Posted on 07/25/2008 5:50:22 AM PDT by PurpleMan
"The bad news about the Army’s treatment of wounded soldiers keeps coming. The generals keep apologizing and insisting that things are getting better, but they are not..." "Staff members of the House subcommittee who visited numerous warrior transition units June 2007 to February found a significant gap between the Army leadership’s optimistic promises and reality."
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Ooops. they’re v. their
(grammar is my friend -— sometimes)
While I applaud anybody who shines the lite on our troops being mistreated. I can’t help but see anything the NY Times writes about them with a certain amount of cynicism. If it were up to them the military would be all but disband. And what would the reportage be like if a Democrat were in the WH? Is it fair to say this wouldn’t even be on the liberal medias radar?
Save this for when somebody proposes national health care.
The NYT trots out this staple piece as a way to deflect attention from Obama’s snub of wounded soldiers in Germany. Obama snubs, the left blames the military.
Can they at least TRY to be subtle?
I would say that since:
- Lt. Gen. Robert Wilson, head of Army Installation Management Command,
- Lt. Gen. Michael D. Rochelle, dep chief of staff for G-1,
Maj. Gen. David A. Rubenstein, chief of the Medical Service Corps and the Army’s deputy surgeon general, and
- Brig. Gen. Gary H. Cheek, director of the Warrior Care and Transition Office
all testified Tuesday at the House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee outlining initiatives to increase Warrior Transition Unit support to include cadre, medical care providers and facilities for wounded warriors, an editorial on Friday is not as conspiratorial as you might think.
Maybe it’s opportune timing, but I would say that the testimony Tuesday doesn’t rate an NYT editorial Friday w/o the intervening snub by Obama. The “smoking gun” is actually the lack thereof. The msm didn’t give any play to the testimony or congressional grandstanding at the time. That would rate an editorial. Instead, on Tuesday and Wednesday it was chirping crickets.
“The “smoking gun” is actually the lack thereof.”
Negative proof fallacy. The Jesuits are cringing
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