Obama’s Wars, Obama’s Casualties, Obama’s Responsibilities

[robdogbucky]

Last week, Veterans for Common Sense publicly demanded that the Administration implement a casualty plan. After all, these are now Obama’s wars, these are Obama’s casualties, and they are Obama’s full personal responsibility. There is still no casualty plan, a serious problem first raised by VCS on CNN in October 2006, months before the Walter Reed scandal was widely exposed.

While there continues to be outstanding emergency medical services on the front lines saving many lives every day, let us be very clear: our Nation shall not repeat the mistakes after the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and the first eight years of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, where the long-term medical needs of our service members and veterans were neglected.

Based on lessons learned, VCS describes the current challenges for our service members and veterans, and then we list policy objectives that can be easily implemented by Obama, the military, and VA...

...All of America is waiting for President Obama to fulfill his obligation by implementing a plan and making certain that no service member or veteran ever waits for medical care or benefits."


http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/index.php/veterans-category-articles/1519-vcs


This release also cites that there are now 480,000 new Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran patients at VA - and the number is rising sharply at an average rate of 300 new veteran patients every day. I did not know that and it leaves me very very depressed at the results of our folly.


Just my dos centavos

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