Comments on: Gen. Admits Flaws In Soldier Care Units

In The Wake Of Walter Reed Scandal, Wounded Warriers Program Not Working As Planned

[wogerwabbit]

Posted by Mrs_B1 at 09:48 PM

Wouldn''t it be a better world if your husband had no patients and was laid off? I''m not disputing your rant, but supporting the troops does not include sending them off repeatedly to potential death. Any gambler knows the odds narrow over time and eventually... boom, your dead... or maimed, or witless. Your husband has an investment in this tradegy, and God bless him and you for answering the call as the patriots you are as I did before you, but... the criminals that got us here should and will (eventually) be hanged. I really want live long enough to see if Bush can out man Saddam on the gallows. That should be real interesting.

[wardoglrs]

You think Obama care''s? Do you think any of them care?
The Dem''s and the Repub''s dont. They have had there way and you still vote them in at the expense of your children and future. Dr Paul was and still is your best hope I suggest you listen before you lose it all.

[mrs_b1]

You all, including the reporter, have no idea what you''re talking about. You hear percentages and statistics, but you do not know the reality of the situation with WTU''s, or as the reported called them, "so called" Warrior Transition Units. The Soldiers and Civilians that are responsible for implementing this program work harder than anyone I know. My husband is a Soldier, a Physician and a hospital Administrator. He and the people that work with him have dedicated a huge amount of time and effort into the planning and running of WTU''s. In addition to that, they run an Army Community Hospital that provides all kinds of physical and mental health care for many thousands of soldiers, family members, veterans and retirees. Try walking in their shoes for even a day. They love our soldiers, and are striving to provide for their every need. Instead of flapping your jaws, try supporting our troops.

[wogerwabbit]

I worked in the recreation department of a VA Hospital in 1975 as part of the VA work study program while going to college (hey, MCVET, do I know you?). Although a nightmare of a job for my psyche, it was inspiration to the young man I was then to see the selfless dedication of the people who worked there... that they cared so much... and shed tears over old cantankerous soldiers with gnarled nicotined stained fingers passing who''d been there since WWI. I however, reserved my tears for the guys my age... flipped out... lost... destroyed by war... alive but dead and uncounted. To fail our warriors like this as this administration has, is to me, their biggest war crime. Neocons beware, we don''t want accountability, we want retribution for your crimes. Sucks to be you, heh?

[mh4cbs1]

ALALABAD, Afghanistan (AFP) - Official investigations have found that US-led air strikes a week ago killed 64 people, most of them women and children, the heads of separate investigation teams said Friday.

WHEN WILL THE ENDLESS DEATH AND DESTRUCTION BY THE US STOP !!

Lied into Needless War

Hundreds of Thousands shot or blown to bits

HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of Dollars WASTED

FIVE MILES of US Troop flag-draped COFFINS

War Profiteers, Haliburton, Blackwater, Abu Gharib, Secret Renditions....

Tax Cuts for the Rich! $4/gal gas for the rest of us

Good jobs exported overseas

Corporate Welfare in the BILLIONS

Corporate Lobbyists writing our Laws

Deregulate Banking -- GHousing Foreclosure MESS



WANT MORE OF THE SAME? VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN

[mcvet]

This is the same quality of medical care we will all be entitled to under universal health care. Can''''t wait!

Posted by mjvw2 at 08:13 PM : Jul 11, 2008
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You know this HOW?? The VA has for a very long time given Veteran''s high quality care and taken care of them when no one else would. That is UNTIL the Republican''s of 2000 came along. Now Veterans have few if ANY programs that actually work anymore... I KNOW, I''m a Disabled Veteran. To have someone simply ignore or try to make this MASSIVE failure go away by making this kind of statement.. well lets just say the Swastika is showing!! We can and should debate the WORST Health Care System in the industrialized World, costing American''s MORE and getting less than any other but to throw our VA System in with that debate... even for a Nazi''s it''s beneath human dignity. Sieg Heil Bush

[wogerwabbit]

This is the same quality of medical care we will all be entitled to under universal health care. Can''''t wait!

Posted by mjvw2 at 08:13 PM

WRONG! This is what happens with poor planning. This is what happens when you go to war expecting to be greeted as liberators instead of invaders. This is what happens when you go to war with leaders who are corporate ****** who value profits over life (oh, how the Christian right has been bamboozled). This is the product of the neglect of the uncaring and unknowing chickenhawks who''ve succeded in their pledge to drown our government in the bathtub. Yes, too much government really blows, but no government is anarchy. The corporation''s minions now run virtually our entire government... CEO''s, lobbyists, friends of friends and pioneer donors wayward children run everything by doing nothing... that hurts the bottom line, profits... and selling out their country and their souls as well.

[cbsblogger]

We all deserve the same nationalized healthcare that Congress and the President gets.

[cbsblogger]

There is no money for vet care and no money for boots on the ground. All the money goes to the greedy and scum bag Cheney friendly corporations that profiteer over war.

[mjvw2]

This is the same quality of medical care we will all be entitled to under universal health care. Can''t wait!

[sgtrds10-4]

The Bush administration is running this war like a business (which of course makes sense considering it was started by them for pure profit) and when a soldier is wounded beyond the ability to go back and be cannon fodder again, then to them that soldier becomes a liability. An expense to be written off as cheaply as possible and to hell with the morality of it. They do not see the troops as human beings, just assets. They do not care.

[ramos937]

Sorry, meant to say not limited to the USA.

[ramos937]

As best my poor old memory can remember it:

"God and the soldier, all men adore
In time of danger and not before
When the danger is passed, and all things righted
God is forgotten, and the soldier slighted"

Source: Incription before WW1 in a bunker in Gibralter by an unknown Brittish soldier.

This is an international disgrace and limitted to the USA.

[toolmangler-2009]

We use to call it going for a ''section eight'' Hmmmmm times are a changing.