The Three Star War Czar

http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/6/8/1043/65844

The Three Star War Czar
by Jeff Huber tc3
Fri Jun 08, 2007 at 10:04:03 AM EST

The Maytag Repairman has nothing on Lieutenant General Douglas Lute. The newly nominated "War Czar" is about to become the loneliest man in the world.

During Lute's confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin (D-Michigan) told him that he would be, "responsible for bringing coherence to an incoherent policy, a policy that is still floundering after more than four years of war in Iraq."

Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island) said, "I just fear you are going to be placed in an impossible situation. It's another public relations play rather than a significant change in strategy."

Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) said, "You've been given a tough assignment. I share my colleagues' concern that a good man has been put in a very difficult spot."

Lute's in a difficult spot, all right. He's been ordered to march to the end of a long table and bend over.

BOHICA

Lute told the committee that: "America's at war, and the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan represent what we in the military call the main effort in the long war."

Translation: "America is losing two wars."

Lute has a record of having opposed the current surge strategy, and said the results so far have been uneven. "Conditions on the ground are deeply complex and are likely to continue to evolve, meaning that we will need to constantly adapt."

Translation: "I don't have a clue what's going on or what needs to be done."

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Will he be responsible for military strategy in both Iraq and Afghanistan? Is he the military commander over these 2 wars? Or, is he just a PR guy, responsible for formualting the message coming out of the government with respect to these 2 wars?

to be replaced by a Gunnery Sargent.