Retired Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, along with Vince Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and author Ron Suskind appeared in a New York City theater last night for a discussion hosted by Rachel Maddow. General Sanchez is the former V Corps commander of coalition forces in Iraq.
In that discussion Sanchez said, "I support the formation of a truth commission" to get to the bottom of of the abuses and torture that occurred in Iraq. Afterwards, he said such a commission was necessary for " ... the American people to really know what happened (...) this was an institutional failure, a personal failure on the part of many. (...) If we do not find out what happened, then we are doomed to repeat it."
This is not the first time General Sanchez has called for "criminal prosecution actions." In a little noticed appearance on the Rachel Maddow Show he called for investigations into the "abuse and in fact torture" in Iraq.
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