Daniel Inouye actually said...

His honest assessment that more troops would be needed cost him his job, but it is the surest measure of his fitness to serve as a member of the cabinet.

Context

Inouye praises Shinseki's honesty about troop needs during the Iraq War.

01/13/2009

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