More love for our troops from the top...
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 02:51
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Geezer, with ALL the f***ups going on regarding the vets coming home from Iraq, you wanna tell me Uncle Sam cares at all? ....so, no conspiracy- I can go with that- but you have to see me a 'they don't give a s**t' in return, K?
Chrisisall
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Quote:It was one I had seen earlier, so I looked it up. Sheesh!
Then perhaps you should have posted and cited an article which wasn't mainly an accusation of a conspiracy
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"Exactly what a Left winger would be expected to say, to paint a distorted picture of the media landscape."
If you had looked it up (using searchable quotes) you would have seen that I quoted an article from a website that detests the left and the organization, and spent many many words trying to make a connection between Hillary Clinton and Media Matters. And couldn't.
So, to get back to the original point, no, none of this comes from 'Media Matters'. So rest assured the information isn't tainted by that horrible source.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Geezer, with ALL the f***ups going on regarding the vets coming home from Iraq, you wanna tell me Uncle Sam cares at all? ....so, no conspiracy- I can go with that- but you have to see me a 'they don't give a s**t' in return, K?
I agree that there have been some F-ups, and one is too many, but I'm not sure that there are more than in any bureaucracy. Veteran's benefits are right up there with Social Seurity and income tax refunds as issues which cause letters to congressmen and congressional inquiries to the agency. The Fort Carson issue is a good example, and has resulted in a GAO audit. If there were a disproportionate number, it'd be all over the news.
Don't forget that you're part of "Uncle Sam" too. Your representatives are the ones who set the DOD and VA budgets, and if expenses go up, the VA can't raise prices to cover it, but has to try and get more $ out of Congress. I'd be happy to chip in an extra few hundred a year in taxes for vet's benefits, along with what I contribute to DAV and other organizations.
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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Originally posted by SignyM:
It was one I had seen earlier, so I looked it up. Sheesh!
Okay.
But, really, does the GAO audit of PTSD mis-diagnosis make you feel any better about the situation? I think we both agree the actions at Ft. Carson were pretty bad, and the audit is gonna be system-wide. When it's complete, they'll publish a full report. Having experienced a routine (i.e. not congressionally requested) GAO audit in the past, I can tell you they miss nothing.
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Quote:*paraphrases Sean Connery from Outland*
Originally posted by Geezer:
Your representatives are the ones who set the DOD and VA budgets
My representatives are s**t.
But thanks for a most reasonable response, sir Chrisisall
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Quote:I don't know because I haven't had much time and I haven't looked up your link. (Xmas coming and all that)Hope to get to it soon.
But, really, does the GAO audit of PTSD mis-diagnosis make you feel any better about the situation? I think we both agree the actions at Ft. Carson were pretty bad, and the audit is gonna be system-wide. When it's complete, they'll publish a full report. Having experienced a routine (i.e. not congressionally requested) GAO audit in the past, I can tell you they miss nothing.
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'A Soldier's Officer'
By Dana Priest and Anne Hull
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, December 2, 2007; Page A01
In a nondescript conference room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 1st Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside listened last week as an Army prosecutor outlined the criminal case against her in a preliminary hearing. The charges: attempting suicide and endangering the life of another soldier while serving in Iraq.
Her hands trembled as Maj. Stefan Wolfe, the prosecutor, argued that Whiteside, now a psychiatric outpatient at Walter Reed, should be court-martialed. After seven years of exemplary service, the 25-year-old Army reservist faces the possibility of life in prison if she is tried and convicted.
At the hearing, Wolfe, who had already warned Whiteside's lawyer of the risk of using a "psychobabble" defense, pressed a senior psychiatrist at Walter Reed to justify his diagnosis.
"I'm not here to play legal games," Col. George Brandt responded angrily, according to a recording of the hearing. "I am here out of the genuine concern for a human being that's breaking and that is broken. She has a severe and significant illness. Let's treat her as a human being, for Christ's sake!"
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The Hotel Aftermath
Inside Mologne House, the Survivors of War Wrestle With Military Bureaucracy and Personal Demons
By Anne Hull and Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, February 19, 2007; Page A01
The guests of Mologne House have been blown up, shot, crushed and shaken, and now their convalescence takes place among the chandeliers and wingback chairs of the 200-room hotel on the grounds of Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Oil paintings hang in the lobby of this strange outpost in the war on terrorism, where combat's urgency has been replaced by a trickling fountain in the garden courtyard. The maimed and the newly legless sit in wheelchairs next to a pond, watching goldfish turn lazily through the water.
But the wounded of Mologne House are still soldiers -- Hooah! -- so their lives are ruled by platoon sergeants. Each morning they must rise at dawn for formation, though many are half-snowed on pain meds and sleeping pills.
In Room 323 the alarm goes off at 5 a.m., but Cpl. Dell McLeod slumbers on. His wife, Annette, gets up and fixes him a bowl of instant oatmeal before going over to the massive figure curled in the bed. An Army counselor taught her that a soldier back from war can wake up swinging, so she approaches from behind.
"Dell," Annette says, tapping her husband. "Dell, get in the shower."
"Dell!" she shouts.
Finally, the yawning hulk sits up in bed. "Okay, baby," he says. An American flag T-shirt is stretched over his chest. He reaches for his dog tags, still the devoted soldier of 19 years, though his life as a warrior has become a paradox. One day he's led on stage at a Toby Keith concert with dozens of other wounded Operation Iraqi Freedom troops from Mologne House, and the next he's sitting in a cluttered cubbyhole at Walter Reed, fighting the Army for every penny of his disability.
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What would we do without the Washington Post? I have such respect for those guys. This is an interesting thread. Living in a military area, this has a lot of impact on the people around me. I am definitely going to keep up with this one.
Oley
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