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Ricardo S. Sanchez

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Military Personnel

The Resume

    (1953- )
    Born in Rio Grande City, Texas
    Lt. General
    Head of the Army V Corps (2003-06)
    Commander of the Coalition ground forces in Iraq (June, 2003-June, 2004)

Why he might be annoying:

    According to 'Fiasco,' he and Paul Bremer, the top civilian official in the occupation of Iraq, rarely communicated.
    He was replaced as commander in Iraq after the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal broke.
    He signed a memo authorizing the use of coercive interrogation techniques banned by the Geneva Convention (September 14, 2003).
    He called the ACLU, who had obtained the memo, 'a bunch of sensationalist liars, I mean, lawyers.'
    He had doubts about the Bush administration's conduct of the war but did not speak out until after he was retired.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was named a Distinguished Military Graduate, meaning he was in the top 10% of all ROTC cadets in the nation.
    During Operation Desert Storm, he led his battalion to Basra without losing a man.
    He was the highest-ranking Hispanic in the US Army.
    He criticized partisan wrangling over the war in Iraq, saying, 'The unmistakable message was that political power had a greater priority than our national security objectives.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 20 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 8 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 72 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 38 Votes: 39.47% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 119 Votes: 54.62% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 204 Votes: 63.24% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 35 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 88 Votes: 35.23% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 32 Votes: 65.62% Annoying