BF2S Forums Bush to appoint new "War Czar"

Imperial Russia FTW

RedTwizzler wrote:

It says something about the state of the supposedly democratic United States when they start appointing Czars.

The term Czar defined (According to Wikipedia): Tsar (Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian цар, Russian царь (help·info), Croatian car, in scientific transliteration respectively car and car' ), often spelled Czar, and sometimes Tzar, Csar, or Zar in English, is a Slavonic term designating certain monarchs.

America is less and less a democracy every day...

Czar is Russian for Caesar.

oh my god

ON paper, the appointment of three-star Gen. Douglas E. Lute as White House "war czar" - after five retired four-stars turned down the job - makes perfect sense. It's about time somebody took charge.

The reality is something else: The whoppingly mislabeled "czar" will have neither the authority to force departments and agencies to do what they were supposed to do all along, nor the vital power of the purse.

He'll have to rely on persuasion. In D.C., that's a joke.

Lord knows, the administration needs a grown-up to make its brats do their homework, to ensure that our commanders and troops get the support they need and to look ahead instead of forever scrambling to fix yesterday's goofs.

etc...etc...

So, now the bush admin has a liason to the generals and somebody in charge of the wars.
About time.


_{Rolls eyes}

Last edited by ATG (2007-05-17 19:20:16)

nothing good ever comes form someone with the title of "Czar"

Kmarion wrote:

ON paper, the appointment of three-star Gen. Douglas E. Lute as White House "war czar" - after five retired four-stars turned down the job - makes perfect sense. It's about time somebody took charge.

The reality is something else: The whoppingly mislabeled "czar" will have neither the authority to force departments and agencies to do what they were supposed to do all along, nor the vital power of the purse.

He'll have to rely on persuasion. In D.C., that's a joke.

Lord knows, the administration needs a grown-up to make its brats do their homework, to ensure that our commanders and troops get the support they need and to look ahead instead of forever scrambling to fix yesterday's goofs.

etc...etc...

From that article:

And the elephant-with-dysentery on the White House South Lawn is, of course, the spectacularly corrupt and incompetent private-sector involvement in Iraq....Will he have the authority to regulate and discipline the private security firms whose thugs have done so much to undermine our relations with the average Iraqi?

This is obviously a political/P.R. move and nothing else.  He is either going to take the fall for the 'loss in Iraq' or become a Political Officer of influence for the Bush Administration. 

There is a Joint Chiefs of Staff for a reason.  I like how the Bush Administration just creates new titles like "War Czar" and "Department of Homeland Security".

Last edited by KEN-JENNINGS (2007-05-17 19:41:53)

hay guyz my name is war czar

lol, when I first saw this on Yahoo! I nearly pissed myself.

how easily they wet their pants "someone said czar " shudder !

Czar schmar, what's in a name, his actual authority will be rather limited.

Hey why can't we have other names instead for these types of positions (appointments)

Like the Grand Poobah of War!

You might not have the authority you should, but you get to wear this hat!

Last edited by topal63 (2007-05-18 12:45:25)