Does anyone have an LTTE on the Walter Reed story?

[CTyankee]

If so, would you share it with me? I'd like to do my own very quickly to my local paper, The New Haven Register, because I have seen NO coverage! I've been in bed sick for the last few days due to a nasty cold but have staggered to work today and hope to be operative somewhat fully by tomorrow.

If not a letter, a summary will do. I can certainly put together the fine points from whatever anyone can offer me. They'll probably print it since I haven't written for a while.

Thanks, all!:hi:

[flamin lib]

1. Submitted, not printed (yet?)

Representative Jack Murtha (D PA) is proposing legislation that would provide troops bound for Iraq body armor, sufficient training for the operation and time to recuperate with family between tours of duty. This legislation doesn’t oppose the “surge” and it doesn’t restrict the President’s power as Commander in Chief, it simply requires soldiers going into combat be equipped and prepared.

Republicans oppose Murtha’s measure, but who could reasonably vote to send ill prepared and poorly equipped soldiers into battle? What sense does that make?

Conditions at Walter Reed show us what those troops can expect when the inevitable consequences of their deployment come to pass. Republican leaders call Murtha’s plan the “slow bleed”. I beg to disagree. What’s happening to our retuning casualties is the real slow bleed.

[CTyankee]

2. Great! Thank you!

I also want to reveal the Walter Reed story to people who don't have the Washington Post to read. They are not getting the story in the Register and it's not on our local ABC affiliate nor on the national news. If I hadn't been so sick for the last few days I would have been on this more quickly!

What I want to say in my letter is that without the active press coverage of such outrages, the populace is deprived of the means of acquiring knowledge they need to operate our democracy. The press play a critical role in this.

I love your last line, where you throw "slow bleed" back at them!