I love this headline: AP - Rumsfeld nemesis Shinseki to be named VA secretary

Rumsfeld nemesis Shinseki to be named VA secretary

By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer Hope Yen, Associated Press Writer – 5 mins ago

WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama has chosen retired Gen. Eric K. Shinseki to be the next Veterans Affairs secretary, turning to a former Army chief of staff once vilified by the Bush administration for questioning its Iraq war strategy.
Obama will announce the selection of Shinseki, the first Army four-star general of Japanese-American ancestry, at a news conference Sunday in Chicago. He will be the first Asian-American to hold the post of Veterans Affairs secretary, adding to the growing diversity of Obama's Cabinet.

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Shinseki's tenure as Army chief of staff from 1999 to 2003 was marked by constant tensions with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, which boiled over in 2003 when Shinseki testified to Congress that it might take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to control Iraq after the invasion.

Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, belittled the estimate as "wildly off the mark" and the army general was ousted within months. But Shinseki's words proved prophetic after President George W. Bush in early 2007 announced a "surge" of additional troops to Iraq after miscalculating the numbers needed to stem sectarian violence.

Obama said he chose Shinseki for the VA post because he "was right" in predicting that the U.S. will need more troops in Iraq than Rumsfeld believed at the time.
"When I reflect on the sacrifices that have been made by our veterans and I think about how so many veterans around the country are struggling even more than those who have not served — higher unemployment rates, higher homeless rates, higher substance abuse rates, medical care that is inadequate — it breaks my heart," Obama told NBC.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081207/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/obama_veterans_affairs;_ylt=An2O3vkqD_tlQ_v03Fcp7BuyFz4D

over a rumor he was going to be arrested for war crimes? Maybe he's already holed up in the enclave in Paraquay...

Somewhere there is an orange suit just his size and with his name on it.

so I could express my endless relief that we have a sane, smart, personable president elect. I hope you don't mind if I gloat and kick this thread. :)

Bite me, Rumsfeld!

:kick:

Big thumbs up on this cabinet pick.