It's not what BO said, and you don't need Senate confirmation for that sort of thing. I'm not sure it's needed for an assignment below unified and specified command leve. Plus the service chiefs.
But Obama said it did, and The Won cannot be Wrong, so it must.. right?
well you may be right. Just got this from WSJ article:
“Obama and Petraeus then met privately for 40 minutes. The president asked him to step down as head of the Central Command, which is based in Florida, and take over day-to-day control of the Afghan war.
The president’s advisers said that Petraeus agreed to do so, but that it was clear to Obama that it came “at some great personal sacrifice.” Asked to describe it, one senior administration official said: “Tampa to Kabul.”
(It will be interesting who takes over CENTCOM...)