http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3726.aspx
Akre elucidates, “A recent report by the Rand Corp estimated that among 300,000 troops returning from overseas, one in five had suffered a traumatic brain injury. Between 2002 and 2004, the numbers of veterans claiming unemployment for ex-service members increased by about 75 percent. The cost is more than one-half billion dollars in treatment and lost productivity . . . .”
Meanwhile, one-of-the-very-few active generals in February 2003 who basically called Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz’s war and occupation plans inept and inaccurate, was ex-General Eric Shinseki. Shinseki will try to clean up the mistakes and crimes of the Rumsfeld-Bush-Cheney-Wolfowitz clan.
http://www.juancole.com/2008/12/obama-taps-shinseki-for-veterans.html
Shinseki was retired a few months later, i.e. in summer of 2003.
Let’s hope he can do many things better than incompetents (and the criminals) in the White House and under the W. Bush administration before him have done.
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