This poll ran from March 24 to 30, 2008.

Mondo Stars Poll Results

"The Iraq war is a nightmare with no end in sight." True 1435/69% False 657/31%

Votes: 2092

Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the former top commander of American troops in Iraq, as quoted by David S. Cloud in the article "Ex-Commander Says Iraq Effort Is 'a Nightmare'" from the October 13, 2007 edition of The New York Times.

Cloud writes: "In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq, the former top commander of American forces there called the George W. Bush administration's handling of the war "incompetent" and said the result was "a nightmare with no end in sight."

"Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, who retired in 2006 after being replaced in Iraq after the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, blamed the Bush administration for a "catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic war plan" and denounced the current addition of American forces as a "desperate" move that would not achieve long-term stability.

"After more than four years of fighting, America continues its desperate struggle in Iraq without any concerted effort to devise a strategy that will achieve victory in that war-torn country or in the greater conflict against extremism," General Sanchez said at a gathering of military reporters and editors in Arlington, Va.

"He is the most senior war commander of a string of retired officers who have harshly criticized the administration's conduct of the war. While much of the previous condemnation has been focused on the role of former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, General Sanchez's was an unusually broad attack on the overall course of the war."

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