Disabled vets get the shaft

Like you didn't know that.

CBS report:
"I think that the military wants to get them off their hands," says David Gorman, who lost both legs in Vietnam.

Gorman is executive director of Disabled American Veterans, a group he says normally has easy access to wounded soldiers; but not this time.

"I don't know if it's a clouded secret about who's coming back, who's there, the nature of their disabilities, the nature of their wounds or not but there is not the kind of unfettered access that we used to have at Walter Reed," says Gorman.

A spokesman for Walter Reed Army Medical Center says the restricted access is the result of post 9/11 security concerns and new federal guidelines protecting patient privacy, which by coincidence took effect just as the war in Iraq was starting.  article

Yes, every sleight and abuse these days gets blamed on 9/11 security concerns. And there's a whole lot of coincidence taking place since then, as well.

Interestingly, the army decided it didn't need those congressionally mandated baseline health reports this time before sending the troops over there either. There's a little problem with depleted uranium and medical claims from the returning soldiers of Poppy's war. If we don't have the base line medical history, then we can't say their health deteriorated as a result of exposure while in Iraq, now can we?

Support our troops.

The army cannot be expected to keep badly disabled soldiers on active duty and no one is suggesting they're deliberately being kept in the dark. But even inadvertently denying them benefits is a wound they shouldn't have to suffer.


Oh, clever CBS. Report a story, but cover your butt with a caveat.

Buck-buck-buck-budackut.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.