Posted on 05/06/2007 5:37:11 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
WASHINGTON - Now that the White House is searching for a "war czar," it begs the question of who has been coordinating U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan the past four years.
A team of West Wing players led by national security adviser Stephen Hadley has tried to keep turf-conscious agencies marching in the same direction on military, political and reconstruction fronts. A few Bush aides say privately, however, that the White House probably should have recruited someone to oversee the war effort a year ago.
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"The problem is not broad strategy and policy, it's that the bureaucracy is so inefficient and there's been so little follow-up that the machine doesn't work," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said. He believes red tape in Washington is the biggest obstacle to winning in Iraq.
Gingrich has joined others in suggesting that a single person report directly to Bush and perhaps the next president and ask: "What are the choke points? What regulations do we need to fix?"
Hadley said he wants to make sure that if any request from the war zone bogs down among agencies, there is someone who can speak for the president to get it solved quickly.
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"This is really more of a head cracker than a czar a bureaucracy cracker," said Michael O'Hanlon, a foreign policy analyst for the Brookings Institution who likes the idea.
"They want one point person to contact everyone else to tell them that we need these 17 things by Tuesday to comply with the president's top foreign policy priority," said O'Hanlon, a former adviser to the Iraq Study Group. The panel concluded that duplication and conflicting strategies at federal agencies were undermining confidence in U.S. policy.
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“Truth”???
You can’t handle the truth!
Let OUR GUYS take the gloves off and then You will see the truth, RAT-BACKER.
5.56mm
President Bush is not weak.
Man, you are one dumb SOB......
Read my comments again, and maybe with some assistance from your 2 year old, you MIGHT be able to see the SARCASM of what I posted.
Then again I doubt it, ya MORON.
Please tell us all that YOU aren’t registered to vote (or procreate).
For example, he does not resort to senseless namecalling despite the endless number of useless politicos he has to deal w/ on a daily basis.
“President Bush is not weak.”
IF you are correct, then PLEASE let US all know just HOW TRAITORS like REID, PELOSI, KENNEDY, DODD, and so on, can PAINT TARGETS on the backs of OUR TROOPS on a daily basis, with complete impunity?
I am not going to hold my breath awaiting your feeble “response”.
We have laws, the President is not a dictator. I’m sure Mr. Chavez would love your assistance if you prefer that form of government. More namecalling. How typical of the men of my generation. Passive aggressive behavior in guys is so disappointing.
You will see the truth, RAT-BACKER.
Man, you are one dumb SOB......
Then again I doubt it, ya MORON.
Please tell us all that YOU arent registered to vote (or procreate).
It's been a few years since I had a two year old in the house. I should have remembered that when they get this cranky it's best just to send them to bed and ignore their crying. You can't argue logically with a fussy baby.
The war has been consistently hampered by the ongoing battles between Defense, State, and half a dozen other agencies. Anybody who can either get them all to play nice together or force the ‘empire protectors’ to take a long walk off a short pier can’t do anything but help.
Give me a break!!
I see no problem with charging those that give AID, COMFORT and ENCOURAGEMENT to OUR ENEMIES during time of WAR as TRAITORS, finding them GUILTY and EXECUTING them.
YOU, on the other hand seem to think that to say so, is on par with YOUR POLITICAL PEER.
“YANKEE DUTCH”??
You are a fraud.
I’ll put MY DD-214 against yours ANY time.
Fraud? Of what sort? You are rude. The President has used the powers available to him to fight this war. I don’t even know what a DD-214 is, but given the fact that you seem to be compensating for the lack of something, I’ll assume it’s a gun. Very, very sad indeed. Another thing a real man never does to prove his true worth.
A DD-214 is proof of military service. I am grateful to all who have worn our countries uniform. Unfortunately, some see their service as a free pass to attack others and claim anyone who questions them is unpatriotic (see Murtha, Kerry, McCain).
You are a waste of time.
One, you’re a “newbie”.
Two, you obviously (and evidently) did not read (or comrehend)my “original” post in this thread.
Three, since you are totally ignorant of just what the hell a “DD-214” is, you are a waste of my time.
Get a clue, junior.
Thanks. I too am proud of them and have two cousins who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq. One is in Special Ops. They don’t waste their time with this sort of false bravado, that’s for sure!!! A little suspicious if you ask me, especially when feeling the need to accuse others of ‘fraud’, whatever that means in cyberspace. How silly.
Brute. Take your BS elsewhere, you sound like a useless thug to me. You are the Marine my mother warned me about. Bad apple in every few thousand I suppose.
So.....you see “attacking” Murtha, Kerry, and McCain for their ANTI-MILITARY, ANTI-AMERICA stances as something to be derided, Pan-Yan?
Very interesting.......
May I suggest that you have little “investment” in this country.....other than what is in it for you?
Your Mama obviously never actually knew a Marine.
In racing terms, you need an informational pit stop. Don’t buy all the negativism. Yes, we, including our CIC can do better. Instead of cursing our leader and Country, pray for them. And get involved with the GOE.
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