[Vision2020] Shinseki To Be Named VA leader

[lfalen]

Obama's appointment are better than I expected. Gates and Jones are excellent. Shinseki is probably ok. hillary is not the best but, but it could have been a lot worse. Biill's business ventures could be  a problem. I think Holder is a poor pick and probably also Geithner.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:22:16 -0800
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Shinseki To Be Named VA leader

> 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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