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PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE ABOUT FEBRUARY
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I HAVE BAD NEWS
SO THIS IS HOW WE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS
Credit: Bahram Mark Sobhani/San Antonio Express-News
The Washington Post today published an article about the lack of space for wounded soldiers who still need help after months of recovery. The fact that this country after almost 5 years of war is placing our wounded troops in a place like this is pure BULLSHIT.
We are giving tax breaks to people that do not need them while we put our troops in a place like this. These are the same BASTARDS that say SUPPORT OUR TROOPS with bumper stickers and flags.
The Wounded and Walter Reed
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.
The common perception of Walter Reed is of a surgical hospital that shines as the crown jewel of military medicine. But 5 1/2 years of sustained combat have transformed the venerable 113-acre institution into something else entirely -- a holding ground for physically and psychologically damaged outpatients. Almost 700 of them -- the majority soldiers, with some Marines -- have been released from hospital beds but still need treatment or are awaiting bureaucratic decisions before being discharged or returned to active duty.
They suffer from brain injuries, severed arms and legs, organ and back damage, and various degrees of post-traumatic stress. Their legions have grown so exponentially -- they outnumber hospital patients at Walter Reed 17 to 1 -- that they take up every available bed on post and spill into dozens of nearby hotels and apartments leased by the Army. The average stay is 10 months, but some have been stuck there for as long as two years.
By Dana Priest and Anne Hull, Washington Post Staff Writers
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MORE THINGS I DON'T GET
1.) Did Bush JUST LEARN about the problem brewing in Afghanistan?
2.) Why do some of these right-wing sleaze bags make quotes up when they can be easily fact checked and proven wrong.
3.) Are we fighting for only IRAQIE freedom while we want to stifle Freedom here in America. Like freedom of speech. Think about it.
BREAKING NEWS
Britney goes bald.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
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Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.
PRETTY GOOD JOKES
GOOD PACKAGE
ZEN FOR THE MODERN WORLD
13. Some days you're the bug; some days you're the windshield.
14. Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.
15. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.
16. A closed mouth gathers no foot.
17. Duct tape is like 'The Force,' it has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
18. There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.
19. Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.
20. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
21. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
22. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night
Posted by thebscorner at February 18, 2007 07:34 AM
