Sanchez: Bernie Kerik’s time in Iraq was ‘a waste of time and effort.’
By on May 5th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Sanchez: Bernie Kerik’s time in Iraq was ‘a waste of time and effort.’
In an interview with the New York Daily News, the former top U.S. commander in Iraq, retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, said former NYC Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik’s efforts to train Iraqi police in 2003 were “a waste of time and effort.” Kerik, who was once nominated by President Bush to be the Secretary of Homeland Security, served as the interim minister of interior in Iraq for roughly 90 days. During that time, Sanchez said Kerik focused more on “conducting raids and liberating prostitutes” than training the Iraqis. Sanchez himself has also been criticized for his performance in Iraq, especially his handling of the Abu Ghraib scandal. (HT: TPMmuckraker)
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add money and lives to the list and you’ve just described America’s time in Iraq as well…
May 5th, 2008 at 4:07 pmSaid one assclown, about the other…
But seriously, wouldn’t the same be true about all the time we’ve spent in Iraq??
May 5th, 2008 at 4:08 pmThe whole criminal enterprise of the Bush gangsters in occupying Afghanistan and Iraq has been a total waste of time, money and blood…
May 5th, 2008 at 4:09 pmKerik focused more on “conducting raids and liberating prostitutes”???
What? Was he liberating them by killing their pimps? I don’t think Kerik was above USEING said liberated prostitutes at all. He might have been testing some for the republican convention coming up soon here.
May 5th, 2008 at 4:16 pmLiberating Prostitutes – did they at least shower him with flowers and sweets?
PEACE
May 5th, 2008 at 4:23 pmHeh. That retarded lump Bernie Kerik’s time ANYWHERE is a “waste of time and effort.”
May 5th, 2008 at 4:27 pmKerik is a waste of skin.
May 5th, 2008 at 4:29 pm“Sanchez said Kerik focused more on ‘conducting raids and liberating prostitutes’ than training the Iraqis.”
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Now I get it — he was promised that he could liberate all the prostitutes he wanted over there…
May 5th, 2008 at 4:34 pmNotice all the “finger-pointing” going on lately, whether Sanchez or Feith or any of that bunch? Running scared, me thinks. And if “liberating prostitutes” is anything like liberating Iraqis, I wonder how many of them were killed? These people are all full of the same stuff that McCain’s looking through for a pony in that room.
May 5th, 2008 at 4:58 pmLiberating prostitutes? Paging Doctor Spitzer…Dr. Elliot Spitzer please call the Operator…
May 5th, 2008 at 5:01 pmBernie is a complete waste of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, space and time!!!!
May 5th, 2008 at 5:17 pmBernie is a classic case of a dooshbag republican asswipe propped up in a position he has no qualifications for and winds up stepping on his own dick.
May 5th, 2008 at 7:40 pm