US Army scrambles to clean Walter Reed

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The poor conditions of the Army medical center will be the subject of hearings in Congress this week.
By Gordon Lubold | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

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WASHINGTON - The abrupt departure of the secretary of the Army, taking place as an angry Defense secretary responded to public criticism of how the Pentagon has treated its war wounded, is giving Congress fresh reasons to look more closely at war operations.

Monday, lawmakers are to begin a week of hearings that will look into the situation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington – how conditions worsened there and why it appeared, at least, that no one was paying attention. The Army's surgeon general, Army Lt. Gen. Kevin Kiley, and the commander of the hospital who was relieved of his duties, Army Maj. Gen. George Weightman, are to appear Monday on Capitol Hill. Intense questioning is expected from lawmakers on a subcommittee of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

The Army, meanwhile, is scrambling to rectify the situation: It's moving patients out of certain areas of Walter Reed in preparation for those places being refurbished, and it's creating new support initiatives to help wounded veterans of the war in Iraq.

"We've got to make sure that our VA hospitals and our military hospitals in this country are equipped to provide the services that our men and women in uniform and our veterans can be confident that they're going to get the help they need," said Sen. Trent Lott (R) of Mississippi, appearing on "This Week" on ABC.

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[Skidmore]

1. Hope the Congressional committees investigating

request those work orders.

[Divernan]

2. Right! Army brass signing those doubletime unsupervised work orders to Halliburton as we speak.

There is NO disaster which can happen in our world to which the Bush/GOP/lobbyist/corporate world's response is not something which will allow them to increase their blood soaked profits.

Conspiring to defraud the American people to pad their Cayman bank accounts is their raison d'etre.