[Vision2020] Shinseki To Be Named VA leader

[Tom Hansen]

FINALLY!

Somebody that actually gives a damn.

>From today's (December 7, 2008) Spokesman Review -

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Shinseki to be named VA leader 
Retired general had clashed with Rumsfeld

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General Eric K. Shinseki
http://tinyurl.com/Shinseki
 
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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 today 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.

"I think that General Shinseki is exactly the right person who is going to 
be able to make sure that we honor our troops when they come home," Obama 
said in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" to be broadcast today.

NBC released a transcript of the interview after the Associated Press 
reported that Shinseki was Obama's pick.

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

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Obama's picks 

A look at the people selected to fill some of the top posts in the Obama 
administration:

Secretary of State: 
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.

Treasury Secretary: 
Timothy Geithner, president of Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Attorney General: 
Eric Holder, former deputy attorney general

Defense Secretary: 
Robert Gates, a holdover from Bush administration

Homeland Security Secretary: 
Gov. Janet Napolitano, D-Ariz.

National Security Adviser: 
Retired Marine Gen. James Jones

Commerce Secretary: 
Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M.

National Economic Council Director: 
Lawrence Summers, former treasury secretary

Office of Management and Budget Director: 
Peter Orszag, director of Congressional Budget Office

Veterans Affairs Secretary: 
Retired Gen. Eric K. Shinseki

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What can I say, but . . .

"Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnbszPOCOHY

"If you wake up and dont want to smile,
If it takes just a little while,
Open your eyes and look at the day,
Youll see things in a different way.

Don't stop, thinking about tomorrow,
Don't stop, it'll soon be here,
It'll be, better than before,
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone.

Why not think about times to come,
And not about the things that you've done,
If your life was bad to you,
Just think what tomorrow will do.

Don't stop, thinking about tomorrow,
Don't stop, itll soon be here,
It'll be, better than before,
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone.

All I want is to see you smile,
If it takes just a little while,
I know you don't believe that it's true,
I never meant any harm to you.

Don't stop, thinking about tomorrow,
Don't stop, it'll soon be here,
It'll be, better than before,
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone."

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"For a lapse Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist 
Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go 
to work."

- Roy Zimmerman


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