Walter Reed Chief

[Berta]

http://vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfMAR07/nf030207-1.htm

Is Bob Woodwards special on Iraq vets going to be repeated on TV again?

It was supposed to be on this AM at 6 but I missed it-

[Tbird]

berta i think you can view it here http://www.abcnews.go.com/ click on video on the menu on the left at the bottom it will open a new window and bob woodwards story should be on the right menu

[Pete53]

The VA is expert on facing the music and than dancing their two step. I can't tell you how many times I have heard. We know we have a problem, we are addressing it. We will form a committee and study it and fix it later. It never gets fixed just swept under the rug.

After all we know that the reason that they had rats and roaches in Bldg 18 was because the patients had food in their room. At least they fired some of the people who did nothing.

[john999]

How many decades has this BS been going on at the VA and in the Army? We know the VA has sytematically been underfunded for years. The politicians claim they support vets and the troops but it is just talk where the rubber meets the road. War on the cheap is what Bush and Co. wanted and a broken system for the wounded is what they got. Lots of excuses and finger pointing and how long will this attention last? My local newspaper has been writing articles for years about poor treatment at my local VAMC. They just fired the VAMC medical director, so what has changed? We still have no parking at my VAMC.

[Guest rickb54]

This will change nothing at least not in the long run. I remember years ago when I was medevac to the Landstul Hospital in Germany it too was full of roaches, falling curtains, peeling paint, holes and walls, you name it, it was bad.

Once the heat dies, things will go back to normal. Just becasue someone is fired doesn't mean anything gets fixed.

[Ricky]

Not taking up for the Army, cause I fought them dummies for over 25 years on like issues, however, what about out Sec Nic? Part of the problem was unresolved issues on disability comp. This was Army disability comp and VA comp. Why is ole Sec Nic NOT biting the bullet also? After all he is responsible for the loss of hundreds of thousands of vets personal info over and over again. Now we have these problems -------- It is so damn funny to see the media, the services, the VA etc...... jump up and and scream "holy cow" look at this stuff ---like it just happened- hell its been going on for the past 50 years!!!! I just wish the media would keep hanging on to stuff like this for about the next two years. Maybe then ole Sec Nic would bite the bullet and maybe, just maybe some positive changes would come about within the VA. I know guys, I must be dreaming----------shhhhhhhhh don't wake me cause it is such a wonderful dream. One where veterans are receiving top notch medical care within a timely manner- one in which disabled veterans claims are completed within 6 months-one where disability claim stats on the morning reports read something like: Nation wide- pending: 121,000. processed 330,00: percentage approved 96 percent: percentage denied- 4 percent: percentage appealed: 1 percent. SEE IT IS A HELL OF A DREAM.

Edited March 4, 2007 by Ricky

[Pete53]

4% rears its ugly head that is all that the VA will allow in any given year.