Wounded Troops forced to wait in squalor for medical care.

[rhino47]

This makes me so angry.I cried when I read this article.
HOW DARE THEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How can these pigs dare say they support the troops ?

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20031017-024617-1418r



Sick, wounded U.S. troops held in squalor
By Mark Benjamin
UPI Investigations Editor
Published 10/17/2003 3:36 PM


FORT STEWART, Ga., Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Hundreds of sick and wounded U.S. soldiers including many who served in the Iraq war are languishing in hot cement barracks here while they wait -- sometimes for months -- to see doctors.

The National Guard and Army Reserve soldiers' living conditions are so substandard, and the medical care so poor, that many of them believe the Army is trying push them out with reduced benefits for their ailments. One document shown to UPI states that no more doctor appointments are available from Oct. 14 through Nov. 11 -- Veterans Day.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. Suppert dem troops!

:crazy:
Remember, WE are the America-haters.

[rhino47]

3. Really how utterly remiss of me to forget what an amerika hater I am

The pink commie leftie that I am.

[babylonsister]

2. I agree. May I also say I am so overloaded

with scorn and helplessness concerning the way things are being run by the idiots in power. After tears of rage, I just had to switch from Condi's testimony because she's so sanctimonious. They're wearing me down. Everywhere I turn, I'm feeling disgust and horror because of the maniacs running this country.

[Solly Mack]

5. Because you need one and I understand how you feel

:hug:

[babylonsister]

10. Thanks, Solly. That helps, and is the

reason I'm here. I sort of feel like I'm on the Titanic, but at least we have some buddies to commiserate with.

[rhino47]

6. I agree with you babylonsister

I am so overloaded I feel like I am starting to become numb with horror.
I can not believe how it just keeps piling on.
I watched the history channel yesterday .They had the profile about hitler.It literally gave me chills.History is repeating itself.
The arrogance that I used to wonder what the german citizens were thinking.That it could never happen in america.Sadly this is a lesson I would have preferred not to learn.It indeed can happen here.

[babylonsister]

9. Rhino, read this. From a poster last night.

"I have a friend whose parents came from Germany. She told me about how hated Germans had been because people assumed they supported Hitler. Her parents did not support Hitler but they were also not part of any organized opposition so they were unable to defend themselves from such attacks.

Years from now, people will look and ask, not whether you were a Democrat, but whether you stood up and said no when Bush was sworn in. At that time you can lie and say you took action to oppose Bush or you can tell the truth and tell how your really did stand up to him on Inauguration day or you can be hated along with the others who stayed home and tacitly supported the fascist dictator.

I don't know how long it will be before there will be no more protests in America, before all dissidents will be in death camps. But I do know that it will be sooner if we do not all stand up on January 20th."

You mentioning Hitler reminded me of this post. Again, this could signal history repeating itself. :cry:

[amber dog democrat]

4. I remember a story in 1944 when HItler's train stopped next to a siding

where a hospital train carrying Wermacht (sp?) wounded back from the Eastern Front
was sitting. As Der Fuhrer became aware that soldiers in the adjacent train were excitedly looking at him through the windows of is car, he ordered the blinds drawn.

Same thing. There is so much bad faith with respect to this war mongering administration's relationship to its military files that I could not begin to catalog it.
Main thing is to avoid service for this junta of thugs - all they will do is exploit you.

Or go in the Navy or Air Force if you must

[Divernan]

7. Do note the date of this article: 10/17/ 2-0-0-3

It is horrifying, but why is it being posted now? It's a year and a half old. UPI should be doing a follow up story on this facility and the soldiers they interviewed for this original story.

Yesterday, on the front page of a nearby area weekly, was the story of a 36 year old vet who got married two months before he was deployed to Iraq and was injured in Iraq and returned paralyzed from the waist down. He is very bitter, His wife who is also depressed and angry, said "What can you do? There's no one to be angry at?" So they're still in denial that this war was bogus from the getgo and his health and their marriage was sacrificed for bush vengeance and big oil/big military industrial complex.

[rhino47]

8. It was linked to another article i was reading. eom.

[LynnTheDem]

11. This has been the case since the Iraq invasion started.

Guess what? Wounded troops are useless garbage and a drain on resources, far as bushCartel are concerned.

[Ezlivin]

12. Watch "Born on the Fourth of July"

It's amazing to see how the VA treated wounded Veterans.

I was hospitalized at Tripler Army Medical Center and when my wife saw the room they put me in she just bawled. It looked like I was in a hospital ward from the 1800s.

When you are wounded and down you are at the mercy of your caregivers. Sometimes you feel like nothing more than meat wrapped in sheets.

The psychological damage is often the hidden wound that never quite heals.