On the April 12 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, Fox News White House correspondent Wendell Goler reported that "two retired generals have turned down" the position of war czar and that one had "sa[id] he didn't need the ulcer he would be likely to develop." But that was a small part of what retired Maj. Gen. John J. "Jack" Sheehan reportedly said. Unmentioned in Goler's report was the statement by Sheehan that he refused the job because he would have spent much of his time unsuccessfully fighting Vice President Dick Cheney and his allies who, according to Sheehan, "don't know where the hell they're going" on Iraq.

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