Shinseki

Barack Obama's nomination of Eric Shinseki to head the Department of Veterans Affairs is not only a brilliant master-stroke (the man is more than qualified to head the department), but a small "in your face" to the current administration and their Fascist-Republican enablers.

In the run-up to the Iraq War in 2003, Shinseki had the temerity to tell Congress that it would take hundreds of thousands of troops to fight the war correctly. That went against then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's opinion that it would be a short conflict fought with minimal troops. Shinseki was removed from the military in short order, and we all know how things went in Iraq after the fall of Baghdad.

As President-elect Obama told Tom Brokaw on "Meet the Press" yesterday...

[Shinseki] was right.

Video from that exchange below: