Bush Orders Review Into Treatment Of Wounded Troops

   It is a shame that it took a newspaper report to get the government and our military to do anything to help our wounded troops who have been in Walter Reed living in such a miserable environment.

   If this had been a civilian hospital it would have been closed down!

   Finally, we hear this from Bushco.

 

 

 

By Matt Spetalnick Tue Feb 20,2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration ordered a review on Tuesday of the care of wounded U.S. troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan after reports that many face neglect in the Army's medical system.

  Democrats controlling Congress demanded a thorough investigation and promised legislation after a Washington Post series exposed deteriorating conditions for hundreds of outpatients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, the premier U.S. military hospital.

The controversy poses a public relations problem for President George W. Bush, who has spoken often of America's debt to military personnel wounded in the wars, visited the hospital's wards and honored military amputees at White House functions.

The White House expressed concern at conditions for veterans after reports that many suffering physical and psychological problems lived in shoddy housing on or near the sprawling complex and faced long battles with Army bureaucracy.

 

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