For Lawmakers, Visiting Wounded Brings Iraq War Close to Home

For Lawmakers, Visiting Wounded Brings Iraq War Close to Home
By Darlene Superville Associated Press Writer
Published: Nov 18, 2003




WASHINGTON (AP) - When the House voted to stop charging wounded soldiers for their hospital food, it had a lot to do with what the wife of Rep. Bill Young, R-Fla., heard during a bedside visit with the troops.

And after talking with a Marine blinded in one eye, Rep. John Murtha, a hawkish Pennsylvania Democrat who had supported President Bush on Iraq, urged Bush to fire advisers who helped set U.S. policy there.

Hospital visits have become a wartime rite of passage for many in government, a way for lawmakers to put a face on the issues they vote on and for other officials to see the effects of their policies. (snip)

(snip) After Murtha tried to cheer up the partially blind Marine, who also was in danger of losing a foot, the lawmaker told reporters that "somebody has to go" at the Pentagon.

"We can't allow the bureaucrats to get off," Murtha said, "while these young people are paying such a heavy, heavy price." (snip/...)

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KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL.

See the results of war by visiting a mangled human and all of a sudden its: "Who did this? Huh. I want heads to roll." Look in the mirror you sick bitch . YOU voted for it.

I suppose that would be the CIA, which warned ShrubCo repeatedly of the danger of quagmire. :eyes:

to DO anything. SHAME