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...the riot continues among the deranged, insane, psychotic members over part 2 of the Washington Post's series on the neglect of wounded service members at Walter Reed. These sick people need help before they do something dangerous to themselves. We should take away their large bore handguns and other weapons until they calm down. The full bedlam is here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787162/posts
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The Hotel Aftermath (WaPo Jihad on Walter Reed; Monday's Target: Mologne House)
The Washington Post ^ | Monday, February 19, 2007 | Anne Hull and Dana Priest
Posted on 02/18/2007 8:15:31 PM PST by kristinn
The guests of Mologne House have been blown up, shot, crushed and shaken, and now their convalescence takes place among the chandeliers and wingback chairs of the 200-room hotel on the grounds of Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Oil paintings hang in the lobby of this strange outpost in the war on terrorism, where combat's urgency has been replaced by a trickling fountain in the garden courtyard. The maimed and the newly legless sit in wheelchairs next to a pond, watching goldfish turn lazily through the water.
But the wounded of Mologne House are still soldiers -- Hooah! -- so their lives are ruled by platoon sergeants. Each morning they must rise at dawn for formation, though many are half-snowed on pain meds and sleeping pills.
SNIP
Mostly what the soldiers do together is wait: for appointments, evaluations, signatures and lost paperwork to be found. It's like another wife told Annette McLeod: "If Iraq don't kill you, Walter Reed will."
SNIP
Two Washington Post reporters spent hundreds of hours in Mologne House documenting the intimate struggles of the wounded who live there. The reporting was done without the knowledge or permission of Walter Reed officials, but all those directly quoted in this article agreed to be interviewed.
SNIP
After a while, the bizarre becomes routine. On Friday nights, antiwar protesters stand outside the gates of Walter Reed holding signs that say "Love Troops, Hate War, Bring them Home Now." Inside the gates, doctors in white coats wait at the hospital entrance for the incoming bus full of newly wounded soldiers who've just landed at Andrews Air Force Base.
And set back from the gate, up on a hill, Mologne House, with a bowl of red apples on the front desk.
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1 posted on 02/18/2007 8:15:34 PM PST by kristinn
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Walter Reed is an older hospital that is slated for merger with Bethesda Naval Medical Center. Its physical plant needs replacement and upgrading to be a hospital. To point this out is not disparaging the troops.
2 posted on 02/18/2007 8:17:22 PM PST by GAB-1955 (being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
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To: kristinn
The meme for supporting the troops is already changing.
Support now means bringing them home so they don't die.
These are dangerous times we live in. Up is down.
3 posted on 02/18/2007 8:19:58 PM PST by Carling (It's Danny, Sir)
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To: GAB-1955
Sorry, this series is about The Washington Post making Walter Reed out to be the American Abu Ghraib.
4 posted on 02/18/2007 8:20:18 PM PST by kristinn
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To: Just A Nobody
Ping.
5 posted on 02/18/2007 8:23:08 PM PST by kristinn
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To: kristinn
Only needed to see the name Dana Priest.
6 posted on 02/18/2007 8:28:52 PM PST by digger48
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To: kristinn
Anne Hull
Dana Priest
I don't think I could dislike people like this more than I already do. If they can't undermine the troops one way they will try to do it another. I doubt they know any real military men and women who keep their sorry butts free and safe.
7 posted on 02/18/2007 8:36:06 PM PST by kcvl
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Anne Hull and Dana Priest are disgusting whores.
I had to edit my comment about 12 times to say something this neutral.
8 posted on 02/18/2007 8:38:13 PM PST by tgslTakoma
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The washington compost, anything to hurt the war effort and sap the will of Americans.
9 posted on 02/18/2007 8:40:12 PM PST by Eagles6 (Dig deeper, more ammo.)
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This article is vile and detestable. The two women who wrote it should bear the shame and stain of their action forever.
10 posted on 02/18/2007 8:45:39 PM PST by smoothsailing
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Bump
11 posted on 02/18/2007 8:46:26 PM PST by Enterprise (Drop pork bombs on the Islamofascist wankers. Praise the Lord and pass the hammunition.)
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To: kristinn
On Friday nights, antiwar protesters stand outside the gates of Walter Reed holding signs that say "Love Troops, Hate War, Bring them Home Now."
I've read a few hit pieces in my life but this takes the cake. This sounds like it was written by Medea Benjamin and Cindy Sheehan.
I can't confirm or deny much of it but the above statement left out the fact that FReepers have been counter protesting every one of those Friday nights and outnumber the antiwar protesters many weeks.
WaPo, Dana Priest and Anne Hull are pathetic.
12 posted on 02/18/2007 8:54:12 PM PST by jazusamo (http://warchronicle.com/TheyAreNotKillers/DefendOurMarines.htm)
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I've read a few hit pieces in my life but this takes the cake. This sounds like it was written by Medea Benjamin and Cindy Sheehan.
Maybe Anne Hull and Dana Priest are on the board of Code Pink?
Nah, they're probably vying for Gael Murphy's amor.
13 posted on 02/18/2007 9:06:49 PM PST by tgslTakoma
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To: kristinn; Enchante; Sam Hill; freema
Dana Priest wrote the article leaking classified info from Mary McCarthy. She's tied in, professionally and maritally, with a whole cadre of folks on the left determined to destroy President Bush's Administration, and probably the whole country too. :-/
14 posted on 02/18/2007 9:10:58 PM PST by pinz-n-needlez (Jack Bauer wears Tony Snow pajamas)
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To: jazusamo; tgslTakoma; smoothsailing
Jaz, thank you for giving me the opening I needed to comment. Like Takoma, I have been trying to find something to say that would not get me banned.
I've read a few hit pieces in my life but this takes the cake. This sounds like it was written by Medea Benjamin and Cindy Sheehan.
This is a perfect statement!
I can't confirm or deny much of it...
I can! Actually, I personally know a number of those featured in this BS propaganda hit piece. One says "our troops volunteered and those that criticize should get out and do their part."
I will be sending this disgusting piece of trash to a few of them!!! They need to take the lead from others who tell the media scumbag whores to "F-Off" and "H-No" I won't talk to you!
Oh, and BTW...Dell McLeod showed no signs of being "frightened by crowds" the night he attended a Gala in Richmond with 100s of people over a year ago. He seemed perfectly fine as he met and spoke with Zell Miller and Luke Strickland! He left Mologne House a few months ago.
I need to stop before my post is longer than this piece of garbage. I am beyond LOATHING these vile creatures sucking up valuable air...I HATE them!
15 posted on 02/18/2007 9:26:54 PM PST by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: kristinn
antiwar protesters stand outside the gates of Walter Reed
Yeah, waaaaaaay outside the gates. Waaaaaaay down the block, as a matter of fact. Where they have been for over a year.
Why was this piece held back for so long?
Timed release to smear everything and everyone military?
Set to coordinate with the pigs in CONgre$$?
Funny...that Compost photographer stood out there with us for hours 10 days ago and never mentioned we were there.
I hate these scum sucking AHs.
16 posted on 02/18/2007 9:34:29 PM PST by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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I can! Actually, I personally know a number of those featured in this BS propaganda hit piece.
Thank you, Justa. Had I not noticed you had already been pinged I would have pinged you. I knew you would have something to say about this.
Thank you again for confirming exactly what I suspected. To these two swine the glass is completely empty, life just isn't like that in the military or anywhere else, they're both despicable.
17 posted on 02/18/2007 9:40:26 PM PST by jazusamo (http://warchronicle.com/TheyAreNotKillers/DefendOurMarines.htm)
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And I don't blame you one bit ... I revile these pieces of dirt! Dana Priest has a long rapsheet with us .. she's SO despicable. They were able to spend hundreds of hours there? There's no control over visitors?
God bless our troops ~~ and keep them from vermin like this!
18 posted on 02/18/2007 9:44:25 PM PST by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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19 posted on 02/18/2007 10:01:13 PM PST by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: Just A Nobody; BIGLOOK
Anne Hull and Dana Priest
Well that about covers it...
and second, " I have been trying to find something to say that would not get me banned..."
21 posted on 02/18/2007 10:11:38 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Rome2000
Dana Priest's Husband Gets Joe Wilson Media Gigs
Sweetness & Light ^ | April 22, 2006 | N/A
Posted on 04/22/2006 3:22:34 PM PDT by Sam Hill
Pulitzer Prize winning Dana Priest is married to William Goodfellow. William Goodfellow is the Executive Director of the the Center for International Policy (CIP).
http://tinyurl.com/2yyevn
23 posted on 02/18/2007 10:29:03 PM PST by kcvl
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So Dana Priest reports on the CIA through leaks by the Democratic donor Mary O. McCarthy, while her husband heads a left-wing organization that wants to "reform the CIA"... Sweet!
While Dana Priest was writing about clandestine "rendition" operations that actually started under Bill Clinton, her husband's group, The Center for International Policy, was/is actively promoting an anti-Bush, anti-American foreign policy message:
Before 9/11, The Center for International Policy, CIP, a Fenton Communications client, mainly acted as Fidel Castro's greatest "think tank" ally. Much of its million-dollar budget was spent lobbying to end economic sanctions and travel restrictions against Cuba.
Now, it has another mission. Fenton has established a "war room" with CIP called The Iraq Policy Information Program (IPIP). Its main job is getting the anti-Bush foreign policy message out to the media and providing guests for talk shows. A featured speaker of the IPIP is former ambassador Joe Wilson, one of the Bush administration’s most vocal enemies. Like Moveon.org and Win Without War, the contact for the Iraq Policy Information Program is Fenton Communications. Win Without War also collects tax-deductible donations through CIP.
http://tinyurl.com/yqsczj
24 posted on 02/18/2007 10:31:59 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kristinn
This articles reads like a new version of the movie "Born on the 4th of July"
25 posted on 02/18/2007 11:01:46 PM PST by Mo1 ( http://www.gohunter08.com)
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I knew you would have something to say about this.
;*)
they're both despicable.
Amen!!!
26 posted on 02/18/2007 11:33:24 PM PST by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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There's no control over visitors?
Yes, there is. What I don't get is how they were not known by WR personnel especially if they used their press passes to gain access.
27 posted on 02/18/2007 11:37:09 PM PST by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: STARWISE
Nice graphic. Fair warning...I will be steal borrowing it.
28 posted on 02/18/2007 11:38:27 PM PST by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: george76
;*) We have a consensus!!!
29 posted on 02/18/2007 11:40:16 PM PST by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: Rome2000
The WP is the enemy
Enemy + media = ENEMEDIA
30 posted on 02/18/2007 11:41:31 PM PST by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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Fenton Communications
Aren't they the ones that created the ditch witch, Sheehag?
31 posted on 02/18/2007 11:43:54 PM PST by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: pinz-n-needlez; 1stbn27; 2111USMC; 2nd Bn, 11th Mar; 68 grunt; A.A. Cunningham; ASOC; ...
Well. Her care and concern is so obvious.
32 posted on 02/19/2007 2:03:37 AM PST by freema (Marine FRiend, 1stCuz2xRemoved, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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I had to edit my comment about 12 times to say something this neutral.
You shouldn't talk about whores like that. Whores are just tying to make a living............
33 posted on 02/19/2007 2:29:30 AM PST by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty: The Pendleton 8...down to 3..GWB, we hardly knew ye...)
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Those who aren't old enough to buy a drink at the bar huddle outside near a magnolia tree ...
This is the one of the stupidist things I've ever read -- a soldier who can take a bullet can't take a beer. Thank you effing MADD!
34 posted on 02/19/2007 2:39:18 AM PST by JoeGar
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What a hatchet job. And the comments from readers are equally disrespectful. It took everything I had to read the article and the comments.
T
35 posted on 02/19/2007 4:37:04 AM PST by trooprally (Never Give Up - Never Give In - Remember Our Troops)
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...Each morning they must rise at dawn for formation, though many are half-snowed on pain meds and sleeping pills.
That's called rehab in most hospital settings.
I hope this author never has to go to a rehab center and meet up with one of those "nasty" nurses that want them to get better.
I hope this story gets around. Every medical professional in the US will be all over these morons.
36 posted on 02/19/2007 4:47:33 AM PST by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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How about this ~ Dana Priest is not just your typical AlQaida running dog lackey, she's the very face of the class enemy.
That's something she will understand when she reads this.
37 posted on 02/19/2007 5:16:13 AM PST by muawiyah
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WRAMC...has been slated to be closed...it sits on a hiue campus on 16th st in DC...prime realestate developmnet property.....I wonder if this piece isn'nt just somebody's "insurance" that its closing will proceed as scheduled...
38 posted on 02/19/2007 5:18:22 AM PST by mo
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Dana Priest - treason!
39 posted on 02/19/2007 5:40:43 AM PST by cblue55
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These are my observations from the short time I was at WRAMC when my husband got wounded. The system is overwhelmed there. We heard from several soldiers that they had been there over a year waiting for their Med Board to take place or for the results of it. One soldier sought my husband out because he had heard he was in the 82nd. This soldier was also in the 82nd and had been there since the summer of '05 waiting for his Med Board to be completed. He ultimately sent his family back to his home state.
Hubby was there for 3 weeks and then got sent to the VA in Richmond for another 3 weeks for further rehab/treatment. They were telling us that after he left Richmond and his convalescent leave was over, he was going to have to be back at Walter Reed. We insisted that he be assigned back here to Fort Bragg because we had heard about the wait time and we didn't really want to live up there. It did take several calls and hubby's case manager was hard to locate (he got a new one in the middle of it all)...he didn't know he had a new one until he tried to call his old one! Our social worker at the VA couldn't even locate his case manager at WRAMC when he was getting discharged from the VA to get his convalescent leave squared away.
Fortunately, in the end, we were able to get what we wanted and get assigned back home, but we fought/aggressively campaigned for that. We let everyone from his doctors, to his nurses, social workers, case managers, etc know we wanted to be back at home. I do not understand why some soldiers have to wait up there for over a year. They should let them go back to their home base or home while the Medical Board process is taking place. I do understand why the Army keeps soldiers up there perhaps; it is hard to maintain control and ensure the soldiers are getting proper medical care back at home. Hubby has had to actively seek medical care here for his issues and sometimes it has been frustrating for him (especially to tell the story of what happened to him over and over), but he has been getting great care here at home. But, I realize some soldiers would get back home and not go seek out care. Maybe the Army could send them home and have the soldiers come check in at WRAMC every so often. I don't know the best answer to all of this.
All this said, my husband received excellent care on the battlefield, in the hospital in Iraq, at Landstuhl,at WRAMC and the VA. I'm convinced he would not be doing as well right now if he hadn't received the top notch care that he did.
40 posted on 02/19/2007 5:43:48 AM PST by rangerwife
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The Post is the paper of Washington leftist snobs.
41 posted on 02/19/2007 5:54:17 AM PST by popdonnelly ( are jubilant at our disasters and are cast down when the rebels are defeated -Sept. 1862)
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Please thank your husband for his service and I wish him a complete recovery.
42 posted on 02/19/2007 5:59:30 AM PST by CedarDave (VietNam Vet Remembers -- This Time ... SUPPORT the Troops, COMPLETE the Mission)
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You pretty much missed the article's intention.
kristinn, I see that FR's weekly counter-protest and show of military support is scrupulously avoided by these two hags.
Cowards.
43 posted on 02/19/2007 6:27:10 AM PST by prairiebreeze (I am PRO-VICTORY!!)
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Have at it ....I snagged it from someone else. Make it a poster .. bumper stick .. pin .. spread it around. How dare they !!!
44 posted on 02/19/2007 7:30:35 AM PST by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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I heard the obnoxious Jane Fleming throwing around nastiness about Walter Reed last night on Hannity's America. My first thought was "where the hell did she come up that?". Now I know. THIS is a disgrace and the WaPo needs a butt-whippin'.
45 posted on 02/19/2007 7:41:08 AM PST by Chickenhawk Warmonger (Those that sign the Resolution are agreeing to failure)
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The Washinton Post is not the only one attacking on the Walter Reed angle. This is a Democratic talking point I have seen on various TV news shows.
46 posted on 02/19/2007 8:11:07 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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Roger that...
;*) We have a consensus!!!
47 posted on 02/19/2007 8:37:15 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: kristinn
I have to make a voodoo doll named Dana Priest.
This is one of the most disgusting articles I have ever read in the history of my knowledge of the Washington Post.
Oh how horrible!
48 posted on 02/19/2007 8:41:08 AM PST by maica (America will be a hyperpower that's all hype and no power -- if we do not prevail in Iraq)
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It took them hundreds of hours to collect enough comments from discouraged or depressed patients and family members.
Hundreds of hours equals weeks of eight hour days, or months of visits. They really had to scour the halls to find some people making negative comments.
Anyone could spend hundreds of hours in any hospital anywhere and find discouraged and depressed people.
49 posted on 02/19/2007 8:46:34 AM PST by maica (America will be a hyperpower that's all hype and no power -- if we do not prevail in Iraq)
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To: popdonnelly
The Post is the paper of Washington leftist snobs.
Pravda on the Potomac
50 posted on 02/19/2007 9:04:16 AM PST by CDB (The Democrats "support the troops," in much the same way that a wet paper jock strap does)
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