Incompetent Bush Administration Facing Hell On The Hill and Everywhere Else.

WaPo

Iraqi special operation forces and British troops swept into an Iraqi intelligence ministry building Sunday morning in the southern city of Basra and found prisoners with signs of torture, British officials said.

All 30 prisoners escaped during the surprise raid, which was triggered by information gleaned from suspects arrested hours earlier in another sweep, a British military spokesman said Monday morning.

Incompetent Bush With No Backup Plan In Iraq

During a White House meeting last week, a group of governors asked President Bush and Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about their backup plan for Iraq. What would the administration do if its new strategy didn't work?

The conclusion they took away, the governors later said, was that there is no Plan B. "I'm a Marine," Pace told them, "and Marines don't talk about failure. They talk about victory."

Pace had a simple way of summarizing the administration's position, Gov. Phil Bredesen (D-Tenn.) recalled. "Plan B was to make Plan A work."

Iraq Slogger

Walter Reed Hospital -- and beyond

"It is just not Walter Reed," Ray Oliva, a veteran in Kelseyville, Calif., wrote to the Post after the recent outpatient care scandal emerged. Anne Hull and Dana Priest, who opened the Walter Reed story in their investigative series two weeks ago, describe the flood of hundreds of emails and phone calls that the Post received from veterans all around the country, in which they describe abusive or neglectful conditions in other veterans’ hospitals. While some refer to problems in the system that go back to the Vietnam era, others warn of the system’s inability to cope with the tide of returning wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan. "The hammer is just coming down, I can feel it," wrote one veteran, describing his struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder after his time in Iraq -- and the inability of the veterans’ health system to support him. Many veterans also said that they had made appeals before but felt that their concerns were neglected. "I have been trying to get someone, ANYBODY, to look into my allegations" at the Dayton VA, Darrell Hampton pleaded.

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