While the politicians espouse their rhetoric designed to preserve their reputations and their political power, our soldiers die! - Ricardo Sanchez

Praise be to the Lord, my rock, who trains my fingers for battle and my hands for war.

[The Abu Ghraib prison scandal is] the key reason, the sole reason, that I was forced to retire. I was essentially not offered another position in either a three-star or four-star command.

The death knell of your ethics has been enabled by your parent organizations who have chosen to align themselves with political agendas. What is clear to me is that you are perpetuating the corrosive partisan politics that is destroying our country and killing our servicemen who are at war.