ƒc History has come full circle once again in Bush's Bizarro World.   Wounded, criple and crazy all at the hands of a system that is overwhelmed.   We only have to think back to Katrina to realize how out of control this administration can be.   Now we get a glimse of the nightmare world that many Vietnam Vets went through in much the same kind of system.   This is very sad note in our 21st Century Bush's Amerika...

washingtonpost.com Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility

By Dana Priest and Anne Hull
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, February 18, 2007; Page A01

Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan's room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see the bathtub on the floor above through a rotted hole. The entire building, constructed between the world wars, often smells like greasy carry-out. Signs of neglect are everywhere: mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, stained carpets, cheap mattresses.

This is the world of Building 18, not the kind of place where Duncan expected to recover when he was evacuated to Walter Reed Army Medical Center from Iraq last February with a broken neck and a shredded left ear, nearly dead from blood loss. But the old lodge, just outside the gates of the hospital and five miles up the road from the White House, has housed hundreds of maimed soldiers recuperating from injuries suffered in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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It’s getting worse
by pastordan
Sat Feb 17th, 2007 at 18:58:21 PST

There's more, much more: disoriented soldiers with fractured skulls being handed a map and told to find their way across the base, psychologically fragile vets being left alone in an unsecured building on a drug-dealing corner, bureaucratic nightmares that swallow up months of work at making improvements. I'm with Aravosis on this:

Forget the agenda Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Reid had planned. It's high time we helped our troops. And if the Republicans won't do it, then we will. Let's ensure that the American people and our troops know which party got them into this mess, and which party is getting them out of it. Let the hearings and investigation and legislation begin until we fix these problems once and for all.

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Shame of the Bush Admin — deplorable conditions in Army hospital
by Pam Spaulding February 18th, 2007

Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army’s Top Medical Facility. He sends them to fight in his military misadventures without enough armor, wears the best and the brightest down with stop-loss orders, and now, in the WaPo, we learn how Dear Leader takes care of his war-injured men and women. When you read this mind-boggling piece by Dana Priest and Anne Hull about Walter Reed Army Medical Center, one can only imagine what kind of hailstorm of criticism would hit if a Dem sat in the Oval Office.

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