our wounded are piling up and smirk is closing a VA hosp. - insane

[donsu]

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/tch/opinions/story/4967990p-4896393c.html

VA's shameful duplicity at Walla Walla hospital

As the older veterans go gray after their service to their country and the young ones come home from Iraq and Afghanistan, some bloodied, some sick, the Veterans Affairs bureaucracy in Washington, D.C., pushes ahead with its mad determination to cut medical services.

The VA denies it's a cut. But while administrators promise better local services, they have no plans to actually provide them. Instead, they intend to close the Veterans Hospital at Walla Walla, among others, in defiance of protests by veterans and outraged members of Congress.

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Almost 3,500 American servicemen and women have been wounded in Iraq since the beginning of hostilities. The fatality count earlier this week stood at 686 for the same period. In just the past two weeks, 80 American service personnel were killed and 560 wounded.

Does this seem like the time to be shutting veterans' hospitals?

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The Seattle regional office, which serves 700,000 veterans, reported that demand for services is expected to increase over the next 20 years.

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Because Veterans Affairs obviously tried to muscle the closings for its own political reasons, it's only fair that members of Congress push back. U.S. Rep. George Nethercutt and Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell are leading the fight to save the Wainwright hospital.

If the Walla Walla hospital's facilities aren't up to standards, spend the money to bring them into compliance. If the older buildings need to be preserved as the historic relics they certainly are, preserve away.

But Veterans Affairs needs to stop trying to con local veterans with the notion that anything about closing this hospital is for their own good.

Nobody believes it.
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pretty soon Iraqi vets will be sitting on the curb with the Vietnam vets. they will have plenty of stories to tell each other.

[asjr]

1. But we need more money for

killing--not healing. This act alone should make people realize we do not have a president, but a dictator.

[opihimoimoi]

2. Amazing they call themselves compassionate

The Investment went to smart bombs, better warplanes, ships, missles, bullets, etc etc..

Not Healing, growing, safer, better, more, etc, we are so Lame and we don even know it.