GOP knew about Walter Reed problems when they were in control

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http://public.cq.com/docs/cqt/news110-000002465100.html

See no evil, hear no evil...



Senior Republicans who knew about problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center while their party controlled Congress insist they did all they could to prod the Pentagon to fix them.

But C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., former chairman of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, said he stopped short of going public with the hospital’s problems to avoid embarrassing the Army while it was fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Young and Thomas M. Davis III, R-Va., the former chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, both acknowledged in interviews that they were aware of patient care problems at Walter Reed long before The Washington Post exposed them two weeks ago.


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“We did not go public with these concerns, because we did not want to undermine the confidence of the patients and their families and give the Army a black eye while fighting a war,” Young said.

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1. to avoid embarrassing the Army

wtf is wrong with these people!

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2. right. don't worry about the guy with half his face missing

stumbling around unassisted to get to his next appointment, living in a roach-infested dump.

We mustn't undermine troop morale, must we?

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3. Davis was sitting in front of that committee this week looking all righteous

and indignant. Someone read this article and play his questioning back at the same time. This needs to be an article on Countdown.

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4. They also knew about the Mark Foley problem when they were in charge

and all the players in the white house knew from day one that Valerie Plame was covert. And the fucking criminals wonder why they are always in trouble.

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5. this would be all over the MSM if parties were reversed

and Dems in power pooh-poohed this horror. We'd be called on "hating the troops".