So... were we just going to avoid this one forever?

[tw]

Previously posted and apparently ignored in Bob Woodruff's recovery images:

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.

Soldiers lying on mattresses without sheets - lying in pools of their own urine. Why no sheets? Money shortages - or what happens when pallets of $hundred bills are deliverd to Iraq and distributed without any accounting - to finance the insurgency that put that soldier into a pool of his own urine.

Even Rumsfled's wife saw what was happening and Rumsfeld did nothing.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by tw

Previously posted and apparently ignored in Bob Woodruff's recovery images: Soldiers lying on mattresses without sheets - lying in pools of their own urine. Why no sheets? Money shortages - or what happens when pallets of $hundred bills are deliverd to Iraq and distributed without any accounting - to finance the insurgency that put that soldier into a pool of his own urine.

Even Rumsfled's wife saw what was happening and Rumsfeld did nothing.

That would be the VA, not Walter Reed. I worked there for three years. The inpatient care is top knotch, same at Bethesda. The problem was with the patients in Med Hold, the transition care between discharge and civilian life after an injury. Just to keep things straight...

[tw]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

That would be the VA, not Walter Reed. I worked there for three years.

You have it completely backwards. That is Walter Reed. And when did you work there? Before Rumsfeld was 'fixing' the military? These articles are quite blunt about it. That was Walter Reed - it is that bad. VA hospitals are only now just getting scrutiny because things there are typically even worse. Remember Saddam had WMD even though facts said otherwise and reality was then perverted by anti-Americans. Anyone blowing the whistle in this George Jr era gets massacred - including the better generals who were 'ordered' to be ignored. Even Walter Reed is now that bad because 85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management. Those who tried to change things were 'transfered'.

I will be the most dispictable poster you have ever meet if it means choosing between being nice verses being honest. I have long been accurate about this administration’s contempt for the American soldier. Even Walter Reed is now that bad.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by tw

You have it completely backwards. That is Walter Reed. And when did you work there? Before Rumsfeld was 'fixing' the military? These articles are quite blunt about it. That was Walter Reed - it is that bad. VA hospitals are only now just getting scrutiny because things there are typically even worse. Remember Saddam had WMD even though facts said otherwise and reality was then perverted by anti-Americans. Anyone blowing the whistle in this George Jr era gets massacred - including the better generals who were 'ordered' to be ignored. Even Walter Reed is now that bad because 85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management. Those who tried to change things were 'transfered'.

I will be the most dispictable poster you have ever meet if it means choosing between being nice verses being honest. I have long been accurate about this administration’s contempt for the American soldier. Even Walter Reed is now that bad.

The reports that I have read in the mainstream press talk about the VA, specifically on NPR. If you have sources please site them and I will read them. I am brutally honest. The care at Walter Reed is very good. The people that were in building 18 were in a MED HOLD status. I am sure that you know what that is and what it means to be stuck there. I will not make excuses for the failures, they are across the board in many facets of the system, they have been there for years. Funny how suddenly everyone is all interested in fixing what people have said has been broken since its inception. Outpatient care has been and is deplorable. Inpatient care is very good.