Comments on: Army Secretary Resigns In Wake Of Scandal

Comes After Disclosures Of Substandard Conditions For Wounded Soldiers At Walter Reed

[sclaires]

Weightman was only a patsy for Kiley, Harvey, and Rumsfeld. He had been there only 6 months and hadn't had time to get things done. If they are contracting out work to civilian companies the way they are doing at army bases, then it is understandable why things were allowed to developed the way they did. Now a man has had his army career ruined so he might as well go ahead and put in his retirement papers. As far as I am concerned, they can court martial Kiley for incompentence which showed when he was in charge of WR. As for the VA hospitals, they are not as modern as civilian hospitals. Oh, they do some procedures when connected to a medical school but they don't have the privacy for the patients that a civilian hospital has. I have heard complaints about one VA hospital where they are not making appointments the way they should for procedures. Then this same VA hospital gave erroneous out about a friend of mine where he could not get disability even though he was suffering from PTSD, agent orange, and dementia. This occurred after he had retired from the army and was working a civilian job. Both WR and the VA need people who will show compansion for the people who need it.

[pattipace7]

Sorry to repeat myself as President Bush has done twice in the past nineteen months when he mentioned the menace of these roadside bombs in Iraq, and as I recall, were some of them where also made. Also please expect the number of new young Veterans that we will have in the year 2027, that%u2019s only Ten years from now, and most likely, after the war with Iran. ;
Walter Reed Hospital is actually a step higher than most of the Veterans Affairs medical centers which are all grossly under funded and under staffed. You do not have to look any further back than February 9, 2007 to find someone to be held accountable for these problems. Just read the press release from former house Vets Chair Steve Buyer, as he praises VA Secretary Jim Nicholson for a great VA budget and goes on to say; "this budget will allow them (veterans) to receive the care they need and lead full lives." Mr. Gates what you said March 1st is very commendable about the care and welfare of our veterans demands the highest standard of excellence and commitment that we can muster as a government. What we always needed as veterans is quality health care, respect from a knowledgeable health care provider, and the chance to resume a comfortable life as a productive member of the society for which we offered to give up our own life to serve and protect. The only solution to this problem is for at least four billion in EMERGENCY funding be immediately allocated to the Veterans Affairs medical centers.

[dirtydog55]

"Dirtydog,,, Are you going to be affected by Boing's loss of the C17 contract ???" Posted by j-whitman

No J, fortunately. I'm working on an unclassified aerospace project. Look up 'X-37' on Wikipedia.

[lars008-2009]

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[forthepeaple]

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[starleo146]

hey doer of deeds lars 008 quit reading theodore roosevelt encyclopedia and be a doer as you say . Youy are a pitiful waste of humanity.

[energyecon]

Harvey was a Rumsfeld toady from the ranks of defense contractors sucking up to him for the orignal form of pork barrel spending, war contracts (look it up, US Civil War food mainstay was salted pork in barrels). He fired the wrong general, Gen. Weightman had been in place for less than six months and had been trying to work within the system to fix it. Harvey replaced him with the incompetent SOB who let the vets languish during his tenure as the head of Walter Reed prior to Weightman getting there. I pray Gates continues to kick @ss and take names and clean up the ranks of the top brass from the suck ups and yes men that Rumsfeld uniformly selected.

The larger crime that will come to light is the Bushco budget treatment of veteran health spending, which has seen double digit increases recently with more to come, and for some time after we disengage in Iraq in whatever form that takes. The 'balanced budget' fantasy submitted on the Hill envisions flat and then falling veteran health spending - more neoCON support for the troops.

[lars008-2009]

peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. Theodore Roosevelt

[starleo146]

Pres Bush is going to check the V.A. hospitals good luck they have been ignored since world war 2 and after vietnam those poor guys coulndn't get in a door what about agent orange and what about the gulf war forget it the veterans have totally been ignored and the the hospitals have as well who is the guy in wash.d.c. in charge of veterans and there hospitals Bye Bye who ever you are.

[lars008-2009]

%u201CIt is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.%u201D Theodore Roosevelt

"Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger." (1894) Theodore Roosevelt

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing. - The Outlook December 21, 1895 Theodore Roosevelt %u2026..