Perhaps one of the most disturbing aspects of the entire Iraq fiasco has been the treatment of returning wounded soldiers. The lack of proper care, the horrible conditions at Walter Reed Army Hospital, and the bureaucratic hurdles thrown at the patients, become downright disgraceful when our President--the man most responsible for their wounds in the first place--repeatedly claims that he cares about the troops.
If George W. Bush really did care, he would not have allowed recuperating soldiers to stay in roach infested hospital rooms. He would not have waited until the Washington Post exposed those conditions for the entire world to see.
But the President didn't do any of that. Instead he left it to a presidential commission--set up only after the Bush Administration was embarrassed by the revelations--to come up with the necessary solutions.
That commission, headed by WWII veteran and former Senator Bob Dole, has finally issued its report. And it's only taken a little over four years into the war to take care of the problem.
If George W. Bush really did care, he would not have allowed recuperating soldiers to stay in roach infested hospital rooms. He would not have waited until the Washington Post exposed those conditions for the entire world to see.
But the President didn't do any of that. Instead he left it to a presidential commission--set up only after the Bush Administration was embarrassed by the revelations--to come up with the necessary solutions.
That commission, headed by WWII veteran and former Senator Bob Dole, has finally issued its report. And it's only taken a little over four years into the war to take care of the problem.
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