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Obama Taps Shinseki for Veterans Affairs; Ironies Abound

The Sideshow found this 12/7/2008 on juancole.com

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 ...