Man in charge when Saddam captured remembers

FULLERTON -Ricardo S. Sanchez readily admits he signed on with the military to get away from the poverty of southern Texas' Star County, a plot on the map that perennially tops the list of the United States' poorest areas.

A few decades later, Sanchez had worked his way to becoming a three-star lieutenant general in the U.S. Army, commanding nearly 180,000 personnel from 36 different countries during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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