DISQUS

stewart · 2 years ago

Need Help? Call the National Veterans Fondation: 888 777 4443 The National Veterans Foundation In Los Angeles has trained staff standing by to take your call for any issue you may have as a veteran, a family member, or friend of a veteran.

They can also be reached at WWW.NVF.org

Dennis · 2 years ago

Wounded soldiers deserve proper treatment Deny it all they want to, but no one who has watched the Bush administration and the Pentagon at work is surprised at the poor treatment of wounded American soldiers.

After all, they need to save the tax money that needs to be spent on their care so that the already rich and corporations can have their unnecessary, unneeded tax breaks.

And even if the military aren't wounded, their health care for their famlies is about as poor as it gets.

You don't have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

Wendy Norris · 2 years ago

thank you for sharing this resource The situation faced by Sgt. Mischke, his family and thousands of other veterans is a national tragedy.

Truthteller · 2 years ago

Hmmmm. Let's see. Which governmental entity is it that passes the budget (if they ever get to it on time) and allocates and appropriates money for treating ill veterans?  Gee, that would be Nancy Pelosi's democrat party-controlled do-nothing Congress. 

Oh, wait, I forgot, in the twisted world-view of democrat party hacks, nothing is ever the responsibility of the democrats...it's always those horrible demons on the other side of the aisle.

Get real.

Wendy Norris · 2 years ago

perhaps you missed this part of the story

The senator did his part by helping to shepherd $900,000 into the proposed current federal budget. The money would keep model programs for TBI treatment going at 14 hospitals across the country.

The Bush Administration tried to freeze funding in a way that would have forced two of those programs to close, said Craig Hospital's Cindy Felix, the director of Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems of Care.

But even after Salazar succeeded in getting the extra 900 grand for brain trauma treatment into the Labor-Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, President Bush vetoed the bill.

There's plenty of blame to go around but your partisan bashing is tiresome. The Administration's politicking of the war wounded and the abysmal job of the Army in attempting to unfairly discharge Sgt. Mischke and hundreds more like him to save a few bucks for TriCare lie squarely on the shoulders of the executive branch.

Truthteller · 2 years ago

Wow He bashes Bush to no end, and you have the audacity to complain about MY partisan bashing?  Better check that log in your eye before you look at the mote in mine......

Truthteller · 2 years ago

Oh, and I think you overlooked this "The president wasn't aiming at TBI programs so much as overall spending."

So spare me the faux pretend-to-be-nonpartisan-out-for-the-vet outrage.

Wendy Norris · 2 years ago

Mom, he started it That's the best you've got, Truthy. Man, you're slipping.

So, tell me, what's your assessment of Sgt. Mischke's situation without the partisan schmear.

pakaal · 2 years ago

Truthspeaker Propaganda Considering the incompetence shown at Walter Reed and other vet hospitals - incompetence the Bush Administration has been a part of from day one - it's kind of surprising you Neocons even TRY to assign blame to the Democrat congress. Hmm, let's see, who was it who left 9 of the 11 budget bills for the Dems at the end of the 109th Congress in 2006 (who I have to point out come in at the Number 1 spot for least days worked in congress EVER)? The Republicans.

All the sour grapes for your congressional loss aside, your comment about overall spending hits the mark. While asking for more and more cash to fuel his unending war in Iraq, Bush seems to have little care for the injuries his war creates - even AFTER his Walter Reed scandal. That's how Bush's budgeting priorities work. More for war, less for everything else, including our warriors. Judging by how badly Iraq has turned out, it's no wonder the GOP's chances in 2008 look so dismal.

rocco7 · 2 years ago

stop the hackspeak Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, lots of tough guy words for the Democrats, but the veto's ok. Did I get that right, "truthteller"? Just guessing, but I'm gonna say "truthteller" never served. Young College Republican? '60's "deferred"? Wait, I got it, couldn't quit deisel/automotive college to enlist? Cyst on the old behind? Had too many kids at the age of 19 to go? Law School? In prison? Anybody, and I mean anybody that uses a story about this wounded hero to spout this partisan crap doesn't have any connection to our United States Military personnel, their families, or our proud traditions. This is a scandal. EVERYBODY needs to get behind this thing and get our kids taken care of. Maybe, just maybe, "truthteller", if you had put your rump on the line in the service of your country, you would have a clue as to how stupid you came across. Enlist, then run your mouth. 

ahigherway · 2 years ago

American vets deserve the best America has to give There is no excuse for the sacrifice of the well being of American vets a second time by ignoring their health care needs.  There is no justification for allowing misdiagnosis in order to avoid responsibility. We all need to get behind the vets.  It is not about labels of affiliation, but a veto speaks for itself when political connections reign and documented graft and greed from Halliburton has wasted millions to increase profits using Blackwater private soldiers who are compensated many times over on the cost-plus formula allowed by the Halliburton (no bid) federal contract.If you haven't seen the documentary "Iraq for Sale" yet, it illustrates failures that endanger our vets...for example..Halliburton did not ensure that our vets drank and washed in clean, uncontaminated water...as they were paid to do, and now our vets genuine needs, and well deserved support is not just minimized but vetoed by the man and the administration who sent them into a dangerous world. Patrols in Iraq send our vets into areas where there is a known history of ambushes....makes it look like they don't matter there, and now they don't matter here either.  There is no excuse.