Comments on: No Takers For Bush "War Czar"

The Skinny: Top Generals Not Interested In Becoming Overseer Of U.S. War Efforts

[kpokey]

Isn't this the President's job? Commander in Chief, i.e. War Czar? What does this man do except screw up everything? I guess he is now outsourcing his own job!!!! What an idiot.

[macusweil]

"Read the Special Inspector General's report on Iraq Reconstruction to understand the need for such an office." Yeah it's called the Secretary of Defense.

[nyckate]

LOL - Isn't this kinda like the Captain of the Titanic asking for a replacement just after his ship has hit the iceberg??

What's Bush's selling point on the position - offer to personally share jail cells or something??

On the good news front perhaps alittle reality has sunk into Bush's Delusional World - now they/he know that pretty everyone distrusts them and not a sinner has faith in their competency!!

[grazinggoat]

Why not Bush? Send him to Iraq. Hell, give him a rifle and let him finally fight that war he ran from in 1968.
Posted by Nancy_Naive at 12:18 PM : Apr 11, 2007

-So simple, yet so true!

[passerby2]

"Someone needs to tell Steve Hadley that position is filled, it's the commander in chief, unless the decider's become the delegator," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill.

[homespunlady]

On the voter fraud article there was quite a bit left out in this article from one I read earlier. There also were questions on why the report had to be "changed", if the changes were "political", why one of the 2 Democratic members LEFT the investigation and why the part of the investigation addressing VOTER MACHINE FRAUD WAS DELETED.

[misha131]

War czar is probably a bad name. However; the concept of someone managing and coordinating day to day the various departments, State, Defense, Commerce (USAID), etc in the efforts supporting the troops on the ground including reconstruction (shared buy State, Defense and USAID), administration and other efforts is needed. Read the Special Inspector General's report on Iraq Reconstruction to understand the need for such an office.

[macusweil]

Simply put- Bush just wants to abdicate and outsource his role as Commander in Chief. It's obvious he himself knows he's lame & incompetent, a complete failure.

[antoniof123]

Some of your responses are just fantastic. What a way to run a war now he can not even get a general to go there what next? Maybe we could send all the cons over there and they could join in the fight in fact let them fight.

[harp1963]

"Men desire authority for its own sake that they may bear a rule, command and control other men, and live uncommanded and uncontrolled themselves" (St. Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort).

[ne_patriot7]

War Czar.?? This administration is sounding more like a street gang every day with its warlords. What a step backwards to pre WWII when we had a Secretary of War.

Besides this farce, our esteemed "Intelligence Czar" and "War on Drugs Czar" aren't doing jack sh*t except costing the taxpayer a hefty salary.
When a kid with "too much" marijuana can be arrested for "intent to sell" and put away for 20 years, while at the same time US Attorney Sutton lets go mexican drug smugglers bring in several hundred pounds of the same drug and instead prosecutes the border agents that confronted him, something is radically failing in our "justice" system..

Here's another story on the AP wire this morning:
"WASHINGTON %u2014 The struggle to entice Army soldiers and Marines to stay in the military, after four years of war in Iraq, has ballooned into a $1 billion campaign, with bonuses soaring nearly sixfold since 2003."

Looks like our "volunteer" army is being groomed to become our "mercenary army". I'm sure it's great for moral when the platoon sergeant gets 3 grand to re-up and the next week the cpl. under him gets 30 grand to re-up. Yea..

Bush has so f*cked up everything in this country, it is doubtful things can be fixed even over the next 8 administrations.

[lochlan-2009]

Nobody wants it because they know when the Dems take control all the free tax payer money is going to be gone.

[nordeck52]

War czar, huh? This title sounds a bit too imperialistic to me. The imperial presidency that has existed since Word War II is gaining ground again. What's the next step, the American Empire? I sincerely hope not, but then, I'm beginning to wonder lately.

[frankly6]

"The very fundamental issue is, they don't know where the hell they're going," said Sheehan, a former top NATO commander. Sheehan said he believes that hawks like Vice President Cheney have more influence in the White House than those looking for a way out of Iraq. "So rather than go over there, develop an ulcer and eventually leave, I said, 'No, thanks.' "


This is just a blatant and public statement of what we all have been knowing for sometime now. We have been led into a disasterous and unnecessary war by a group of arrogant incompetents who don't have a clue and don't want one.

[inventagod]

I am amazed Bu$h didn't 'appoint' his buddy Brownie to the position while Congress took their vacation...

[clestes-2009]

This should come as no surprise to the whitehouse.

[homespunlady]

Isn't that kind of appointment something Congress needs to be told about. Oh, I forgot, Bush thinks Congress is irrelevant!

I enjoy inane humor but this idea is one for the political cartoonists to have a field day on.

I'd like to suggest he hold a CONTEST. Anyone that wants the job can meet him in downtown Baghdad in on April 28th to walk around freely as McCain says can be done and save the Impeach Bush Rally people the trouble.

Now, who's up to nominate a volunteer for the position.

[ckcool192000]

If retired generals of the US military doesn't want the job of overseeing the forces in the middle east, shouldn't that tell Bush something about what the citizens of this country feel about this "war"?

Wake up and smell the coffee Bush, no one wants to be responsible for this war of which you lied to the american citizens about the reason to go to war.

Where are all the diehard republicans now? Where are all the Bush supporters that he had a couple of years ago when he was re-elected? I guess now they are running for the "bushes". I would hide too if I had once supported the Bush dictatorship.

[inventagod]

Um, that position has been poorly filled already.
It would be called 'the president'...

Guess Bu$h is ready to step down???

[wayfedup]

This sounds like a job for Donald Rumsfeld!
He's ALREADY PROVEN himself to be COMPLETELY INCOMPETENT, JUST LIKE HIS BOSS!(BUSH)