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Retirement of General Shinseki - Definition |
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The retirement of General Shinseki was one of the debate points brought up between John Kerry and George Bush on September 30, 2004.
Kerry said that General Eric Shinseki, the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, was retired for disagreeing with the Bush administration's estimates of troop requirements for the 2003 Iraq War. Reports from Shinseki himself claimed that he was forced into retirement because of disagreements with Donald Rumsfeld's vision of the Defense Department, rather than disagreements over the specific troop projections for the Iraq War.
The Bush Campaign claims that General Shinseki had already put in for retirement as of mid-2002, about half a year before the war began.
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See also
2004 U.S. presidential election debates
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