VA chief steps down

[Eastoff]

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-shinseki-resigns-20140530-story.html#page=1

this is like 6 hours old.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

ONCE AGAIN ASIAN MALES CAN'T ELICIT ANY KIND OF REACTION.

 

[Denny Crane]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Shinseki

Shinseki publicly clashed with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during the planning of the war in Iraq over how many troops the United States would need to keep in Iraq for the postwar occupation of that country. As Army Chief of Staff, General Shinseki testified to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee that "something in the order of several hundred thousand soldiers" would probably be required for postwar Iraq. This was an estimate far higher than the figure being proposed by Secretary Rumsfeld in his invasion plan, and it was rejected in strong language by both Rumsfeld and his Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, who was another chief planner of the invasion and occupation.[13] From then on, Shinseki's influence on the Joint Chiefs of Staff reportedly waned.[14] Critics of the Bush Administration alleged that Shinseki was forced into early retirement as Army Chief of Staff because of his comments on troop levels; however, his retirement was announced nearly a year before those comments.

 

[PapaG]

Six years later, and the assclown President is still blaming Bush.

"This predates my presidency. When I was in the Senate, I was on the Veterans Affairs Committee. I heard first-hand veterans who were not getting the kinds of services and benefits that they had earned," the President said to the White House Press Corps this afternoon. The assertion that the VA scandal was an ongoing cultural problem within the institution followed declaration that he would "always take responsibility for whatever happens," particularly with regard to Veterans Affairs.

Six years to clean it up, he campaigned on it in 2008, and instead it got worse. No worries, though, because it started before Obama was President. Let's give him a do-over. He's heard stories, man!