Former Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who oversaw coalition forces in Iraq before retiring in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, is running for Senate in Texas as a Democrat. ....

Sanchez has been critical of U.S. military strategy in Iraq since retiring, particularly the so-called troop surge. He has also written a book and sketched out a political philosophy. In interviews he has called himself a "progressive" and a fiscal conservative.