juancole.com - 12/7/2008
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Barack Obama will put forward retired Gen. Eric Shinseki as Secretary of Veterans Affairs in his cabinet. . WaPo quoted me: 'Juan Cole, a University of Michigan history professor who writes about the Iraq war and Islam, called Shinseki's appointment ironic. "If Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and ...
online.wsj.com - 12/5/2008
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online.wsj.com —
JAMES TARANTO Barack Obama was elected president a
month ago and does not take office for another
6 weeks. But his most fervent supporters already have reason to be disappointed in him. Witness the headline of a "news analysis" in today's New York ...
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'Muted by Reality'
attackerman.firedoglake.com - 12/7/2008
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attackerman.firedoglake.com —
A source close to the presidential transition just
confirmed to me that Eric Shinseki, the Army chief
of staff who stood up to Donald Rumsfeld and told the truth about the real military costs of the Iraq war, will be Veterans Affairs secretary. ...
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We Need A Hero: Shinseki for Veterans’ Affairs
weeklystandard.com - 12/5/2008
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weeklystandard.com —
Word on the street is Obama will head
to an Arab capital for a major speech in
his first 100 days. I doubt anyone in the United States will care much one way or the other, preoccupied as we are by our own economic problems, but that's not to say such ...
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Why Not Baghdad?
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The Sideshow —
... Barack Obama will put forward retired Gen. Eric Shinseki as Secretary of Veterans Affairs in his cabinet - which is good, because if they'd listened to Shinseki, there wouldn't be so many vets desperately needing help in the first place. ...
Obama Taps Shinseki To Head A 21st Century VA: ‘We Have A Sacred Trust To Repay’ To Our Troops
Think Progress —
... Congress that it would take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to secure Iraq.
The Bush administration’s failure to heed Shinseki’s warnings have led to a decimation of the U.S. military — underequipped forces, an over-reliance on the National Guard and Reserves, a dangerous stop-loss policy, and an increasing number troops coming home with mental and physical problems. As Michigan University history professor Juan Cole told the Washington Post:
If Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and [former ...
General Shinseki is back
Angry Bear —
Juan Cole comments on General Shinseki's appointment to oversee the care of our veterans. He also re-introduces us to the General's testimony in Congress and the Cheney/Wolfowitz responses to the call for several hundreds of thousands troops to police, maintain infrastructure, and keep thing going, taken from direct experience in the Baltic region. Welcome back General.
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Iran Urges Obama to Change Approach —
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