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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:47 PM
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WH read about Walter Reed issue on Sun. & had a Katrina-like
Response—they Didn’t care, were not worried. Tony S. was quizzed about only on Tuesday by The WH press core (and tony was his usual silly self----essentially saying go talk to the DOD or Army. The WH made a bad calculation----not responding with
(something like)---“-we are onto it folks, the soldiers are important”—ON Sunday when the story broke.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:50 PM
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1. Headline From The Future:
"Bush says, 'Nobody could have anticipated the outbreak of Hantavirus at Walter Reed.'"
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 10:45 PM
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5. Or maybe "Bush strategy: Out of sight, out of mind"
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:54 PM
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2. Well, it's not like anyone they know is in the military
None of their kids is serving, so why should they care if the wounded are getting crummy care? If they'd really been good soldiers, they wouldn't have gotten wounded in the first place. Stalinesque logic for a Stalinesque regime.
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Thevenin Donating Member (28 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 05:07 PM
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3. Surprise
I am surprised it didn't get dismissed as a "John Murtha-Nancy Pelosi" side issue.
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MasonJar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 05:20 PM
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4. Thevenin, welcome and good point.
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