Posted on 05/15/2007 1:59:56 PM PDT by HAL9000
BUSH CHOOSES LT. GEN. DOUGLAS LUTE NEW 'WAR CZAR' TO OVERSEE CONFLICTS IN IRAQ,AFGHANISTAN--ABC NEWS
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Is this a good thing? No clue who he is.
Well, unlike Gen Petraius, hopefully this guy has some combat experience.
I graduated a year ahead of him in HS.
http://www.michigancityin.com/articles/2007/04/15/news/n2.txt
Just what we need -— another layer of bureaucracy.
Like with the Homeland Security czar — which didn’t even know about the Ft. Dix plot. Maybe that store clerk should be promoted to HSD czar.
Now, Bush has someone to pass the buck to on war issues. (Wasn’t that the purpose of having a SecDef?)
What am I missing here??
Not 100 percent sure, but I think he will be immediately promoted to his fourth star before he starts the job.
Isn’t this guy supposed to be more of an expeditor, finding and untying knots in the bureaucracy?
You’re not thinking like a politician. Go bang your head against a brick wall for a minute and then revisit the issue.
IN time of conflict, why not simply change the Sec Def to Sec War?
We’re gonna need a czar to oversee all the czars.
Looks like combat to me
In 2003, Petraeus, then a major general, commanded the 101st Airborne Division during V Corps’s drive to Baghdad. In a campaign chronicled in detail by Rick Atkinson of the Washington Post’s book In the Company of Soldiers, Petraeus led his division through the battles of Karbala, Hilla, and Najaf (where he came under fire during an ambush by Iraqi paramilitary forces). etc. etc.
One of those darn problems being born in 1952. late 70s - 80s no major combat wars.
That’s too “aggressive” sounding (we sacked the Secretary of War in 1947) for our oh-so-delicate liberal friends. Remember, Denny “Spock” Kucinich wants to create a Secretary of Peas.
Huh?? Petraeus commanded the 101st Airborne Division in 2003 during the Iraq invasion and during the occupation before going on to his present assignment.
Military intelligence. Dry ice. Jumbo Shrimp. See a pattern?
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