{"id":34574,"date":"2013-03-15T10:28:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T14:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34574"},"modified":"2013-03-15T10:28:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T14:28:17","slug":"joe-klein-calls-for-shinsekis-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34574","title":{"rendered":"Joe Klein calls for Shinseki’s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’ve said before, I’m no fan of Joe Klein<\/a>, but lately, he’s been hitting on all cylinders in regards to the troops and the veterans. Today is no different. He criticizes Eric Shinseki – the guy I’ve been publicly criticizing for more than 12 years. I think it’s because he’s a complete dumbass who doesn’t have a clue as to why things do and don’t work, beginning with the Black Berets, oh so long ago. Klein is nicer;<\/p>\n

When was the last time you saw Shinseki say or do anything in public? He is universally regarded as an exemplary man. But even his supporters say he’s old-school military, stoic, wary of the press. And his detractors, who are legion among the generation of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, say he lacks the creativity and leadership skills to deal with Veterans Affairs’ mind-boggling problems, like the 900,000 unprocessed disability cases. In any event, he has been in office for four years, and the problems our veterans face are worse than ever–and about to get still worse as the military demobilizes tens of thousands of additional troops in the next few years. It is time for him to step down.<\/p>\n

To be sure, the problems are not all Shinseki’s fault. There’s been a lot of flag-waving and patriotic blather from politicians, but there’s also been a scandalous absence of action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Klein left out the millions of dollars wasted on lavish parties disguised as “training” at the VA. The scads of phonies who we’ve uncovered who were drawing VA pensions. The hundreds of undiscovered phony POWs that the Department refuses to investigate. And there’s Joe Cryer<\/a> who I’ve submitted to the VA as a phony no less than four times still drawing a pension for PTS on his non-existent mission into Libya. Not to mention the veterans who need help and just aren’t getting it from the VA. Every month, there seems to be a scandal about the VA losing thousands of veterans personally identifiable information or hundreds of veterans infected by a careless employee.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, when there was a rumor being passed around the internet about Veterans’ Affairs coming for our gun rights, did anyone hear anything from the VA? Nope they left it up to me and TSO to spread the word that they weren’t. Buy me a beer sometime and I’ll tell you the whole story.<\/p>\n

Shinseki is captain of a rudderless ship careening around the oceans with no direction, and Klein is correct, he needs to go and a real leader needs to take the helm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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