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...Kurt Campbell, a Clinton administration Pentagon official who heads the Center for a New American Security, said the difficulty in finding someone to take the job shows that Bush has exhausted his ability to sign up top people to help salvage a disastrous war. "Who's sitting on the bench?" he asked. "Who is there to turn to? And who would want to take the job?"

All three generals who declined the job have been to varying degrees administration insiders. Keane, a former Army vice chief of staff, was one of the primary proponents of sending more troops to Iraq and presented Bush with his plan for a major force increase during an Oval Office meeting in December. The president adopted the concept in January, although he did not dispatch as many troops as Keane proposed.

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Originally posted by Kelkhil:
"Someone" is just looking for a fall guy that can be prosecuted in his place for all the war crimes that have been commited.

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May 17 - The White House's top lawyer warned more than two years ago that U.S. officials could be prosecuted for "war crimes" as a result of new and unorthodox measures used by the Bush administration in the war on terrorism, according to an internal White House memo and interviews with participants in the debate over the issue.

The concern about possible future prosecution for war crimes—and that it might even apply to Bush adminstration officials themselves— is contained in a crucial portion of an internal January 25, 2002, memo by White House counsel Alberto Gonzales obtained by NEWSWEEK. It urges President George Bush declare the war in Afghanistan, including the detention of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters, exempt from the provisions of the Geneva Convention.

In the memo, the White House lawyer focused on a little known 1996 law passed by Congress, known as the War Crimes Act, that banned any Americans from committing war crimes—defined in part as "grave breaches" of the Geneva Conventions. Noting that the law applies to "U.S. officials" and that punishments for violators "include the death penalty," Gonzales told Bush that "it was difficult to predict with confidence" how Justice Department prosecutors might apply the law in the future. This was especially the case given that some of the language in the Geneva Conventions—such as that outlawing "outrages upon personal dignity" and "inhuman treatment" of prisoners—was "undefined."

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Originally posted by Dayve:
yeah, or The Cooler.....

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Originally posted by ShinyEd:
Maybe Putin would consider being our War Czar? After all, an ex-KGB thug would have lots of nasty little tricks up his sleeve to quell these insurgencies. Or perhaps just turn it over to Alec Baldwin as the new War Czar...say what you want about "leaving for Canada" Baldwin, but when that dude gets angry...better step aside fast....anyone see Glengarry Glen Ross?

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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
Isn't that the Commander-In-Chief's job?

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Originally posted by SignyM:
DO you happen to know the NAME of this nice lady who vacted the position?

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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
The White House is looking for a " war czar " to run the Iraq/Afghanistan War.

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Originally posted by ShinyEd:
Why a czar, and not a tsar? ..or even a tsarina?...and to do what exactly?...F**k it up even worse like that inept retard Paul Bremer did when he was the "czar of occupied Iraq"?
This has got to be the single most desperate and absurd thing I've seen come out of this Administration in...well...at least a week.

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