so this is an article about the generals responce to
other news articles speculating on what bush might do
and not on anything that he actually did. although the
news articles speculation may be based on previous
experiences or may not be based on anything but a idea
of something to write.
--- "Kendall D. Corbett" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> OK, I said I'd get you back to your previous
> discussion, and then I saw
> this....
>
>
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2007/03/general_to_bush.html
>
>
> On 3/30/07, Kendall D. Corbett
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Article on recently passed bill to improve health
> care for injured service
> > members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. I
> have no argument with
> > improving the care that returning soldiers
> receive, but I do wish there was
> > a way to ensure that all people with disabilities
> would receive the care
> > they need. We now return you to your previous
> discussion ;-{)}
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Mar 30, 2007 11:00 AM
> > Subject: FW: House Passes Bill to Improve
> Veterans' Care
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Justice For All Moderator [mailto:
> [log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 6:57 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: House Passes Bill to Improve Veterans'
> Care
> >
> > House Passes Bill to Improve Veterans' Care
> >
> > March 29, 2007
> >
> > WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) Reacting to shabby
> treatment of wounded
> > service members at Walter Reed Army Medical
> Center, the House on
> > Wednesday created a coterie of case managers,
> advocates and
> > counselors for injured troops returning from Iraq
> and Afghanistan.
> >
> > The Wounded Warrior Assistance Act, approved 426
> to 0, also
> > establishes a hot line for medical patients to
> report problems in
> > their treatment and demands an end to the red tape
> that has
> > frustrated disabled service members as they move
> from Pentagon
> > care to care by the Veterans Affairs Department.
> >
> > The bill would affect some of the more than 25,000
> American
> > service members wounded in hostile action since
> military
> > operations began in Iraq and Afghanistan.
> >
> > "We cannot allow those who have fought our foreign
> enemies in the
> > defense of freedom to come home and fight the
> federal bureaucracy
> > to get the health care they need," said
> Representative Candice S.
> > Miller, Republican of Michigan and a member of the
> Armed Services
> > Committee.
> >
> > The White House said in a statement that while
> those goals were
> > commendable, the legislation was premature and
> suggested that
> > Congress wait for a report from a presidential
> commission and a
> > task force on the war-wounded created after the
> exposure of poor
> > conditions and treatment at Walter Reed. Those
> findings are
> > expected by the end of July.
> >
> > The bill requires Senate action before it goes to
> the president.
> >
> > Representative Duncan Hunter, Republican of
> California, whose
> > support for a strong military is a cornerstone of
> his presidential
> > aspirations, said he was particularly pleased with
> a provision
> > that would improve personal care by limiting
> medical care case
> > managers to 17 cases at a time. Mr. Hunter, the
> ranking Republican
> > on the Armed Services Committee, said he also
> liked the
> > legislation's move toward more information sharing
> between the
> > Defense Department and the V.A. and steps to ease
> the transition
> > to veteran status.
> >
> > Under the bill, the defense secretary would be
> required to provide
> > disabled service members being separated or
> retired from active
> > duty with a written plan for transition to V.A.
> programs.
> >
> > Several amendments directed that more attention be
> paid to the
> > mental health of returning combatants.
> >
> > Source: New York Times
> >
>
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> >
> > Kendall
> >
> > An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
> >
> > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
> the unreasonable one
> > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> Therefore, all progress
> > depends on the unreasonable man.
> >
> > -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
> >
>
>
>
> --
>
>
> Kendall
>
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
>
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> Therefore, all progress
> depends on the unreasonable man.
>
>
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