Quiet Bush Aide Seeks Iraq Czar, Creating a Stir

[cal04]

Stephen J. Hadley would be the first to tell you he does not have star power. But Mr. Hadley, the bespectacled, gray-haired, exceedingly precise Washington lawyer who is President Bush’s national security adviser, is in the market for someone who does — with the hope of saving Iraq.

Mr. Hadley is interviewing candidates, including military generals, for a new high-profile job that people in Washington are calling the war czar. The official (Mr. Hadley, ever cautious, prefers “implementation and execution manager”) would brief Mr. Bush every morning on Iraq and Afghanistan, then prod cabinet secretaries into carrying out White House orders.

It is the kind of task — a little bit of internal diplomacy and a lot of head-knocking, fortified by direct access to the president — that would ordinarily fall to Mr. Hadley himself. After all, he oversaw the review that produced Mr. Bush’s troop buildup in Iraq. But his responsibilities encompass issues around the globe, and he has concluded that he needs someone “up close to the president” to work “full time, 24/7” to put the policy into effect. He hopes to fill the job soon.

“What we need,” he said in a recent interview, “is someone with a lot of stature within the government who can make things happen.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/washington/30hadley.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[NNadir]

1. What's Paul Bremer doing these days? Maybe he wants his old job back.

[ellenfl]

2. where do i get an application? after all, i am probably

more qualified than anyone the admin will put in the position. :sarcasm: how hard can it be to tell dubya what he wants to hear?

ellen fl

[Grandrose]

3. War Czar ????

Bush always bragging about being Commander-in-Chief and letting the Generals on the ground make the decisions...why in the world would he need a War Czar?? I guess he is losing faith/trust in Petraeus, the so called insurgency genius?
Oh, I get it, someone to pass the buck to, guess he's no President Truman!!!:eyes:

[Peace Patriot]

4. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again--to kill, to create chaos, to steal that oil!

What the hell is going on here, a) that they need a "war czar"--to arbitrate the war in the White House????, and b) that our benighted party leadership is giving them time to re-group about keeping the blood and mayhem coming for another year, two years, ad infinitum....?!

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE??!!

[intaglio]

5. also at this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2828041&mesg_id=2828041

[Demeter]

6. They Ought to HIre a Dominatrix

To beat some sense into Georgie Porgie.