This deplorable situation took decades to develop, and politicizing it won’t resolve the disgrace. That being said, the current administration might not completely own this one, but they’ve certainly added momentum to the downward slide in the quality of healthcare for our soldiers.
Testimony at Walter Reed Army Medical Center yesterday by wounded soldiers who lived in moldy, cockroach- and mouse-infested rooms, shed new light on the value the Bush Administration places on American soldiers.
Even as a new wave of young Americans ships out for Iraq as part of the Administration’s “surge,” more revelations of disgusting and disgraceful conditions like those revealed by the Washington Post’s Walter Reed investigation are coming to light. The Post editorialized today about receiving “hundreds of accounts of appalling conditions and management practices at both Army outpatient facilities and Department of Veterans Affairs facilities across the country,” in the wake of its series.
