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February 28, 2007
Despicable
Walter Reed patients told to keep quiet
By Kelly Kennedy - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Feb 28, 2007 10:42:37 EST
Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready for inspection at 7 a.m., and that they must not speak to the media.
“Some soldiers believe this is a form of punishment for the trouble soldiers caused by talking to the media,” one Medical Hold Unit soldier said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
-The Army Times
Hat tip to Talking Points Memo.
Comments
[February 28, 2007 1:14 PM]
Bruce HarperSee http://captjason.blogspot.com/ for a lengthy blog written about Jason Scott and his trials with recovery after being wounded in Iraq. Jason grew up in Blacksburg and his father was a professor at Virginia Tech (a request to provide some coverage when Jason was wounded was ignored by the Roanoke Times). Katy Scott wrote many of the entries and expressed much frustration at the red tape, duplicate processes and procedures, and lack of response to getting problems fixed while Jason was at Walter Reed. He survived the ordeal, but the blog is a sad commentary of the treatment given to wounded soldiers.
[March 1, 2007 7:13 AM]
JoshArmy Times -- liberal nut blog
Talkingpointsmemo --liberal nut blog
These people have an agenda.
That's all we need to say.
[March 1, 2007 8:53 AM]
Dan RadmacherDefinition of "liberal nut blog": Any publication, however well respected, that presents information that Josh disagrees with.
[March 1, 2007 12:23 PM]
JoshTalkingpointsmemo is 'well respected?' LMAO. Josh Marshall is partisan. Now he is a laughingstock, too.
He relentlessly pushed the exposed lie that the Bush administration released Valerie Plame's information as retribution against her husband. Marshall and his two-bit blog were completely discredited.
Ooops.
[March 1, 2007 12:41 PM]
Dan RadmacherJosh,
Talking Points Memo is very well respected - and the Libby trial pretty much confirmed everything Marshall had written about the Plame case.
Marshall is liberal, but he's not partisan. He goes after corruption in either party with equal vigor.
Unlike most blogs, Marshall actually employs talented reporters to dig up stories.
[March 1, 2007 2:17 PM]
JoshYou are joking, aren't you, Dan?
Marshall consistently pushed the idea of a Bush cover up. It turns out, Bush didn't even know Armitage was the source.
[March 1, 2007 9:39 PM]
Bruce HarperAnd this wrong turn by Josh has what to do with deplorable conditions at Walter Reed? Or does Josh think it is OK to screw over soldiers wounded in the line of duty? There have been other reports about the bad conditions at Walter Reed, not just from "people [who] have an agenda." (and what might that agenda be, Josh?)
[March 1, 2007 10:10 PM]
JoshThe agenda on this, Bruce, is for leftwingers to make it appear they give a damn about the soldiers. See, Americans aren't buying the Democrats' claim that they support the soldiers while they do their best to undermine those brave men and women, so they have to try something.
[March 2, 2007 2:11 AM]
Dan RadmacherDefinition of "support the soldiers": Make sure they remain mired in a hundreds-year-old religious conflict between two bitterly divided Muslim sects, then raise no complaints when wounded veterans are forced to recuperate amidst out-of-control mold and rat droppings.
[March 2, 2007 8:16 AM]
JoshDan,
What did you think of John Murtha's plan to starve out and bleed the soldiers? You know, deny them of the supplies they need so they couldn't do the job? But I know, I know. Democrats care about those guys.
[March 2, 2007 8:20 AM]
Dan RadmacherActually, Josh, that's the conservative caricature of Murtha's plan. In reality, the plan was simple: Congress would insist that the president send only fully trained, fully equipped troops to Iraq.
Since most of those now being sent over are neither, then Bush's hands would be tied, unless he came to Congress and admitted that he was sending in unprepared troops and asked for a waiver.
Don't you believe those troops you support should be fully trained and equipped before we send them to battle, Josh?
[March 2, 2007 4:48 PM]
BruceAnd this "leftwingers [trying] to make it appear they give a damn about the soldiers" is bad how? These "liberal nut blogs" pointed out the horrible conditions being offered to wounded soldiers at Walter Reed -- mice and mold, bad food, marginal care, lots of red tape. This isn't something new, read Jason's blog that covers these problems from over a year ago. About the only good thing there are (most of) the staff people who try to make the best of a bad situation for folks who are already pretty bad off.
Rather than spin off into yet another tangent that you control, how about discussing the issue at hand -- the conditions at Walter Reed. Explain why the rightwingers (whom we assume wholeheartedly support the war and the soldiers) have not felt compelled to act to improve conditions for the wounded soldiers and their families. Where are all the "compassionate conservatives"?
Bruce, the radical moderate
[March 13, 2007 1:34 PM]
Mark WilsonI fail to see how this is a democrat or republican issue. That being said, I am not surprised in the least that the left, who care NOTHING about our troops, have attempted to make this a partisan issue. Shame on the liberals.
One last thought...THIS is what we all will face if the libs get their way with health care. If this doesn't enlighten the "socialistic healthcare crowd, nothing will.