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2007-05-16 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Bobby 2007-05-16 06:23|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Could have swore this used to called the "Commander in Chief".

Posted by ed 2007-05-16 07:35|| 2007-05-16 07:35|| Front Page Top

#2 The Commander in Chief used to be able to help plan to fight and win wars too.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-05-16 07:52|| 2007-05-16 07:52|| Front Page Top

#3 George Marshall did very well. You don't need a wire diagram. You don't need fancy titles or office space. You just need a Prez who turns to the Secretary of State, Attorney General, and Head of the CIA, and point to the officer and say "He's in charge. You work for him. Do what he says. And if you don't, you're fired." Clean, simple, to the point.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-05-16 09:07|| 2007-05-16 09:07|| Front Page Top

#4 There's this expression with day & dollar.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-05-16 10:04|| 2007-05-16 10:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Where did we get all these 4 star generals ?
What the hell did they ever do ?
I trust the stars are pewter, and not silver. You know, the easy-to-come-by cheap stars you can get at Walmart.

Posted by wxjames 2007-05-16 10:27|| 2007-05-16 10:27|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't get the war czar. Seems like another layer of bureaucracy to gum things up.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-05-16 10:46|| 2007-05-16 10:46|| Front Page Top

#7 And ...why hire a Russian?

Posted by Phineter Thraviger1073 2007-05-16 11:16|| 2007-05-16 11:16|| Front Page Top

#8 The "czar" title was trumped up by the media.

The operative word is "coordinate" as it reads..."Lute will coordinate"...

Posted by Captain America 2007-05-16 15:20|| 2007-05-16 15:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Are we declaring war on War?

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-05-16 15:39|| 2007-05-16 15:39|| Front Page Top

#10 "Trust the Force, Lute"

Posted by Steve">Steve 2007-05-16 17:22|| 2007-05-16 17:22|| Front Page Top

#11 It's a Presidential attempt to form a non-Republican Federal Democracy by creating a level of Ministerial posts just below the Presidency that actually handle everything and pass information that the President "needs to know" to him "when he needs to know it".

IOW it's an attempt by a lameduck President to distance himself from the responsibilities of the office and to defer responsibility to others.

I am so ashamed of this Presidents' recent policies and decisions to not stop the Buck at his desk I cannot even believe it myself.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-05-16 18:16|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-05-16 18:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Greg, give him a chance, he intends to sneek amnesty through the Senate in the dark of night.
Bush is a political retard.

Posted by wxjames 2007-05-16 19:26|| 2007-05-16 19:26|| Front Page Top

#13 If Bumble Boy Bush thinks anyone but him is going to shoulder the blame for the ME morass, he's badly mistaken. And he talks about how history will show him in a brighter light. Not. It's going to show him handling this worse than Lyndon Johnson handled (mismanaged)Vietnam. We know how he ended up. Drinking himself to death as he let his Cadillac go round & round in circles on his ranch. Bush has a ranch in Texas. He's a former alky. He just needs a Caddy.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-05-16 20:08|| 2007-05-16 20:08|| Front Page Top

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