Veterans care a concealed cost of war-VA Lies about info

[Monkeyman]

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2006/10/15/a1e_moffett_1015.html

The National Security Archive is an independent,nongovernmental research research group located at G.W.U. Researchers there use the Freedom of Information Act to obtain declassified government documents and make them available to the public.

In Jan, the NSA asked the Department of Veterans Affairs for records about the number of disability claims filed by veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan wars. How the government responded to the request and what the researchers ultimately found out should make Americans worry even more about where the country is heading.

At first, the VA made the amazing pronouncement that no documents existed. The archive's researchers were asked to believe that the government had no records of claims by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.Of course, this could not be true. For the next nine months,the NSA made repeated requests and finally threatened to sue the VA if it did not turn over the records. This month, the government relented and complied. There were plenty of reports and plenty of documents.


It's one thing for the VA to tell you no records. But again we see one more cover up! Guys read the link look at the numbers. The cost of this war of lies to way to high.

[Donnachaidh]

1. Dear God.

All those kids going to protect our country getting shit on when they come home in pieces. Where's the outrage?

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. You won't find the outrage on the right, to be sure.

[genie_weenie]

6. Hey Good old David Chu claimed the Wounded Vets

were the reason for the lack of HMMWV armor and a drag on the DoD budget, of course the Ruling Regime would rather have more KIA than WIA since it strengthens their rhetoric...

[Rex]

3. VA is all I got if I get 'sick'.

I guess I will just stay home and die. Doesn't seem that VA can help all the vets in their database. I would say, this should tell Americans something about their government' but everyone here on DU already knows.

It is a disgrace how war vets get treated in this country. The military should be outraged.

[babylonsister]

4. Rec'd. From the article, thousands coming home disabled:

Thousands coming home disabled

The news definitely was bad. The records show that about one in five service members leaving the military after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan has been disabled to some degree. More than 104,000 of the 567,000 returning veterans from the two wars have been given disability compensation so far, and more are applying for it each day. At least 1.5 million U.S. troops will serve in Iraq and Afghanistan, which suggests the possibility of 400,000 disabled veterans if current proportions hold.

The potential burden to U.S. taxpayers is staggering. The Bush administration last year had to send VA Secretary Jim Nicholson to ask Congress for $2 billion more for veterans' care because of an embarrassing series of inadequate budget requests. Senate Republicans are pushing a bill that would appropriate $26 billion for veterans medical services next year - about 15 percent more than the administration proposed.

[Monkeyman]

5. Guys just the tip of the iceberg

Think about this they say we will be there until 2010! How many more broken bodies and minds on this war of lies.