Gen. Shinseki to Head VA

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  • I love it...I hope Shinseki's words haunt that scum Rumsfeld the rest of his miserable days. They won't though...it would require him to be self-reflective, intellectually honest and contrite. Anyhow, another solid choice by Obama for his cabinet. Good vid post as always heathr!

  • General Eric Shinseki is the former Army Chief of Staff who testified to Congress that the U.S. would need several hundred thousand troops to contain Iraq.

    At the time, Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld and National Security Adviser Paul Wolfowitz laughed at Shinseki and said they would need much less troops.

    Shinseki was forced to retire by the Bush Administration for his criticism. However, Shinseki's prediction proved eerily correct, and Bush was forced to initiate a "surge" to compensate.

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  • Well said!

  • You can find them today on the North & South Korean border.

  • That was the purview of Veteran's Affairs, which was (as Hibbs4Prez points out) was pretty much gutted and rendered irrelevant by the Bush administration hacks appointed to lead it. The agency under Shinseki will finally care for veterans in a manner in which this country has a moral imperative to maintain.

  • He was also harshly criticized for being "wildly off base," with his prediction for troop numbers. Careful what you read - there was an agenda-driven smear campaign targeted at Shinseki for some time - all of which proved to be nothing short of malicious.

  • No, that would be the Bush administration.

  • Sad to say, but it be hard to find several hundred thousand kids nowadays willing to serve.

  • yeah, that's because all McCain suppporters are a bunch of Nazi klansmen who can't stand anybody non-white..you racist retard.

  • When he's still working, did he take good care of the soldiers returning to the mainland from Iraq? I read somewhere that his department was harshly critized for not working hard enough to take care of returning soldiers.

  • is that sarcasm?

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