In White House Plan, War 'Czar' Would Cut Through Bureaucracy

[bemildred]

Some major league butt-covering being planned here. You got this? A new layer of bureaucracy is going to cut through all the bureaucracy. Notice that Newt has his snout shoved deep into this too.

Edit: Notice the sorry way the blame for the war is being shifted to our government employees here too. It is not Bush and his pig-ignorant minions that screwed it up, nooooo. It's nameless inefficient government "bureaucrats".

When the commanding general in Iraq needed people for a rule-of-law initiative, he had to send a memo to the U.S. Central Command. That command forwarded it to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Joint Chiefs forwarded it to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Only then was it passed along to the White House to find the people.

That would change under a plan developed by President Bush's aides to create a high-powered "czar" to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The new "execution manager," as the White House termed the position, would be empowered to cut through the bureaucracy and talk directly with Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, and other key figures to figure out what is needed to make progress on the ground.

A copy of the White House proposal, obtained by The Washington Post, details a strikingly different role for the West Wing in the day-to-day management of the two wars, and represents an attempt to assert a more coherent and efficient leadership that many officials in different parts of the government have complained is lacking. The idea for such a czar has been promoted by various people, including former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), who sent a memo to the White House several weeks ago advocating it as part of an 18-point plan.

"The slowness and ineffectiveness of the American bureaucracy is a major hindrance to our winning, and they've got to cut through it," Gingrich said in an interview yesterday.

WaPo

[badgerpup]

1. Micromanaging again, I see...

Jeez.
Whyn't they just say they need a whipping boy target? Somebody to hold the bag and catch all the blame for this mess?

Remember, NOTHING is ever, ever Bush's fault.

[fob]

2. "the American bureaucracy is a major hindrance to our winning"

At least these republickers are finally admitting they simply HATE America, maybe this will wake up the idiot sheeple that vote for these fucksticks?

It's not the fact that the reshrublicks spend 110% of their energy making SURE the American buraucracy is a failure, no, can't be that.

Have I told everyone lately how much these assholes piss me off?

[Kool Kitty]

3. Gingrich sent a memo to the WH suggesting this

as part of an 18-point plan? Well, this part is unspectacular. What are the other 17 parts, Newt? Are they all this good? I love the part about "cutting through the bureaucracy", meaning no oversight.

[rasputin1952]

4. How truly pathetic....I guess FDR is spinning in his grave, after all...

he led the nation through a two front war right up until a few weeks before the war ended...and he didn't need a "War Czar".

For that matter, every president before this one didn't need no steenking "war czar".

Just shows more incompetence at the executive level...

[Cleita]

5. These people get crazier and crazier. Why are they so

unstoppable?

[bridgit]

6. read: even less respect for process & oversight...

[ingac70]

7. A Czar just creates anonther level of bureaucracy....

Like putting FEMA and other agencies under Homeland Security was suppose to "cut through" bureaucracy.

Repubs kill me with talking about how governmet is the problem, then precede to go out of their way and screw things up worse to show just how big a problem it can be.

Idiots! :mad:

[NormanYorkstein]

8. Drug Czar, Energy Czar, War Czar - why not just hire a Czar?

Just turn us into a dictatorship and be done with it!

The Czar will cut through the stagnant bureaucracy!

[bemildred]

9. Yeah, we need a Czar Czar to handle ALL the failed wars.

War on poverty, war on drugs, etc, no mention the real, non-bullshit wars on small nations with small armies.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Dear Mr. Bush, I suggest you outsource the position of 'War Czar' to either

India, Pakistan, or Viet Nam. Or, perhaps you could hire an H-1B visa holder from Russia.

[spanone]

11. Yes, once they get that pesky Congress out of the way they will win the war...bullshit

[dysfunctional press]

12. instead of "War Czar", why not call the position "Commander-in-chief"

and yes, we are in DIRE need of one.