Sunday’s Washington Post gives us this rosy look into how our veterans are being treated:

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.

These are conditions that were allowed to come to being under a Republican controlled Congress with a Republican President. The Republicans in the Senate won’t even talk about the war these guys are fighting in, then if they get hurt they get subjected to this? This is a moral outrage! Democrats need to fix this now – not because it will help them politically (even though it will), but because it is the right thing to do.

Oh and don’t forget – Bush wants to cut even more money from veterans this year. He don’t give a shit about them, except for the fact that they are playing in his little “war game” he has been dreaming of since the 90’s.