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Article: EDITORIAL: New war czar's plan might have worked wonders 4 years ago: New war czar's plan might have worked wonders 4 years ago.(Editorial)
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- The Tribune (Mesa, AZ)
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- May 19, 2007
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May 19--Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute now joins Gen. David Petraeus in having the most thankless task in the U.S. government -- trying to win, or at least engineer an acceptable stalemate, in Iraq.
Lute is President Bush's new "war czar," a title the White House doesn't care for because it raises questions about what the commander in chief and secretary of defense have been doing all this time, but the name has already stuck. His appointment is a tacit, backdoor admission that the administration has largely bungled the war to date.
Lute's task is to coordinate military and civilian operations from the Washington end, to knock heads together and cut through ...