Cheney: 'No excuses' regarding Walter Reed

and the chimp?

where have you been for the past few years? Too busy shooting air?

very clever, Dick, guess who runs it.

yes Chimp and Cheney run it!

at the hearings. It's one of their key words for the gumment being bad so they can privitize it and then make it cost more while being worse but their buddies make the money.

we'll get on that right away--by blasting the dems, the real villains in all this. They could have stopped this if they'd tried harder. But it's really the soldiers themselves who are to blame. They should have tried harder too! Now look at the mess they have made!

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they would have cleaned up the place LONG ago!

Go Cheney yourself Cheney!

"wake me up when it's all over and 2 low level slaves/officers have been sentenced to jail for the whole thing. "

for the Executive Branch's reluctance to actually do more than photo ops.
Another nail in BushCo's coffin.

They'll fire a couple flunkies and that will be the end of it.

They just don't want to pay for the troops they can't use anymore. Find a way to make the care on the soldiers' nickel and they can continue starting wars. Can't afford to pay for both, you know? Shameful.

thugs care about our military? what BS.

It was your OUTSOURCING & PRIVATIZING the federal bureaucracy to your corporate cronies that caused this problem. Cheney claims to care about the problem, and then offers his implicit solution - less government, more Halliburton!

Behind the walls of Ward 54
February 18, 2005 this treatment of sldiers has been on going and the bush administration is totally responisble!




Ward 54
They're overmedicated, forced to talk about their mothers instead of Iraq, and have to fight for disability pay. Traumatized combat vets say the Army is failing them, and after a year following more than a dozen soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital, I believe them.

By Mark Benjamin

Pages 1 2 3February 18, 2005 | Before he hanged himself with his bathrobe sash in the psychiatric ward at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Spc. Alexis Soto-Ramirez complained to friends about his medical treatment. Soto-Ramirez, 43, had been flown out of Iraq five months before then because of chronic back pain that became excruciating during the war. But doctors were really worried about his mind. They thought he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after serving with the 544th Military Police Company, a unit of the Puerto Rico National Guard, the kind of unit that saw dirty, face-to-face combat in Iraq.


But less than a month after leaving Puerto Rico, on Jan. 12, 2004, Soto-Ramirez was found dead, hanging in Ward 54. Army buddies who visited him in the days before his death said Soto-Ramirez was increasingly angry and despondent. "He was real upset with the treatment he was getting," said René Negron, a former Walter Reed psychiatric patient and a friend of Soto-Ramirez's. "He said: 'These people are giving me the runaround ... These people think I'm crazy, and I'm not crazy, Negron. I'm getting more crazy being up here.'


lots more



http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/02/18/walt...

I'm not surprised by Dr. Gates' actions entirely (down at Texas A&M he is incredibly popular even with the unabashed liberals). However, Dr. Gates would not have been appointed had it not been for the elections.

P.S. Don't misunderstand me. I know Dr. Gates was a strong supporter of the War in Iraq. I asked him personally in 2002. In his defense, however, I was also at the time along with half of the Democratic Party. However, he has more common sense than Don Rumsfeld ever did and I can only hope that he'll keep true to his word that the troops will complete the job in a few months, even if in the end such an Administration-backed pullout will benefit the Republican candidate.

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rocknation

which is say we'll fix it and then empty more of the Treasury into our cronys' pockets."

By saying "no excuses" Cheney is trying to preempt any discussion of how conditions got to be so bad. He wants to shift attention away from the deliberate negligence of the Bush administration.