{"id":5943,"date":"2008-12-06T18:37:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T23:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=5943"},"modified":"2008-12-06T19:45:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T00:45:52","slug":"another-clintonista-named-as-va-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=5943","title":{"rendered":"Another clintonista named as VA Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"

The King of the Black Beret, Eric Shinseki is rumored to be the next VA Secretary by Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Democratic officials say President-elect Barack Obama has selected retired Gen. Eric K. Shinseki to be the next Veterans Affairs secretary.<\/p>\n

The officials said Obama will announce his selection Sunday. They spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid pre-empting the official announcement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shinseki’s claim to fame was inflaming the whole former-Ranger community by taking the black beret from Rangers and putting it on the entire force’s heads – then he bought the berets he’d need for the Army from a Chinese manufacturer. I was in the House Small Business Committee hearing when he lied and told the Committee (which nearly had to subpeona Shinseki to get him appear in front of the Committee) that he wasn’t aware that the berets were coming from a Chinese manufacturer.<\/p>\n

Shinseki was a tanker who had become accustomed to wearing a black beret until the Army Chief of Staff Rodgers forbade their wear (because they weren’t authorized by the 670-1) in 1978, so to get his revenge, Shinseki gave the whole Army the Black Beret when he became ACS. It was my first experience with online activism.<\/p>\n

And AP perpetuates the lie that Shinseki was fired by the Bush Administration;<\/p>\n

Shinseki is the former Army chief of staff who upset his civilian bosses in 2003 when he testified to Congress that it might take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to control Iraq after the U.S. invasion. He was forced out of his job within months for being “wildly off the mark.” But his words proved prophetic after President George W. Bush in early 2007 announced a “surge” of additional troops to Iraq after miscalculating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shinseki left his job when his term ended – he was not “forced out of his job”. His term expired after four years (1999-2003) like every Army Chief of Staff before and since. We’ll probably be hearing a lot of that false story over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

I wonder if Shinseki will now take the Rangers’ tan beret and give it to VA staff.<\/p>\n

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Even the Washington Post<\/a> didn’t bother to repeat the “forced from his job” lie;<\/p>\n

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