Lawmakers Promise Quick Response On Walter Reed Situation

  The lawmakers here in the good old USA are now seeking their own independent commission to look into the Walter Reed mess on top of the group that Bush is having look into the fiasco.

    Defense Secretary Robert Gates created a panel last week to look at the conditions in another hospital in addition to Walter Reed, this one being the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md.   Source

"I'm worried about if it's this bad at the outpatient facilities at Walter Reed, how is it in the rest of the country? Because Walter Reed is our crown jewel," said Sen. Charles Schumer ( voting record), D-N.Y.

"To think that men and women are serving their country in the most honorable and courageous way possible and all we give them is a dilapidated, rat-infested, run-down building to recover is a disgrace," Schumer wrote. "My fear is that Walter Reed is just the tip of the iceberg, and merely highlights the pervasive and systemic mistreatment of our service members."    Yahoo News

      The next thing that should happen is the termination of Lt. Gen. Kevin Kiley since his sorry ass was once the commander of Walter Reed. It has been said that Kiley knew of these lousy conditions for at least the past three years.

   The military's claim of being under staffed and over burdened with patients is no excuse for this crap to have taken place. With all of the funding that has been given to the military since the Bush war club has been in office, no body thought about maybe training more professionals and then maybe up-grading the facilities? This is the equivalent of trying to say that no body thought there would be many casualties in this war so we never thought of it.

 

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John Edwards and Wife Speak Out On Coulter's Comments

   In the New York Times is a piece on the continuing Ann Coulter slur towards John Edwards at the CPAC get together.

   It is noted that  John McCain , Rudolph W. Giuliani , and Mitt Romney have denounced the comments by the " Vixen of Venom " but that was only after the Democrats, gay rights groups and many blogger's raised hell about the comments.

Ms. Coulter, asked for a reaction to the Republican criticism, said in an e-mail message: “C’mon, it was a joke. I would never insult gays by suggesting that they are like John Edwards. That would be mean.”      NYT

3/03/2007

John Edwards released the following statement today:

Ann Coulter's use of an anti-gay slur yesterday was un-American and indefensible. In America, we strive for equality and embrace diversity. The kind of hateful language she used has no place in political debate or our society at large.

I believe it is our moral responsibility to speak out against that kind of bigotry and prejudice every time we encounter it.         Source

 

Elizabeth Edwards   Source
3/03/2007

When Miss Coulter spoke about John at the conservative convention in Washington yesterday, she used a word that she intended as a nasty and derogatory suggestion. John and I have long ago shrugged off the vile words of this person. When she made a joke about the exact moment of death of Charlie Dean (Howard's brother and a schoolmate of mine), and when she attacked the courageous 9-11 widows, she told you all you need to know about what she is made of: her compassion -- or lack thereof.  Now we need to find out about you.  

Although her words did not hurt us, they may have hurt some in the gay community. We are all sick and tired of anyone supporting or applauding or introducing hate words into the national dialogue, tired of people thinking that words that cause others pain are fair game. And we are sick and tired of people like Miss Coulter thinking that her use of loaded words about the homosexual community in this country is remotely humorous or appropriate.     The Article

 

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