Delta Force Founder: Bush may have started WWIII

The Raw Story is reporting that the Los Angeles Daily News will run a story tomorrow featuring quotes from a founding member of the Delta Force counter-terrorist unit on the current state of American foreign policy. In the article, Retired Command Sergeant Major Eric Haney discusses the Iraq war, and the Bush administration's use of torture, saying that "[y]ou don't gain intelligence that way. Everyone in the world knows that."

"Q: What's your assessment of the war in Iraq?

A: Utter debacle. But it had to be from the very first. The reasons were wrong. The reasons of this administration for taking this nation to war were not what they stated. (Army Gen.) Tommy Franks was brow-beaten and ... pursued warfare that he knew strategically was wrong in the long term. That's why he retired immediately afterward. His own staff could tell him what was going to happen afterward.

We have fomented civil war in Iraq. We have probably fomented internecine war in the Muslim world between the Shias and the Sunnis, and I think Bush may well have started the third world war, all for their own personal policies." [The Raw Story]

"Delta Force founder: Bush may have started World War III." [The Raw Story]