Gen Sanchez: My soldiers were abandoned on battlefield


	Gen Sanchez: My soldiers were abandoned on battlefield

masbury

6-2-2009 10:27 PM

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torture, sanchez

masbury says:

After calling for truth commission to investigate torture, Sanchez seems to suggest that the Bush administration hung soldiers out to dry by letting them take the fall for the Bush torture policy.

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