News Article: "Wanted: 'Czar' to run US wars"

• Obersturmfuhrer

  12 Apr 07, 14:15

  WASHINGTON - The White House wants to appoint a high-profile overseer to manage the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but has had trouble finding someone to take the job, The Washington Post reported yesterday.
  
  At least three retired four-star generals approached by the White House in recent weeks have turned down the position, it said.
  
  The war "czar" would report directly to United States President Geroge W Bush and netional security advisor Stephan Hadley and would have authority to issue directions to the Pentagon and the State Department, the newspaper said.
  
  Retired Marine Gen John "Jack" Sheehan, a former NATO commander, was among those who rejected the job.
  
  "The very fundamental issue is, they don't know where the hell they're going," he was quoted as saying. - Agencies

  News article dated 12 April in TODAY paper.
  
  The position sounds like a powerful one and even though they're looking at retired Generals, sounds like a 5-star general position in the making.
• Arapahoe

  13 Apr 07, 00:15

  Its a Program Manager for Iraq.....who wants to take a jobs.
  
  i am surprise nobody in pentagon want to take this jobs.
• Cro-Magnon

  13 Apr 07, 15:11

  I doubt any high ranking general with good profile will want to take this job.
  
  If anything goes wrong, they will have to answer... and I think perhaps Bush is trying to find a scape goat to blame for the wars when US troops filanlly pull out of Iraq.
• M551Sheridian

  14 Apr 07, 07:57

  american tech is good look at thier weapons but its those politicians tat are stupid anyhow attack no strategy de to hell wif those politicians
• beavan

  14 Apr 07, 11:51

  no, they have very good military strategy when they go to war. but the aftermath is their weak point.
• OldBird69

  15 Apr 07, 11:47

  Yep, nobody is crazy enough to take the job. The outcome in Iraq is bad at best, catastrophic at worst.
  It is in line with terms politicians like, like "Drug Czar" (counter narcotics), "Homeland Security Czar" etc only creates more bureacracy/confusion.
  Aren't there enough people running the mess in Iraq already - Defense Sec, CIA, Sec of State, US Ambassador, White House, CentCom, Commander Multinational Force (Gen Petreaus) + others?
• Arapahoe

  20 Apr 07, 02:43

  Originally posted by OldBird69:

  Yep, nobody is crazy enough to take the job. The outcome in Iraq is bad at best, catastrophic at worst.
  It is in line with terms politicians like, like "Drug Czar" (counter narcotics), "Homeland Security Czar" etc only creates more bureacracy/confusion.
  Aren't there enough people running the mess in Iraq already - Defense Sec, CIA, Sec of State, US Ambassador, White House, CentCom, Commander Multinational Force (Gen Petreaus) + others?

  the laterest to joint in Democrats.