AAAHHHHHH!  Well…this is why. Now I understand why we can’t afford that extra 40 buck a month for the spouses of the fallen. We have to pay the War Czar!He’ll need some fatter comfy’s too. This guy must be really good at Stratego!  We’re hopin’!

Really and truely? Czar of War—-funny I thought we had a Secretary of Defense, who used to be the Secretary of War, until they changed the title to Secretary of Defense, because it sounded more friendly.

Czar, a form of Caesar, the name of a Roman Dictator and by extension an honorific for a Roman Emperor and then a Roman sub-Emperor, none of it having to do with Democracy or Republic (which is a form of Representational Democracy, unless you are talking about the Republic of Venice, which had nothing to do with Democracy at all, but was an oligarchy—sigh).

This supposed conservative party that hates intrusive government, big government has created the biggest and most intrusive government the country has ever had. Intellegence gathering worked fine up to 9/11, but was ignored by those responsible to do something about it(amongst whom were Bush/Cheney) to misdirect our attention we had to form a mega agency of facist intent called Homeland Security and now the “decider” has decided we need to have another obtuse layer to hide the fact he has fucked up again and so of course we will have a sycophant called a Czar of War, since we all know how effective the old Russian Czar’s were at getting people killed for ego driven agenda’s. Hay, God people are you happy now?

This is just so that Bush can deflect criticism and act as if there is a “new” strategy.

It’s like the thing with Patraeus. Suddenly critcism of the Prez-dents war plans are off-limits - every time there is criticism of the the Prez-dent, it is deflected onto Patraeus, and then it is declared that criticism of the war is “attacking our troops”.

Now we have 2 new “soldiers” who will be used to deflect criticism of the war onto the military, effectively neutralizing the criticism and branding the criticizers as un-patriotic.

Five Star General Douglas MaCarthur said in his last speech at West Point, “When I die my last thoughts will be of the Corps. the Corps, the, corps.

No mention of America, America, America.

This further explains the priorities of the military.

Good old West Point. They produce officers that recite, “Duty, Honor, Country” as their credo.

They prioritize there responsibilities as to the Military first.

Shouldn’t it be, “Country, Honor, Duty”?

General Loot. How appropriate.

WELL IT LOOKS AS IF, THEY HAVE FOUND A FALL GUY!!!

When something is turning to shit, you appoint a czar to take the blame.

Now Mr. Bush will point to this General and claim to be listening to him after Mr. Bush has told him what he wants to hear from him.  Another layer of political bullshit.  We all know Bush follows the recommendations of only Rove and Cheney.  And when Iraq falls into complete chaos, Mr. Bush will blame this fool.  General Lute may be loyal to the office of Commander-in-Chief, but how can any self-respecting military professional allow himself to become a political lackey in Mr. Bush’s Iraq nightmare?  If the man is dumb and or ambitious enough to become part of this bizarre military/political charade, he deserves the failure and disgrace it will attach to his career.

Finally a general who passed the dumb enough test and took the job.As Bush said to Cheney is Lute dumb enough to take the job.
In 4 years when he comes out with his book"I Was The Pivot Man In A Circle Jerk” he will cover his own ass ala Tenet.The Army always has a Westmoreland type in the wings.