Walter Reed is an older hospital that is slated for merger with Bethesda Naval Medical Center. Its physical plant needs replacement and upgrading to be a hospital. To point this out is not disparaging the troops.
The meme for supporting the troops is already changing.
Support now means bringing them home so they don't die.
These are dangerous times we live in. Up is down.
Anne Hull
Dana Priest
I don't think I could dislike people like this more than I already do. If they can't undermine the troops one way they will try to do it another. I doubt they know any real military men and women who keep their sorry butts free and safe.
I had to edit my comment about 12 times to say something this neutral.
The washington compost, anything to hurt the war effort and sap the will of Americans.
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I've read a few hit pieces in my life but this takes the cake. This sounds like it was written by Medea Benjamin and Cindy Sheehan.
I can't confirm or deny much of it but the above statement left out the fact that FReepers have been counter protesting every one of those Friday nights and outnumber the antiwar protesters many weeks.
WaPo, Dana Priest and Anne Hull are pathetic.
Dana Priest wrote the article leaking classified info from Mary McCarthy. She's tied in, professionally and maritally, with a whole cadre of folks on the left determined to destroy President Bush's Administration, and probably the whole country too. :-/
This articles reads like a new version of the movie "Born on the 4th of July"
This is the one of the stupidist things I've ever read -- a soldier who can take a bullet can't take a beer. Thank you effing MADD!
What a hatchet job. And the comments from readers are equally disrespectful. It took everything I had to read the article and the comments.
[Mr] T
That's called rehab in most hospital settings.
I hope this author never has to go to a rehab center and meet up with one of those "nasty" nurses that want them to get better.
I hope this story gets around. Every medical professional in the US will be all over these morons.
WRAMC...has been slated to be closed...it sits on a hiue campus on 16th st in DC...prime realestate developmnet property.....I wonder if this piece isn'nt just somebody's "insurance" that its closing will proceed as scheduled...
Dana Priest - treason!
These are my observations from the short time I was at WRAMC when my husband got wounded. The system is overwhelmed there. We heard from several soldiers that they had been there over a year waiting for their Med Board to take place or for the results of it. One soldier sought my husband out because he had heard he was in the 82nd. This soldier was also in the 82nd and had been there since the summer of '05 waiting for his Med Board to be completed. He ultimately sent his family back to his home state.
Hubby was there for 3 weeks and then got sent to the VA in Richmond for another 3 weeks for further rehab/treatment. They were telling us that after he left Richmond and his convalescent leave was over, he was going to have to be back at Walter Reed. We insisted that he be assigned back here to Fort Bragg because we had heard about the wait time and we didn't really want to live up there. It did take several calls and hubby's case manager was hard to locate (he got a new one in the middle of it all)...he didn't know he had a new one until he tried to call his old one! Our social worker at the VA couldn't even locate his case manager at WRAMC when he was getting discharged from the VA to get his convalescent leave squared away.
Fortunately, in the end, we were able to get what we wanted and get assigned back home, but we fought/aggressively campaigned for that. We let everyone from his doctors, to his nurses, social workers, case managers, etc know we wanted to be back at home. I do not understand why some soldiers have to wait up there for over a year. They should let them go back to their home base or home while the Medical Board process is taking place. I do understand why the Army keeps soldiers up there perhaps; it is hard to maintain control and ensure the soldiers are getting proper medical care back at home. Hubby has had to actively seek medical care here for his issues and sometimes it has been frustrating for him (especially to tell the story of what happened to him over and over), but he has been getting great care here at home. But, I realize some soldiers would get back home and not go seek out care. Maybe the Army could send them home and have the soldiers come check in at WRAMC every so often. I don't know the best answer to all of this.
All this said, my husband received excellent care on the battlefield, in the hospital in Iraq, at Landstuhl,at WRAMC and the VA. I'm convinced he would not be doing as well right now if he hadn't received the top notch care that he did.
The Post is the paper of Washington leftist snobs.
I heard the obnoxious Jane Fleming throwing around nastiness about Walter Reed last night on Hannity's America. My first thought was "where the hell did she come up that?". Now I know. THIS is a disgrace and the WaPo needs a butt-whippin'.
The Washinton Post is not the only one attacking on the Walter Reed angle. This is a Democratic talking point I have seen on various TV news shows.
I have to make a voodoo doll named Dana Priest.
This is one of the most disgusting articles I have ever read in the history of my knowledge of the Washington Post.
Oh how horrible!