esrosedotblog

GENIUS updated

This is the guy that bush trashed when he disagreed with the admin-iraq policy.

Rumsfeld nemesis Shinseki to be named VA secretary

As it happens he was right and the bushies were wrong. A nicely placed slap in the face to both W and Rummy. And Shinseki will be great at it.

The VA is not doing its job. The bushies have defunded it as the scandal about caring for wounded troops grows.

Another military guy in the Obama administration. And an Asian American. The first to reach 4 star rank.

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.

Shinseki, 66, is slated to take the helm of the government's second largest agency, which was roundly criticized during the Bush administration for underestimating the amount of funding needed to treat thousands of injured veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Labels: Administration Obama, bush. bushies