Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Czar Czar da War

We've got a "Drug War Czar," we might as well have a "War War Czar," President Bush's GI Joe set told him. But nobody'll take the job.

The White House wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with authority to issue directions to the Pentagon, the State Department and other agencies, but it has had trouble finding anyone able and willing to take the job, according to people close to the situation.


They're trying to get somebody who will be the person they point to for the rest of this term and say, "He did it."What kind of numbnuts is going to take that job? (Rumsfeld probably would.) Those guys agree, and point out that we already a have a a "War Czar" - it's the Commander in Chief. (Otherwise known as Czar Decider the Firstest.)

What this guy said:

"The very fundamental issue is, they don't know where the hell they're going," said retired Marine Gen. John J. "Jack" Sheehan, a former top NATO commander who was among those rejecting the job.


Fundamental issue since January, 2001.

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