From firedoglakeblog this morning:

Who said:

8.  I don't know.  I think what happened is, again, as you're taking a reveiw,
it became clear to us that this - as you develop - as you move into a new
phase of the war - keep in mind, we are still in the process of
deploying people in this new way forward, as the President called it,
and therefore, it seems proper at a time like this also to task
somebody with the job of keeping an eye n all the different players
who are involved in it.

Quote by Tony Show, trying not to answer the question:
"why did it take so long to find a war czar?"

Comment by  totally loved me ... in firedoglake blog comments section.

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It is indeed morning in America, isn’t it?

drive-by; my Thursday $.02.

What’s interesting to me is that 7 of the 8 statements are fairly
straightforward.

Tony Snow, however, needs a refresher from George Orwell:

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of
the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India,
the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on
Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too
brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed
aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist
largely of euphemism., question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.
Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out
into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire
with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Millions of
peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no
more than they can carry: this is called transfer of population or
rectification of frontiers. People are imprisoned for years without trial,
or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in
Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable
elements. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without
calling up mental pictures of them. Consider for instance some comfortable
English professor defending Russian totalitarianism. He cannot say
outright, “I believe in killing off your opponents when you can get good
results by doing so.”
The whole essay - Politics and the English Language - speaks to the
modern GOP, and to Doctor Frank Luntz, who was so memorably awful on
Real Time last week. Orwell had them nailed 61 years ago.

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