Looks like Obama is placing retired Gen. Eric K. Shinseki as the new Veterans Affairs Secretary.
Shinseki, who was vilified and then summarily canned as Army Chief of Staff by Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld for saying that the United States needed a huge contingent of soldiers to manage the aftermath of the Iraq invasion was vindicated by time.
After being fired for dissenting from the madness that was the Rumsfeld strategy, the General was famously quoted as saying, "Beware a 12-division strategy for a 10-division army."
Government always being the epicenter of human irony, Shinseki will now preside over a department that will try to help peice back together the broken lives of those thrust into callous, unnecessary war. A hefty, if not Sisyphean task.
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