11 January NY Times - Bush’s Speech Is Vindication for a General by Thom Shanker.

After President Bush told the nation Wednesday night that he was ordering a rapid increase of American forces in Iraq, Gen. Eric K. Shinseki was not among the retired officers to offer instant analysis on television.

But the president’s new strategy — with its explicit acknowledgment that not enough troops had been sent to Iraq to establish control — was a vindication for General Shinseki, the former Army chief of staff who publicly told Congress as much just before the war began.

First vilified and then marginalized by civilian members of the Bush administration after those comments, General Shinseki retired and faded away, even as politicians and commentators increasingly cited his prescience...