Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Deputy SecDef Recommends End War Before '08 Elections

Al Kamen (WaPo)

The Democrats and other cut-and-runners are in disarray over their next move on Iraq. And they keep jabbering that the administration has no plan for the war other than the same old, same old.

Nonsense. The Pentagon, in a series of recent memos, is making the fight against terrorism synonymous with Iraq (although it has been pretty much confirmed that Saddam Hussein wasn't involved in the Sept. 11 attacks) and has issued a clear call for getting the job done by the end of next year.

In a Feb. 15 memo, England spotted a key fact that most everyone in this town has overlooked. "At noon on Jan. 20, 2009," he wrote, "many of the civilian Department of Defense (DOD) leadership positions will transition to a new Administration Team. This change, coupled with the normal rotation of military leadership, could disrupt many of the management process changes currently underway in the Department."

So "to ensure that warfighters and taxpayers receive maximum benefit from on-going initiatives," England suggested, "it would be highly desirable to complete current projects by the summer/fall of 2008."
(my em)

I don't think Bush's War, the major "current project", will end as long as he's in office, but if it ends prior to that to prevent "disruption of management process changes" at the Pentagon, I'm all for it. I'm not going to hold my breath.

On the other hand, maybe England's just seen the writing on the wall and figured out they'd better get any projects done before the elections because they're all gonna get kicked out on their asses afterwards, and rightly so.

There's for damn sure gonna be some "disruption of management process changes" under the next real President.

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