( AP Photo) Because we had to have one.

President Bush has chosen Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, the Pentagon's director of operations, to oversee the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan as a "war czar" after a long search for new leadership, administration officials said Tuesday.

And he'll be used to criticize all Democratic opposition to the Iraq war at every chance...

Update: Duncan pulled a quote from August of 2005

He denied the withdrawal was motivated by political pressure from Washington. He said: “We believe at some point, in order to break this dependence on the . . . coalition, you simply have to back off and let the Iraqis step forward.

“You have to undercut the perception of occupation in Iraq. It's very difficult to do that when you have 150,000-plus, largely western, foreign troops occupying the country.”