In 2003 before a senate panel, then Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki made a fatal (career-wise) decision when answering questions. That is he told the Bush administration and Donald Rumsfeld what they didn't want to hear. His flimsy excuse was that he happened to be telling the truth. The question was how many soldiers would he need to effectively occupy a post-war Iraq and his answer was "Something on the order of several hundred thousand would be required." History has proven him correct. To Rumsfeld this made him unacceptable and rumors of his early (forced) retirement were leaked and he became effectively a lame duck due to the bunch of quacks who ran this war. Smart, intelligent, and accurate, that is what President Elect Obama seems to want and thus his appointment.
We are beginning to appreciate just how much material Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and company supplied us with, and in news of the Faux sense, we'll miss them.
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