OT: Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:26:38 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
<dishborealis@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Which VA Hospital have you visited?
>>
>> Scott in Florida[/color]
>
>
>I didn't write the article, or any of the others on the subject.[/color]

The question was Which VA Hospital have you visited, New Yanker...

Answer the f*ing question....

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Scott in Florida

"Scott in Florida" <askifyouwant@mindspring.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:07:07 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
> <dishborealis@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> cite the other articles, bubba.[/color]
>>
>>
>>I'm not your secretary, and the newspapers I've recycled don't have links,
>>although I could give you the address of my county's recycling center if
>>you
>>like. Get your lazy ass to the library.
>>[/color]
>
> Nailed to the wall again...
>
> Joe makes statements he can't back up............
>
> Scott in Florida[/color]


Really? The only useful information comes from the internet? Before the web,
you learned nothing, in other words. It shows.

"Scott in Florida" <askifyouwant@mindspring.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:26:38 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
> <dishborealis@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> Which VA Hospital have you visited?
>>>
>>> Scott in Florida[/color]
>>
>>
>>I didn't write the article, or any of the others on the subject.[/color]
>
> The question was Which VA Hospital have you visited, New Yanker...
>
> Answer the f*ing question....
> Scott in Florida[/color]


I visited the VA hospital lobby every day in Syracuse NY, 1971. It was a
short cut from my dormitory to one of my classes.

Now, how does that fact connect with the article you didn't read?

"sharx35" <sharx35@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "dh" <dh@stargate.com> wrote in message
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>> "badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>> DH, 2/19/2007,5:21:22 PM, wrote:
>>>> "badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>>> > DH, 2/19/2007,1:46:30 PM, wrote:
>>>> > > Yes, North Korea could hit the Aleutians with a nearly-ICBM. So
>>>> > > what? We'd never miss any of those islands
>>>> > This would be okay with you? I'm incredulous.
>>>>
>>>> Of course not. You miss - or are trying desperately to evade - the
>>>> point. The reason it's not something to worry about is that North
>>>> Korea knows those islands are not valuable targets. North Korea
>>>> can't hit anything worth hitting. Even if they could hit the
>>>> mainland US, they have, at most, a dozen or so warheads (and, given
>>>> the state of their country and technology otherwise, they'll probably
>>>> have a high misfire rate). The best they could do is piss us off and
>>>> then North Korea would be a smoking ruin. They understand this and
>>>> have no interest in shooting at us.
>>>
>>> It would not be okay with anyone if North Korea had ANY sort of device
>>> capable of delivering nuclear warheads ANYWHERE.[/color]
>>
>> That's moot. They already do. Or, maybe not.
>>[color=darkred]
>>> All it takes is one
>>> bomb delivered to South Korea[/color]
>>
>> Which a Patriot missile battery can already deal with. Or not. That's
>> our theater defense system.
>>[color=darkred]
>>> and the entire Far East would be
>>> devastated in all respects and it would ripple throughout the rest of
>>> the world.[/color]
>>
>> If the Japanese felt sufficiently threaten, they'd support us in a
>> pre-emptive strike.
>>[color=darkred]
>>> The North Korean leader doesn't care if his country gets
>>> bombed, he's already shown what he thinks of his own people and how
>>> they are subjected to abject poverty while he lives lavishly and spends
>>> the nation's wealth on developing nuclear bombs.
>>>[/color]
>> A) Kim Jong Il (I can't imagine why you don't use his name, except that
>> you probably don't kno wit) may not care about his subjects but he
>> certainly cares about his own sorry ass.
>>
>> B) He'd almost certainly have to get the cooperation of a few of his air
>> force officers and engineers to launch. They probably care about their
>> own sorry asses. The day he gives the order, they'll decide, "Hey! Good
>> time for a coup!"
>>
>> C) He can't reach us, so what do we care?
>>[/color]
> Assholes like you were the same isolationists who allowed Hitler and the
> Nazis to *almost* win WWII by delaying action.[/color]


Hey, Jeeenyuss, if I'm an "isolationist," why did I write:
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>> If the Japanese felt sufficiently threaten, they'd support us in a
>> pre-emptive strike.[/color][/color]

Well? That's not isolationism.

Also, you might consider that Germany of 1939 actually had the military
required to dominate Europe. North Korea has pretty much diddly-squat.
Lots of people, maybe, but badly equipped and probably very badly trained.
With no way to get off their peninsula. They aren't going to invade Japan
with reed canoes.

I know, I know... considerations of history and logistics are beyond you;
you
are far more comfortable in knee-jerk uber-Patriot mode, regurgitating the
soundbites of the Limpballs of this world because it's easier than studying
and thinking.
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>>>> Consequently, the money spent on the ABM program is WASTED. And it's
>>>> money that could have been spent to SAVE LIVES TODAY.
>>>>
>>>> Get it?[/color][/color][/color]

Do ya? Do ya get it, yet?
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>> A) The ABM system serves no purpose. It's a waste of money that could
>> have been spent better on force protection.
>>
>> B) The President stood idly by as we cut taxes and went heavily into debt
>> for things like The Bridge to Nowhere. Money that could have been better
>> spent on force protection. He did not exert the leadership necessary to
>> avoid ridiculous waste in favor of discipline spending on the very things
>> he deemed important. He stood idly by while the pigs of his own party
>> rollicked in the public trough.
>>
>> C) And, as such, charges from the Administration that others are not
>> "supporting the troops" are the basest hypocrisy.
>> --
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Which drops posts and is otherwise unreliable, in case anyone is interested.
And it's not free, they charge for it. And all questions about the server
are
answered with, "Why don't you upgrade?"



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"JoeSpareBedroom" <dishborealis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> <annecoultersadamsapple@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> And W just slashed funding to the VA. Wake up! The current
>> administration is not republican. Talk about not supporting the
>> troops.
>>
>> Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility
>>
>> By Dana Priest and Anne Hull
>> Washington Post Staff Writers
>> Sunday, February 18, 2007; A01[/color][/color]

On the Diane Rehm show this morning.
[url]http://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/[/url]

Cathy


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>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Complete article here:
>> [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/17/AR2007021701172_pf.html[/url]
>>[/color]
>
>
> This is strange. Tony Snow just said this:
>
> ""The war is tough, but the solution is not to get out. It is to provide
> the kinds of resources and reinforcements our forces need to get the job
> done, and at the same time say to the Iraqis `You guys got to step up,"'
> Snow responded."
>
> I guess for him, the word "support" only means guns & ammo. Once the
> soldiers are home, never mind.
>[/color]

"Cathy F." <clfr@adelphiadot.net> wrote in message
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> "JoeSpareBedroom" <dishborealis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> <annecoultersadamsapple@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>> And W just slashed funding to the VA. Wake up! The current
>>> administration is not republican. Talk about not supporting the
>>> troops.
>>>
>>> Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility
>>>
>>> By Dana Priest and Anne Hull
>>> Washington Post Staff Writers
>>> Sunday, February 18, 2007; A01[/color][/color]
>
> On the Diane Rehm show this morning.
> [url]http://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/[/url]
>
> Cathy[/color]


Thanks!

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> "JoeSpareBedroom" <dishborealis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> "Cathy F." <clfr@adelphiadot.net> wrote in message
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>>> "JoeSpareBedroom" <dishborealis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>>> <annecoultersadamsapple@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:1171899730.808143.131420@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>>>>> And W just slashed funding to the VA. Wake up! The current
>>>>> administration is not republican. Talk about not supporting the
>>>>> troops.
>>>>>
>>>>> Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility
>>>>>
>>>>> By Dana Priest and Anne Hull
>>>>> Washington Post Staff Writers
>>>>> Sunday, February 18, 2007; A01
>>>
>>> On the Diane Rehm show this morning.
>>> [url]http://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/[/url]
>>>
>>> Cathy[/color]
>>
>>
>> Thanks![/color]
>
> You're welcome.
>
> Cathy[/color]


Of course, now dbu will ask (ad nauseum) "Have you ever visited a VA
hospital?" :-)