This is no way to treat a wounded warrior: Walter Reed Hospital’s flaws

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This is no way to treat a wounded warrior: Walter Reed Hospital’s flaws are indefensible

A day at Walter Reed Army Medical Center is an eye-opener - about our soldiers, our government generally and the Bush administration.

I visited the renowned hospital after The Washington Post exposed serious problems at the center, where as many as one-fourth of our injured soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan are treated.

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In recent days, the commander at Walter Reed, Maj. Gen. George Weightman, and the Army’s surgeon general, Lt. Gen. Kevin Kiley, have been all over TV, saying the problems at the facility are being fixed and that they are “extremely proud” of the work their staffs are doing.

But the point is that crumbling infrastructure, inhumane bureaucracy and inadequate treatment for mental disorders have been known about for years and have been permitted to continue.

The month before The Post’s series ran, a conference on “quality of life” problems faced by soldiers, their families and civilian staff at Walter Reed found a long list of “issues.” They included: soldiers not getting benefits to travel as scheduled; lack of direction for emergency family care; unequal benefits based on the locale where a soldier is injured and not on the extent of injuries; and no overall plan to help wounded warriors through their convalescence.

Ann McFeatters
http://news.bostonherald.com/editorial/view.bg?articleid=184649&format=&page=1

Bush and Rumsfeld broke the Army. Now, they're breaking the lives of soldiers.
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2007/02/bush-and-rumsfeld-broke-army-now-theyre.html

[Spinzonner]

1. When they don't care at the top

as Bushco has shown again, and again, and again, all is possible.

And probable

[Monkeyman]

2. K&R Enough said by me

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3. Please don't stop. Thanks

we need to make everybody in this world see what's being done
This is very disturbing
200,000 veterans are homeless
Vets on the Street
Hundreds of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are ending up homeless. How could this happen?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17315490/site/newsweek/

[Monkeyman]

4. The new Number of Homeless Veterans by VA 's Numbers are 250,000

I will never stop to the day they put me in the ground. Then I will haunt them

[babylonsister]

5. Kick! This is so full of 'issues' that aren't being addressed. nt