events vindicated shinseki and made mr. wolfowitz look like a bit of a fool. but i think what's important about the episode -- to appreciate the importance of the episode, you have to appreciate in a sense the ideological context in which this debate, ll it the shinseki/wolfowitz debate, ideological context in had the debate occurs. the ideological context has two dimensions. first dimension is that wolfowitz came from a political camp generally referred to as neoconservatives who are committed to the proposition that the united states possessed the capacity to export democracy under t nations living autocrats like saddam hussein yearned to be liberated and to embrace democracy. and that, therefore, this -- our capacity and their yearning would combine to make this transition to democracy relatively neat and easy. and shinseki is saying, ain't going to happen that way. that's one reason why wolfowitz would go after shinseki. but there's a second reason. relating to a theory of war that also had come to be something of an id

appreciate it in the sense of the -- the id logical context in which this debate -- let's call it the shinseki wolfowitz debate, the debate in which it occurs and the context has two dimensions. the first dimension is that wolfowitz came from a political camp, referred to the neoconservatives committed to the proposition that the united states possessed the capacity to explore democracy. and that nations living under autocrats like saddam hussein yearn yearned to be liberated and embrace democracy. and therefore our capacity and their yearning would combine to make this transition to democracy relatively neat and's s si. he's saying ain't going to happen that way. that's one reason why wolfowitz would go after him. but there's a second reason. relating to a theory of war that had become an ideology at this time. and the theory of war was one that basically said that advanced information technology, forces equipped with advanced information technology, an ability to identify targets, to strike targets with great precision, to act with great speed, the forces possessing these abilities would be

host: what did shinseki do as far as accommodating that?asically put in a plan that all of the backlog claims will be resolved by 2015. what is upsetting to us is that it happened in the first place. 97% of these claims were being handled manually. not even automated. so what are we doing when we open up the doors for more opportunity for claims, and then not having a plan in place to handle that efficiency? that is like saying i sell online and have no shipping process an order. you have to have this set up correctly. now we have a plan by 2015. what about the veterans that are dying in the meantime? last year in 2012, there were almost 20,000 veterans that died before they even receive their benefits claim. that is 53 today. done. primarily a lot of agent orange men that suffer from being on. it is really disturbing that i got this way at all. the plan that is in place, we're keeping the gas on them to resolve this, but what they're doing is allowing a lot of workers to work overtime, 20 hours overtime, and it is a funding issue. people h

shinseki do as far as accommodating that?uest: he basically put in a plan that all of the backlog claims will be resolved by 2015. what is upsetting to us is that it happened in the first place. 97% of these claims were being handled manually. not even automated. so what are we doing when we open up the doors for more opportunity for claims, and then not having a plan in place to handle that efficiency? that is like saying i sell online and have no shipping process an order. you have to have this set up correctly. now we have a plan by 2015. what about the veterans that are dying in the meantime? last year in 2012, there were almost 20,000 veterans that died before they even receive their benefits claim. that is 53 today. done. orangely a lot of agent men that suffer from being on. it is really disturbing that i got this way at all. the plan that is in place, we're keeping the gas on them to resolve this, but what they're doing is allowing a lot of workers to work overtime, 20 hours overtime, and it is a funding issue. people