Just when you thought the whole story couldn't get any worse for Bernard Kerik, the disgraced former NYC police commissioner and would-have been U.S. homeland security secretary:
Former Iraq correspondent Stephanie Gaskell breaks a story in the Daily News quoting retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top military leader in Iraq from June 2003 to June 2004, saying Kerik's effort to train Iraqi police five years ago "a waste of time and effort." There was talk of police raids to liberate prostitutes, oddities with supplies, and a lack of understanding of the tasks at hand on behalf of the ex-commish, according to Sanchez, who has a book coming out.
Part of Kerik's response, as quoted, is that he didn't have much regard for Sanchez's approach, which he charges was too distant from what Iraqis needed. Kerik still faces federal corruption charges stemming from his dealings as a city commissioner, in a case complicated by the dismissal of his lawyer to avoid a potential conflict of interest.
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So let me get this straight "Bernie Kerupt" was a corporal or some low level dog trainer in the army he critizes a career army officer who is a three star general and by all accounts a masterful tactition. "Bernie Kerupt" ran away after 3 months but while he was there he bought guns at exorbitant rates not on GSA scale and "liberated" prostitutes. He must have thought he was rescuing his mother. "Bernie Kerupt's" first book was titled "The Lost Son My life In The Pursuit Of Justice" his second book will be titled "The Lost Son My Life Being Pursed By The Justice Department".