Lies, Misdeeds and Fuck-ups by the Bush Administration
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Mindseye, thanks for remembering us... servicemembers and veterans. Just one small but significant point: Walter Reed is not a VA hospital, it's an Army hospital, part of the department of defense - the medical and support staff are mostly active duty, and it's for active duty patients. The VA hospitals are administered by the Veterans' Administration, most of the medical and support staff are civilians, and the patients are veterans. I've received care in 3 different VA hospitals, and the care and facilities were actually quite good. The conditions at Walter Reed were despicable.
Game, set, and match!
And "shock and awe campaign" was a close second, wasn't it?
Big fuck-up I'm personally quite pleased with:
Losing both the House and Senate in the 2006 mid-term election and watching the defection of one-time loyalists like Bob Barr and Matthew Dowd.
Losing both the House and Senate in the 2006 mid-term election and watching the defection of one-time loyalists like Bob Barr and Matthew Dowd.
Making Scooter Libby the fall-guy for the slash-and-burn politics of the entire administration.
Thanks for the correction.
Prior to the story breaking in the national news about Walter Reed, I had been following the story about the conditions at the VA hospital in Asheville, NC, a story which had been unfolding since 2004. When the Walter Reed story gained national prominence, I had linked the two stories in my mind -- and forgot the detail that you corrected me on. Thanks again.
I didn't see the Asheville story. I did think it was important, though that our dear readers understand the difference.
These soldiers coming back from Iraq, seriously wounded, and still on active duty (read: under the care and "protection" of the DoD) for treatment - and this is what they get. Of course, I caught the tail end of Fox 5 News while waiting for The Simpsons to come on... they were interviewing a Walter Reed patient (chosen, obviously, of course for special reasons) who said that the claims of those others were exaggerated; and besides, they're soldiers, they are used to taking care of themselves, so they should have grabbed a rag and cleaned up that mold." I was thinking "yeah, easy for you to say, asshole, you came back to take out a splinter. That guy maybe didn't still have his legs or arms or eyes." Grrrr.
OOPs! Already covered! Sorry! Please Ignore!
Nominating Harriet Miers in 2005 to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court. Bush wanted to appoint someone outside of the appelate court system, and he nominated her as a crony. Sadly, at her Senate hearing, she submitted substandard answers to the Senate's questions. They had her redo her answers.... sad, sad, sad.
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