Boston Herald Op/Ed: Bush AWOL On Vets; Without Quick Turnaround, Impeachment May Be In Order

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http://news.bostonherald.com/editorial/view.bg?articleid=1013794&srvc=home

White House AWOL on vets: Without a quick turnaround, impeachment may be in order
By Ann McFeatters
Saturday, July 28, 2007

WASHINGTON - Four years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration has been called on the carpet by its own presidential panel for not providing adequate care for the thousands of wounded soldiers.

But five months after The Washington Post documented chaos, confusion and incompetence in the care some badly wounded soldiers received at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the first instinct of the White House after receiving its panel’s report on veterans’ care was to do nothing.

Spokesman Tony Snow first told reporters that President Bush would not take any initial action on the bipartisan panel’s report. A few hours later, wiser heads prevailed. Two soldiers who had each lost a leg went running with Bush on the White House’s spongy jogging track, with the press permitted to record the event. Bush said he instructed Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson “to look at every one of (the panel’s) recommendations, to take them seriously and to implement them so that we can say with certainty that any soldier who has been hurt will get the best possible care and treatment that this government can offer.”

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Because of Iraq and Afghanistan, the military is in bad shape. Some think the Army, in particular, bearing the brunt of the war in Iraq, is nearly broken. But if this country can not or will not care for the men and women who are serving their country at the commander in chief’s call, we all should be ashamed.

Bush now ranks among the most unpopular U.S. presidents in history. If dramatic improvements are not made, and made quickly, in the quality of care given to U.S. soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, Bush must be held accountable. He should be brought up on impeachment charges for dereliction of duty.

[pnwmom]

1. The Boston Herald is the freeper rag. And it's calling for impeachment --

almost.

Wow. Maybe there IS hope.

[GeorgeGist]

2. Maybe in order

:wtf: ????????????????????????????????????????

[pnwmom]

8. For the very conservative Boston Herald to say that much

is MOST heartening, actually.

The tide is turning.

[lurky]

3. I'm surprised.

Herald's pretty lowbrow conservative, kind of like the NY Post.

drip. drip.

[rodeodance]

4. The WH could at least have acted like they cared about the Report!!

[chelsea0011]

5. The Herald? The Herald? That crappy rag is saying impeachment

mught be in order? Hell IS freezing over my friends.

[pnwmom]

7. I agree Feeney. Hopefully that's the canary in the mine.

And the alarms are ringing in Rethug heads everywhere.

[pnwmom]

6. K & R!