Bush to nominate new defense official for health(another cya after the administration was exposed)

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush plans to replace the assistant defense secretary for health affairs, the White House said on Thursday, two days after a review was ordered into outpatient care for wounded troops.

The Pentagon said William Winkenwerder had planned to leave his post since last year and the announcement was not related to problems at the military's flagship Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, highlighted in recent press reports.

"This announcement has no bearing on current events whatsoever," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.

Bush plans to nominate S. Ward Casscells to replace Winkenwerder, the White House said. Casscells now serves as medicine and public health professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

The nomination is subject to U.S. Senate confirmation.

more:http://mobile.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22160094.htm

too little too late *! :puke: Are we killing them over there so we don't have to take care of them at home? :mad:

[Mnemosyne]

1. K and R, to keep it out there. n/t

[Doctor_J]

2. Nominate Bernie Kerik

He can use some of the private hospital rooms to bang his mistresses.

[radfringe]

3. This announcement has no bearing on current events whatsoever,"

yeah, right.... :eyes: