Retired four-star general Eric Shinseki, a Japanese-American, now heads the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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President Obama trusted a great warrior, General Eric Shinseki, with transforming the Department of Veterans Affairs to meet 21st Century challenges.

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In 2000, former Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki first proposed the FCS project in an attempt to make the Army more deployable, networked, jointly synchronized and survivable.

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And if he had known that he underestimated the number of troops needed to pacify Iraq, would he have rebuked General Eric Shinseki for testifying that several hundred thousand troops were needed?

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