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Article: War czar needed to brief Bush on Iraq, Afghanistan: report.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
- Article date:
- April 30, 2007
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War czar needed to brief Bush on Iraq, Afghanistan: report
New York, April 30 (PTI) The US President's National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley is interviewing candidates, including military generals, for a new high-profile job that people in Washington are calling the war czar.
The official would brief President George W Bush every morning on Iraq and Afghanistan, then prod cabinet secretaries into carrying out White House orders, the New York Times reported.
It is the kind of task - a little bit of internal diplomacy and a lot of head-knocking, fortified by direct access to the president - that would ordinarily fall to Hadley himself, the ...