"Rumsfeld critic Shinseki to head Veterans Affairs" from Politico reports that 4 star General Eric Shinseki, a deocrated Vietnam veteran who recommended a far larger troop presence in Iraq and who retired in 2003 is getting a bit of vindication with his appointment to the Department of Veterans Affairs - an obvious back of the hand at President Bush and his Iraq war planners.
Shinseki will certainly empathize with those soldiers who feel they have been shafted by the system - and one wonders what the course of the war might have been like if Shinseki had been heeded - with a surge earlier on than later.
Shortly before the end of his term as Chief of Staff in 2003, Shinseki told a congressional committee that post-war Iraq would require hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops. Both Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz publicly scoffed at the estimate— a rare public rebuff to one of the nation's most senior generals. When Shinseki retired, no senior civilians from the Pentagon showed at his ceremony.
Obama Discusses General Shinseki For VA:
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