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Lawmakers Want Answers to Reports of Poor Conditions at Walter Reed Army Hospital

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

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WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on Tuesday urged Defense Secretary Robert Gates to respond to reports of poor treatment and conditions for injured troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Sens. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., sent a letter to Gates requesting he investigate the conditions for injured soldiers there, as well as at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., also sent a letter to Gates.

"If conditions at Walter Reed, the crown jewel of military health care facilities, have degraded to the point where mouse traps are handed out to patients, how can we feel confident that our troops and veterans truly have the care and transition assistance they have been promised at any facility across the country?" Mikulski and Murray wrote.

The Washington Post recently reported that the 113-acre institution that serves as a surgical hospital and rehab facility for wounded soldiers is deteriorating. Building 18, which houses hundreds of soldiers recovering from battle wounds, reportedly offers poor living conditions.

"We've done our duty. We fought the war. We came home wounded. Fine. But whoever the people are back here who are supposed to give us the easy transition should be doing it," Marine Sgt. Ryan Groves, 26, an amputee who lived at Walter Reed for 16 months, told the Post. "We don't know what to do. The people who are supposed to know don't have the answers. It's a nonstop process of stalling."

Slaughter said the reports must be addressed immediately.

"It is deeply troubling to think that veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much are being left largely alone to struggle with injuries without the care and attention they need," Slaughter said in a statement. "And while I am glad to hear of changes underway at Walter Reed, it shouldn't take a newspaper exposé to spur action on behalf of our wounded soldiers."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,253154,00.html
 
I caught a little bit of the Don Imus show this a.m.

He was literally screaming: "Its not Bush's fault!". I've never seen him so angry. And the weird thing is that his anger wasn't at the conditions the wounded troops live in - it was at "liberals" who are blaming the Bush admin.


Bizarre.
 
I watched a segment on The Lehrer News Hour last nite on PBS.
Pretty bad stuff for an administration who claims to support the troops and calls those who dont all kinds of bad names. Well I have a name for the current admin. Lying hypocrites.
 
This is the "liberal" media at its best: ferreting out government corruption and malfeasance. I gotta hand it to the Washington Post. Even Bush "claims" he never knew about this, until he read it in the Post.
 
No, to the Right, "supporting our troops" means putting a little yellow sticker on your car that says, "Support our troops."
 
Jarod said:
No, to the Right, "supporting our troops" means putting a little yellow sticker on your car that says, "Support our troops."
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Oh Yeah, I forgot that is all you have to do to qualify as a neocon troop supporter.
Silly me.
And the little sticker/magnet was probably made in China :)
 
I saw a car the other day, where the sticker had melted into the paint, all that was left was a rust mark the shape of those silly yellow stickers.

I thought it was a fitting simbol of the sentiment the sticker used to express.
 
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