Gen. Sanchez?&nbsp;&nbsp; He was in charge of the military theatre that included&nbsp;Abu Ghraib during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2890\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}