Talk:Ricardo Sanchez

message: Link to Macon Telegraph is broken, should be fixed, deleted, or replaced. Pustelnik (talk) 14:09, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Referrences

message: I served with Sanchez in Germany, during the late 1980s. I was a platoon leader in 3-8 Cavalry, Second Brigade, Third Armored Division. He was a major when I was a lieutenant. That may sound like a huge difference in rank but really, he was only an O-4 when I was an O-2, so it wasn't a huge difference. Regardless, I had almost daily interaction with Sanchez. Later, when I was on staff, I saw much more of him than I really wanted to see. Sanchez was not well liked. He had a reputation for unethical conduct. He was perceived as being a ruthless careerist who would do anything to get ahead. If you stood in his way, he could be quite abusive. He had his followers but in general, most officers, even ones of his own rank, didn't think much of him personally. When I found out that he was selected as the ground forces commander in Iraq, I remember telling anyone that I talked to “just wait for a war crime to be committed and that it would somehow involve Sanchez.” Unfortunately, I was right.  --  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Klackenfus (talk • contribs)  10:47, 2006 June 5 
:Interesting.  Consistent with his attempts to get Janis Karpinksi and Carolyn Wood to take the heat for him.  --  Geo Swan 18:32, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As someone in another service branch in the 80s, I recall ruthless careerism among officers was the norm, not the exception. Altho that too seemed antithetical to the general state of panic & disarray that prevailed: all that incessant training, but when reality struck, it was panic, panic, panic, shout, shout, Charlie out; let the s**t hit the fan, just keep it off me. Corollary to the ruthless careerism was the utter obliviousness to the fact they were harming their careers: take the credit, spread the blame. BTW, Karpinski wrote in her book that Lt.Gen. Sanchez moved his 1st Army Div. without orders, just before OIF commenced: he had to be ordered to return to Germany from Italy. Anybody to corroborate that? 138.162.128.52 (talk) 17:28, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

text: The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was Move.  —Wknight94 (talk) 12:22, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Veteran, served with Sanchez

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*Support.--Húsönd 01:24, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: how does one go directly from being a division commander to corps commander? that how it usually happens in the U.S. Army or was this guy considered on some kinda fast track? Mct mht 02:29, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  bio 

message: I think this is inadequate, and possibly intentionally biased, summary of Sanchez' public criticism. It does mention his criticism of the press and partisan politics, but it misses another crux of his comments: The need to use political and economic as well as military means, if something is to be achieved in Iraq. He positively harped on this, it filled over a third of his speech of 12 October 2007, and it is his main thread of criticism of current US government policy in Iraq. 
84.194.241.224 13:09, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  criticism of political leadership 

message: Contrary to what generals have traditionally done after retirement, Sanchez has tried hard to suck up to the Democratic party, perhaps in hopes of a position in a new Democratic administration. On November 24, 2007 General Sanchez gave the Democratic "response" to Bush's regular saturday radio broadcast. This, in my mind, takes him out of the 'non-political military man'class and lands him squarely into the Democrats corner. This would be just as unseemly if he jumped into the Republicans corner. It seems to me that the quality of our military leadership over the last 20 years or so as gone in the toilet. The last admirable General I can remember was "Stormin' Norman". Retired, wrote his book, and then shut the hell up. Admirable.75.164.153.79 (talk) 00:14, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sanchez becomes an open Democratic politician

message: These two sentences stand out as particularly odd in my opinion: "Sanchez was promoted only because of affirmative action; aborn into a poor Mexican American family in Rio Grande City, Texas. During the Vietnam conflict (1969-73), Sanchez was in college."  The first, of course, contains a spelling & grammatical error- an easy fix.  But both sentences suffer from POV bias and should be reworked entirely.  If no one has objections or suggestions, I'll do it.The Original Historygeek (talk) 19:45, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Early life info

message: Article currently says birthdate is September 9, 1953; his autobiography says 1951. (Only have online link to Spanish-language edition; but saw same info in English language edition.) 
* Djembayz (talk) 02:25, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthdate discrepancy