Shameful. The Washington Post is running a 2 part story about the conditions at Walter Reed hospital in D.C. for returning injured soldiers. You can find part 1 here and part 2 here. This is how the stories start:
Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan's room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see the bathtub on the floor above through a rotted hole. The entire building, constructed between the world wars, often smells like greasy carry-out. Signs of neglect are everywhere: mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, stained carpets, cheap mattresses.
This is the world of Building 18, not the kind of place where Duncan expected to recover when he was evacuated to Walter Reed Army Medical Center from Iraq last February with a broken neck and a shredded left ear, nearly dead from blood loss. But the old lodge, just outside the gates of the hospital and five miles up the road from the White House, has housed hundreds of maimed soldiers recuperating from injuries suffered in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
How can it be that conventional wisdom still says that the Republican party is the party of the military? I can not believe that they are allowed to get away with this. Democrats in Congress should do something about this NOW. Reid and Pelosi should be screaming.
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