In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on May 19, 2004, Commander of ground forces in Iraq, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, said: ” ‘As the senior commander in Iraq, I accept responsibility for what happened at Abu Ghraib, and I accept as a solemn obligation the responsibility to ensure that it does not happen again.’ ”
– Ricardo S. Sanchez with Donald T. Phillips, Wiser in Battle, Page 390