While the Democrats debated the war, the man who commanded U.S.-led coalition forces during the first year of the war says the U.S. can forget about winning in Iraq. In his first interview since retirement, Army Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez told Agence France-Presse: “I think if we do the right things politically and economically with the right Iraqi leadership we could still salvage at least a stalemate, if you will — not a stalemate but at least stave off defeat.” Sanchez is the highest-ranking former military leader yet to suggest the Bush administration has fallen short in Iraq.