Cafferty on Walter Reed

Crooks and Liars has the film.

Bob WoodRuff on Iraq

For anyone that missed it, I'm linking the ABC News docmentary, "To Iraq and back" done by reporter Bob Woodruff who himself was the victim of a roadside IED in Iraq while reporting 13 months ago. Bob has made a remarkable recovery and is now trying to shed light on the mis treatment and plight of injured soldiers waiting to be medically boarded and the newest veterans who are being warehoused without adequate treatment and resources. So worth it. Watch it here.

Another Horrific Consequence of Poor War Planning.

The situation a Walter Reed is personal for me. We are military and my husband works at a military hospital. As I write this he is at the Audie Murphy VA hospital here in San Antonio. He works 12- 15 hours a day, 5 days a week, with every other weekend on call. "On-call" in critical care means several calls a night and having to go into the hospital one out of five phone calls. It means going into the hospital at 7 AM Saturaday and Sunday mornings, then back on Monday with no time off. He routinely works 14 days without a day off. The doctors and medical staff at these military hospitals are overwhelmed with the number of casualties and the lack of resources and support for the job they have to do. I'm really glad congress has decided to get off their fat, lazy asses and "look into the situation at Walter Reed." HuffPo has commentary and the New York Times Story.