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- kazumaSHELL, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Conditions like that are not acceptable for anyone.
- kensmithkw, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Conditions like that are not acceptable for our vets.
- washingtonydc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10This is quite the Friday evening news dump.
The army is running around like a chicken with its head cut off right now. There are entire offices who have nothing to do with Walter Reed scrambling all over the country to get their own stuff in shape--just in case the spotlight gets shone on them.
It really makes you think what would have happened if Gates was the SecDef when Abu Ghraib surfaced. - Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8And yet they still voted for Bush. Go figure.
Yes, I am aware this has been a downward spiral for a long time, but for someone who ran on somehow being closer to the troops than someone who actually served in combat... it speaks volumes. - sllim, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Come on now, do you people really think this is a new problem? This has been a major problem ever since Vietnam. If you can longer be of use to the war machine, be prepared to be discarded.
- twentymeters, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Dana Priest and Anne Hull are awesome because finally this story has garnered the attention it deserves! The fear of GOD must be instilled in these bureaucrats! Heads will roll!
I'll give up *my* tax cut to help these people who fight our unjust wars! There's NO WAY these soldiers should be made to suffer for our failings anymore!
If you're not outraged you're not PAYING ATTENTION! - knomevol, on 10/12/2007, -7/+123100 American Soldiers dead for admitted lies should not be acceptable either - but noone's saying much of anything about that.
Rats or death.
Hmm. - totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7And the Bush Admin chastises war critics for not supporting the troops?
- washingtonydc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Dana Priest also broke the secret CIA prisons story last year. Her and Hull definitely deserve pulitzers for the Walter Reed expose. journalism at its finest.
- unknownsoldierX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Put more ribbon-shaped "support the troops" bumper stickers on our cars?
- Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I thought it was cake or death? And then chicken if they run out of cake.
- ichbinladen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3He needed to resign, but it appears that Gates only forced him to resign to save his own ass. Everything that makes the military look bad reflects on this administration, and Gates was supposed to make everything all better. Now Walter Reed "***** it up" for him and he's pissed, looking for someone to blame. He needs to look higher up the Chain of command to his own pathetic boss to see where the problem originated.
- rstevens, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Vets, we salute you. We respect you. We love you. What can we do as Americans to make your lives better?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2way to go rumsfeld
- guerrilla_suit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is where people should be putting their money, and efforts where their mouths are. Support the Troops means more than just a sticker on the back of your pick up truck.
Everyone should have written a letter, email or made a phone call to their elected officials concerning this. If you didn't, scrape that thing off your bumper. Consider this event at the next time you decide not to vote.
Even these guys are scapegoats... Military hospitals didn't have enough doctors or funds to support a patient load before the war. With the war, injured vets are getting the best of what's there, but there just isn't enough there. Medical care has suffered for years, in the military. Cuts in services, cuts in staff, cuts in locations that are able to care for people.
It's a mess.
What's makes things worse, is that high ranking military members get better treatment, more individual attention or better levels of service, and wouldn't see a lot of shortfalls in their visits to hospitals. - jstohler, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Two down, how many more to go?
- MacBastard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is so shameful - we send our soldiers into harm's way; we should do all we can for them when they come back from the battlefield injured, broken, and needing years of therapy both physical and mental.
This is the underside of war where the current administration has continued to take away from our veterans, both the newly returned and the ones that have been back home for decades. I say that for all the injured that have given health and sanity for their nation, we should not be sparing expense.
I can't believe that conditions have come to this in a hospital for the newly returned, but I have also seen for years the gradual decrease in services for veterans with mental health problems and chronic physical ailments stemming from injuries received during service. I have seen this with my own eyes with veterans in my own family, and with friends and acquaintances who have served.
How can this be? It seems like we are breaking a covenant with our servicemen and women that if something happened to them, we would do all we can to take care of them and try to make them whole again.
Of all the mismanagement, mistakes, arrogance, and pure blundering this war has given our soldiers to deal with from the administration, the fact that we are just cutting loose those that gave a piece of their life for the mission makes me sick to my stomach.
The Bastard - Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It kind of fits in with their policy on abortion: Once you're born, we don't give a damn.
Once you've fought... well, you know the rest. - n0xz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Damn Bush just asked another 98 BILLIONS for Iraq and he cannot spent a few hundreds million to support those who risked their life in Iraq and help them get their life back together.
This is a ***** shame !
I'd say 2% of the war chest budget go to support the vets at home ! ***** the Republicans let this happened and turned their eyes away and the Democrats who have no guts to stand against this corrupt Administration ! - biggyfred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@loneranger85: Returning injured vets are living in a *****, but this just has to be political. It must suck to be that big a scumbag.
/liberal
/ex-Army - knomevol, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7you may digg him down, but you cannot take away the truth of the comment.
if i could only count how many homeless vets there are who served their country and came home only to be forgotten.
the administration is only acting like it cares for "the troops" because they fear a military coup to restore the Constitution of the United States of America - ArnoldLayne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How does your comment apply to this hospital scandal? If anything, conservatives are confused about what is right and what is wrong.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1He's a patsy.
The problem is that the policies of the administration have created many more casualties than the system is funded to handle.
One way to fix this would be to actually spend money on our vets. Another stop, that I would prefer, would be to get out of this dumb war and not get into any more of them. - mferreri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is a result of years of government red tape finally being exposed. The good thing about the Bush presidency is that the press has unleashed a feeding frenzy to expose everything done by the government as if it is his fault. First FEMA, now VA Hospitals which have been neglected for decades. The military does take advantage of cutting edge technology caring for thier troops on the field. The saddest thing is the crap that our veterans face when they need medical care.
THIS SHOULD MAKE YOU THINK TWICE ABOUT WANTING GOVERNMENT RUN UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE. - onehandband, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is another obvious OVERSITE by our gov. as was the katrina desaster. it should be clear to every tax paying citizen in AMERICA that once you are unable to pay taxes, rather from natural causes or reasons brought on by politics our gov. would rather you not be here.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Do the wrong thing and liberals go ballistic. Do the right thing and liberals go ballistic. You can't win with these people.
- jeanette3654, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4Anyone who joins the military is insane, DU and so forth, but after these idiots join they deserve the best care money can buy!
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