Posted by
Rich from Paso on Sunday, March 11, 2007 8:12:42 PM
In the rush to politicize as early and as often as they can, the Democrats have struck again. In a selectively presented exposes, the Drive-by media has created another tempest in a teapot. The DBM chose to present as the norm the conditions of 22 rooms in a 371 room building of a 5,500 room hospital complex. You read right: 22 rooms of 5,500. But were these rooms the science projects of mold and mildew or the run down dilapidated rooms that the DBM has presented? Well, there was some peeling wallpaper in a few rooms and a little bit of mildew in others still, but only one soldier complained. The other tens of thousands that have passed through Walter Reed Medical Center and their families had nothing but glowing reviews to the care and concern shown to the wounded of the Iraq War.
A high ranking administration official that spoke on the condition of anonymity confirmed to me the number of rooms in question and told me that they had been in those rooms and did not feel that they represented a danger to the health of the soldiers that might have stayed in those rooms. Furthermore, the families of the soldiers that they spoke to at the hospital had nothing but praise for the hospital and stated that the staff and doctors of Walter Reed would be the reason why their soldier would be able to have as normal life after their injuries healed. Finally, as with most of the Democrat’s cause d’jour, no one can show any harm from the perceived neglect at the hospital.
Here’s the deal: In the few days before a man was convicted of telling the truth about a known liar but forgetting who he told the truth to, two other men were fired over 22 rooms of a 5,500 room hospital being substandard. Last week, the hospital’s commander, Major General Weightman was fired by Secretary of the Army Francis Harvey and then two days later, Secretary Harvey was fired by Defense Secretary Gates. Lost in this bloodletting and blame storming is the fact that the Army lost arguable it’s best Secretary in the last quarter century. The word from the field was that no one has been a better advocate for the soldiers than Secretary Harvey. The broader issue is that the Democrat Party and their accomplices in the drive-by media will politicize any issue and destroy anyone in their fanatical zeal to destroy President Bush, his administration. Also, the Democrats and the DBM will stop at nothing to fulfill their wish for the Iraq War to be seen as needless and unwinnable. Democrats will use wounded soldiers convalescing and recovering at Walter Reed to further their goal of America retreating in defeat from Iraq. I can only wonder if there are any issue the Democrats won’t politicize or any depths they won’t sink to demonize the Iraq War. I fear that we will see Nancy Pelosi or Jack Murtha emerge from the ground in China ready to sow more seeds of defeat for our country. These are sad times indeed.