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Published 12/6/2008 by rsinderbrand at CNN Political Ticker

(CNN) — Two Democratic sources confirm to CNN that President-elect Barack Obama will nominate retired General Eric Shinseki to be Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Shinsheki infuriated some Bush administration officials in the run-up to the Iraq war when he told Congress it would take several hundred thousand soldiers to achieve [...] (link)

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