Soliders Face Neglect

After reading an article on the Washingtonpost.com I am absolutely outraged. How can soldiers, especially injured soldiers, be put in conditions and faced with such irrational and irresponsible behavior?! We are all living here in America with our heated homes and comfy beds and people that are risking their lives for us are stuck in places described as

the bathtub on the floor above through a rotted hole. The entire building, constructed between the world wars, often smells like greasy carry-out. Signs of neglect are everywhere: mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, stained carpets, cheap mattresses.

EW!

Also if the Pentagon knows of this Walter Reed Army Medical Center and plans to shut it down in 2011...one why don't they help it? and 2 What's going to happen to injured soldiers after that? Where are they going to go?

The videos added a little bit more clarity to the treatment the patients are receiving as opposed to how the out patients are being treated. I just cannot comprehend how people are being treated so poorly after coming out of such traumatizing experiences as these soldiers are.

From reading the postings after this article "The Other Walter Reed" it shows how outraged Americans are. I dont understand how the government gets away with what it does when so many people have harsh opinions of it. Perhaps it isn't the governments fault but us as Americans for letting these people run our country. Here are some of the comments I found interesting...

Do you suppose if we forced Karl Rove and Dick Cheney to move into Building 18, things might improve? How many of the 363 tons of $100 bills we shipped to Iraq would it take to improve this hell hole?

How can Bush and his allies claim to be for the troops and then propose a budget that cuts funding to the VA their health care? And this supposedly in a time of war?