Support our Troops...Not If They're Wounded

[L.Wood]

With a draft-dodging, corporate-grubbing Chicken Hawk leading around an AWOL jr.political hack just how much care does anyone think Wounded Warriors will recieve?

...................Wounded Warriors, Empty Promises

"The bad news about the Army’s treatment of wounded soldiers keeps coming. The generals keep apologizing and insisting that things are getting better, but they are not.

"The latest low moment for Army brass came on Tuesday in Washington, where a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee held a hearing to examine the sorry state of the Army Medical Action Plan. That’s the plan to prevent the kind of systematic neglect and mistreatment exposed by The Washington Post last year at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

"After a flurry of apologies, firings, investigations and reports, the Army resolved to streamline and improve case management for wounded soldiers. Under the plan, “warrior transition units” would swiftly deliver excellent care to troops so they could return to duty or be discharged into the veterans’ medical system. Each soldier would be assigned a team to look over his or her care: a physician, a nurse and a squad leader. It all sounded sensible and comprehensive.

It has not worked out so well. ........

"The nation’s responsibility to care for the wounded from Iraq and Afghanistan will extend for decades. After Tuesday’s hearing, we are left pondering the simple questions asked at the outset by Representative Susan Davis, the California Democrat who is chairwoman of the military personnel subcommittee: Why did the Army fail to adequately staff its warrior transition units? Why did it fail to predict the surge in demand? And why did it take visits from a Congressional subcommittee to prod the Army into recognizing and promising — yet again — to fix the problem?"

New York Times

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

To answer your question - about as much as they've received. I cannot think of a single problem America has needed to address that hasn't gotten significantly worse under this administration. There is one Texan trait W and Cheney picked up in their years in Texas - if you can't be the best, be the worst. (Texas and America deserve better than that - sometimes were not that bright - the state or the nation - but we're mostly good-hearted.)