Walter Reed

The horrific conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center are unimaginable. Everyday I read a new story about neglect, unlivable conditions, and privatization in this medical center.

This is the main medical center for our troops who were badly injured defending our freedoms. They should all be given castles with people to wait on their every need, without these people you and I would be fighting off terrorists with broom sticks. Not only are these wounded soldiers scarred (and maimed) for life, their own government is giving them horrific conditions to heal in.

There is simply no excuse for anything that is happening there.

Today President Bush ordered a bipartisan committee to analyze the conditions at Walter Reed. (How come when a group of politicians need to be trusted they make sure it is a bipartisan committee? (Because a group of partisan politicians can't be trust, even though in every election we elect our representatives through partisan politics, it doesn't make sense, but thats a whole different post all together)).

Not only should these wounded soldiers be treated like gold, they should all be given a million dollars. I hate that everything you read these days is bashing President Bush, but on this issue I must jump in the fray. President Bush needs to not only get a bipartisan commission looking into this, the problems need to be fixed, and people need to be fired.

It is obvious that the president and his close circle are the few who believe in sending out our brave men and women into a shower of bullets. But when they come back home for treatment they get treated like this, it is ridiculous.

I would say write your congressman (or woman), but that won't do anything. Pressure from media exposure will, and these problems will be fixed very soon (with the help of bipartisanship).