I also use the VA and the improvement is remarkable over the past almost 6 years.
The Conservative RePukes and their ilk don't like Shinseki because he told the truth about Iraq.
Shinseki publicly clashed with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during the planning of the war in Iraq over how many troops the United States would need to keep in Iraq for the postwar occupation of that country. As Army Chief of Staff, General Shinseki testified to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee that "something in the order of several hundred thousand soldiers" would probably be required for postwar Iraq. This was an estimate far higher than the figure being proposed by Secretary Rumsfeld in his invasion plan, and it was rejected in strong language by both Rumsfeld and his Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, who was another chief planner of the invasion and occupation.
They want him out of there for other reasons
Received 2 Purple Hearts in Viet-Nam
Paul Dundes Wolfowitz and his Mentor Darth Cheney and other chicken Hawk NeoCons dodged the Viet-Nam Draft and let the children of the poor fight and die for amerikan corporate interests.