1.0 link 11532 <![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi, the Shinseki Myth and things that really piss me off]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-schlesinger/nancy-pelosi-the-shinseki_b_11532.html One of the things that drives me batshit about Washington is a bipartisan inability among pols to be satisfied with a wholly truthful, but still winning, talking point. Instead, all too often they exaggerate, presumably for overkill.

Take, for example, the Shinseki myth.

It goes like this: Then-Army Chief of General Staff Eric Shinseki was fired from his post (or “retired” as John Kerry put it in a presidential debate last year) because he testified before Congress that an occupying force of...

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