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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
From what the Washington post and Reuters are reporting he got much better treatment than most of the wounded GIs.
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That is a major understatement. Even Rumsfeld's wife (brought in discretely by other volunteers) discovered how bad things were in Walter Reed - and could not get Rumsfeld to solve it. Once the stories about the contempt for soldier in Walter Reed were leaked, even volunteers were suddenly attacked by the Walter Reed bureaucracy.
The story about Woodruff is not the story. The real story is what was peripheral - the contempt for soldiers even in Walter Reed Hospital.
How much contempt have we for our troops? Interesting last night was the NC governor on Charlie Rose. 5,000 National Guard from NC being deployed ... without any radios. So the Governor took state money to buy them 50 radios.
Well what happened to Woodruff also demonstrates another fact. American troops even since 2003 have been attacked 1500 to 3000 times .... per day. So the Cheney administration had this number classified as a secret. Woodruff is only typical of what comes back from Iraq every day. Mission Accomplished. We even put those soldiers in Walter Reed where patients are told where their room is and were left to find that building - then that room - on their own.
One Congressman and his wife stopped going to Walter Reed about a year ago. A soldier was found lying in his bed in his own urine. Even the Congressman was stalemated to get assistance for wounded American soldiers. But clearly Saddam was the greater threat.
BTW, deja vue Vietnam. Woodruff's and other's wounds - not the extraorindary care Woodruff got - is the real story.