CNN just reported that the Army Chief of Staff said he had no idea of the problems at Walter Reed (why do I have problems buying that?). They also reported that the Army will be working “stringently” to correct the problems. Interesting that he had no idea what was going on right across the street.
From the White House that is. They are spinning as hard as they can on the Walter Reed fiasco. Tony Snow showed this spin during the first part of today’s presser: The problem is that this spin isn’t going to work. Basically Snow is saying they don’t want to talk about it. They are trying […]
Starting with a tour of the run down building 18 and then followed up with a one on one with Jon Soltz of VoteVets.org, Keith exposed the problems I have been talking about at Walter Reed this week. This has become a national disgrace, one that points directly at the administration. As Jon points out, […]
More than a day after the WaPo exposes the horrible way some of our wounded soldiers are being treated at Walter Reed and we still don’t even have mention of it from the right-wing blogs. Yup – these poor soldiers are no longer of any value to them because they aren’t out there “killin some […]
Aravosis is all over this story. He has more posts to read here, here and here. We can not sit by and let this happen to our soldiers. It is bad enough they were sent into a war based on lies, but then to treat them like this after they get injured there is beyond […]
This is absolutely appalling. People go to fight in Bush’s bullshit war, then loose limbs and this is how he treats them: Perks and stardom do not come to every amputee. Sgt. David Thomas, a gunner with the Tennessee National Guard, spent his first three months at Walter Reed with no decent clothes; medics in […]