How about a Peace Czar? (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette LTTE)

AlinPA

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Mon Apr-23-07 01:35 PM
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How about a Peace Czar? (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette LTTE)

Short LTTE today in the Pitt. Post-Gazette:

Looking for czars on all the wrong bases

Wrong again, President Bush.

Instead of looking for a "War Czar" ("Iraq Point Man Sought," April 12), did you ever consider looking for a "Peace Czar"?

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YOY

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Mon Apr-23-07 01:38 PM
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1. You do realize that they picked "War Czar" because Secretary of Offense was too blatant

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yurbud

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Mon Apr-23-07 01:47 PM
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5. I do think we should separate Offense and Defense like football teams do--would make things a lot

clearer.

The Dept. of Defense would cover the US out to the edge of our territorial waters.

Everything else would be Dept. of Offense, and would have a separate budget.

So someone could support a strong defense without spending a penny on offense.

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liberal N proud

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Mon Apr-23-07 01:38 PM
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2. Bu$h is a war president he isn't going to have any of this peace shit

Peace is for pansies and little george is still trying to prove to big george and the Quaker Oats man that he is a man.

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wicket

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Mon Apr-23-07 01:42 PM
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3. Wasn't the Secretary of Defense once called the Secretary of War?

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Jeff In Milwaukee

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Mon Apr-23-07 02:30 PM
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Up until shortly after WW II

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wicket

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Tue Apr-24-07 07:42 AM
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9. Thanks!

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Jeff In Milwaukee

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Tue Apr-24-07 08:12 AM
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10. Technically...

I believe the Secretary of War became the Secretary of the Army (and demoted from cabinet level status). The Secretary of Defense was a "new" position with cabinet level status. But all of that happened in 1947.

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yurbud

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Mon Apr-23-07 01:45 PM
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4. as long as he has the right to wiretap, disappear people, and torture them, and someone would profit

I think that's the only way Bush would go for it.

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Robbien

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Mon Apr-23-07 01:49 PM
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6. Websters says

Czar: Any person having great or unlimited power over others; autocrat

Sad how easily these days we use Russian titles used during times of absolute rule, despotism.

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Jeff In Milwaukee

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Mon Apr-23-07 02:30 PM
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7. I've got it -- How about a Department of Peace?

Wouldn't it be great if somebody in Washington would propose something like that?

Kucinich fans, check in.

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niyad

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Mon Apr-23-07 02:30 PM
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8. peace czar seems a bit oxymoronic, doesn't it? minister of peace? shaman of peace? protector of

peace? promoter of peace, pehaps?

I find it a bit ironic that the r's use the title of, in essence, a dictator, for their various little positions--drug czar, war czar, etc. reminds me of an article in SPY many years ago, about how the US and the USSR were seeming to change places. that was one of the things pointed out.

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PurityOfEssence

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Tue Apr-24-07 10:41 AM
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11. I wonder when they're going to start their "war on war"...

That would be consistent.

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