They Don't Deserve This!

This is how we treat our returning heroes.

Shame on the Pentagon, Shame on the government, Shame on all of us. This story has been bothering me for days and I've been waiting to read more about it before I say it...shame, and all Secretary Gates can say is that it's "unacceptable?"

This is WALTER REED! This is the top of the notch place where our heroes are supposed to come home and recooperate...worse yet, these are our heroes who were injured, how lost limbs and nearly lost lives for their country, and we send them to THIS place?

Our heroes deserve better. They do not deserve second best, they do not deserve shoddy conditions or bueaucratic red tape. This happens under an administration who believes it is "supporting the troops"

Like it isn't bad enough already that we've sent them into a war for false reasons and are keeping them there "as long as it takes" to acheive some sort of "victory." It's not bad enough that we sent them there with half-assed equiptment and not well protected. Now we are sending them to a military hospital that's falling apart?

We have thousands of Vietnam Vets living on the streets, homeless. We never cared to protect them. I will NOT allow us to have thousands of Iraq vets living on the streets too. The Republicans claim they are the "party of the military" and that Democrats "hate the military," but it was under six years of total Republican rule that military veterans benefits were cut, troops were sent to a war on lies, they were sent unprepared and they were brought back to Walter Reed Building 18.

This administration won you over with their tough "Let's kick everyone's ass" attitude, but the truth is, they don't care about the safety and health of troops and veterans, they just care about showing off how "brave" and tough they can be with the world. I'm not calling for Secretary Gates' head, because he's still new on the job and should be given a chance to clean this up; the same with General Casey. The Democratic Congress should work with, and if not, force the administration to change the way Veterans are treated.

An absolute disgrace.