(Katrina on the Potomac) or Walter Reeding Iraq.

[IChing]

by Rob Kall

We are seeing, as the disaster unfolds, that the levels of leadership that failed at Walter Reed go up higher and higher

These Generals above Generals above Generals all failed to do their jobs.

This is a pattern that is not isolated to Walter Reed Hospital, not isolated to the Military hospital system, not isolated to the VA medical system, which we have been chronicling as badly broken.
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This pattern is a top down pattern, just like Abu Ghraib, just like the humvee armor, just like the absense of kevlar vests... just like the failed WMD intelligence... just like the failure to secure IRaqi weapons and ammunition depots immediately after Bush's "mission accomplished" "shock and Awe."

This is Katrina on the Potomac. What we see here is gross failure to pay attention, failure to do the job, failure to respect the soldiers, and there are more reasons to believe that these leaders, at the top of the “chain” are handling the situation in Iraq the same way they are handlling the situation at Walter Reed.


As I said, this is a top down problem. Bush, Cheney, their surrogates—they’ve done incredible damage to the contents of the leadership of the military. They have fired any leaders with the guts and integrity to speak up and disagree with the view of the world they wanted to see. That has left the US military—this huge institution in a massively disased condition, requiring major life-saving surgery. >>>>>>snip

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rob_kall_070305_walter_reeding_iraq_.htm

[Nite Owl]

1. Anyone who votes for a Republicon,

this is what they stand for, this is what we know to expect. There are no excuses anymore.

[IChing]

2. I have said since Abu Ghraib that the military needs to be purged

and got slammed here for not supporting the troops.

The purge did occur anyway but not how I would have wished
and had the opposite effect of eliminating any military leader
that disagreed with what the hell was going on.

The author of the article summed up many of those points
except the military industrial complex aspect of the problem.

[Nite Owl]

3. There seems to be no connect

with the fact that what props up the military is the industries that it supports. It isn't about the troops, our children, who for the most part go in good will to serve. Our whole society is structured around making profits for the corporations, it isn't about the people at all. I'm not against any war ever or anti capitalism but there is no balance now almost like the system has run it's course and we need to find new ways. The dems had better wake up soon, we are at a point where they could be in power for generations or lose it all. People are ready for real answers.

[unhappycamper]

4. Duty. Honor. Country.

Much of the military hierarchy has been subverted from those lofty ideals over the last ten years. (Kiley is the guy who rolled over on the Gitmo treatment of prisoners.) Here's a few more examples of the direction some have taken:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/unhappycamper/6