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...However, Ms McCaskill pointed out that Eric Shinseki, head of the US military’s Veterans’ Affairs Department, had been forced to step down in May over delays at hospitals even though he had never been told...
...Eric Shinseki resigned as head of the military veterans affairs department on Friday following the revelation of mismanagement at its hospitals that the retired general described as “indefensible”....
...The search for a new head of the department follows the resignation in late May of Eric Shinseki following the revelation of mismanagement at its hospitals that the retired general described as “indefensible...
...Even Friday’s resignation of Eric Shinseki as veterans secretary – due to a scandal over hospital waiting lists – had an Afghanistan echo, given the pressures that the two wars have placed on the veterans...
...The political impact of the scandal has been somewhat muted so far, in part because of the respect still enjoyed by the veterans affairs secretary, retired four-star general Eric Shinseki who was himself...
...It was two weeks before the resignation of Department of Veterans Affairs secretary Eric Shinseki , which is unlikely to quell public concern....
...Its website also touts the $7bn in loans the Obama administration has given to Asian-American businesses and the record number of Asian-Americans in his cabinet, including Eric Shinseki, veterans’ affairs...
...When the army’s chief of staff, General Eric Shinseki, argued just before the war that many more troops would be necessary, he was rebuked. He retired a few months later....
...In nominating Eric Shinseki for the post of veterans affairs, Mr Obama brings back to the public arena a former army chief of staff who called on the US to provide more troops for Iraq, only to be criticised...
...Quoting General Eric Shinseki, former chief of staff of the US army, Mr Kravis said: “If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.” He added: “That goes for all of us.”...
...Gen Eric Shinseki, then chief of staff of the army, was sidelined in 2003 by Donald Rumsfeld, the then defence secretary, for telling Congress that the US needed to deploy several hundred thousand soldiers...
...“Wolfowitz was always dogmatic, sure of his own position,” Mr Nye said, recalling Mr Wolfowitz’s dismissal of General Eric Shinseki’s estimate that several hundred thousand troops would be required to secure...
...In what appeared to be a repudiation of Donald Rumsfeld, the outgoing defence secretary, Gen Abizaid acknowledged that General Eric Shinseki, the former army chief of staff, was corrected when he said before...
...Gen Abizaid also appeared to put a shot across the bow of Donald Rumsfeld, the soon to depart defence secretary, when asked whether General Eric Shinseki, the former army chief of staff, was correct when...
...They point to his sidelining of Eric Shinseki, the former army chief of staff, in 2003 after he told Congress before the war that several hundred thousand troops would be needed for the invasion and occupation...
...Military officers point to the treatment of General Eric Shinseki, former chief of staff of the army....
...They claim that Mr Rumsfeld arrogantly ignored the advice of senior military in planning for the Iraq invasion, including Eric Shinseki, the former army chief of staff who in 2003 told Congress that several...
...Mr Rumsfeld developed a reputation for dismissing the advice of his top commanders after he sidelined General Eric Shinseki, then chief of staff of the army, who told Congress that the Iraq invasion would...
...His ebullient optimism was also evident in his casual dismissal of warnings by Eric Shinseki, the former US army chief of staff, that the US would need several hundred thousand troops in Iraq....
...General Eric Shinseki had been forced into retirement after he warned that the US had insufficient troops to pacify the country....
...Early last year, Mr Rumsfeld clashed with General Eric Shinseki, the army chief, who said “hundreds of thousands” of US troops would be needed to secure postwar Iraq far more than the roughly 130,000 deployed...
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