Who is Douglas Lute?

He would be the luckless sap of a three star general that the Bush Admin conned into becoming it's Iraq War "Czar".
He is making all sorts of earnest and hopeful noises to congress as part of his confirmation hearings but really nothing much can be expected of the poor guy.
After all just how is a three star general supposed to manage & control his nominal superiors the five star generals who comprise the majority on the Joint Chiefs of Staff? To say nothing of the Vice President of the United States a man with his own separate agenda and power structure within the Executive Department?
Nope, poor Doug Lute is there to provide a uniformed professional face to our disastrous policy in Iraq nothing more. If he can keep the lid on til November 2008 fine, if not, Bush will fire him in a bid to boost the GOP's electoral prospects...thats really all the poor guy is there for...to take the inevitable fall.