Repuke Congress Didn’t Investigate Abu GhReed Because ‘They Did Not Want To Embarrass’ Bush

[Ian David]

Levin: Last Congress Didn’t Investigate Walter Reed Because ‘They Did Not Want To Embarrass’ Bush

On NBC’s Meet the Press today, Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) argued that the Senate Armed Services Committee did not conduct oversight of the treatment at military facilities in recent years because “they did not want to embarrass the President.” As the new chairman of the committee, Levin said he will be visiting Walter Reed this week and holding a hearing on March 6.

Levin decried the deplorable conditions at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. “Where we need a surge is not in Iraq. We need a surge of concern for our troops, for the veterans, for the injured, for the wounded, for the families of those who have lost loved ones. That’s the surge of concern and that’s the surge that we need,” Levin said. Watch it:



In its cover story, “Failing Our Wounded,” Newsweek reports that the government is struggling to care for an increasing number of injured soldiers. Newsweek’s investigation of the VA system “paints a grim portrait of an overloaded bureaucracy cluttered with red tape; veterans having to wait weeks or months for mental-health care and other appointments; families sliding into debt as VA case managers study disability claims over many months, and the seriously wounded requiring help from outside experts just to understand the VA’s arcane system of rights and benefits.”

More:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/25/levin-walter-reed/

[soothsayer]

1. so is HE going to investigate it?

[emulatorloo]

5. "As the new chairman of the committee, Levin said he will be visiting Walter Reed this week and hold

a hearing"

[Bluzmann57]

2. Of course if a President commits adultery

The republic Congress won't even think twice about spending $42,000,000 of our money to find out how they can do it too, I mean to find out what happened. Fuckin' idiots.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Instead, they embarrassed themselves.

[izzie]

4. Well sure I think that is why. Also wasn't it said by the GOP

they were going to take over the govt. and it was going to be the only party? A permanent thing. As if any party could do that like the USSR. But I swear we were hearing some of the far right saying silly things like that. They made what was real real and all sort of crazy statements. I am sure they planed to ride Bush into all the power and Cheney is still doing it.

[DBoon]

6. oh, this was a very real goal

not electoral victory, but the complete elimination of any electoral opposition, meaning their goal was to destroy the Democratic Party.

The modern republican party is NOT a parliamentary party in any sense, it has more in common with elitist totalitarian movements of the mid 20th century.

[izzie]

7. I think more in the GOP are seeing that but for the Far Right

this statement---The modern republican party is NOT a parliamentary party in any sense, it has more in common with elitist totalitarian movements of the mid 20th century----fits with only part of that party and a percent that seems to have a lot of control of who is in office. It was a shock to me that these people got so much power as it so anti-Am. In a country the under the constitutions the minority is always(we try) safe and generally how we are led to think, that this very minority would be working to take over the majority and force us to live under their rules such as Lenin did. The oddest part is how when this type govt. gets in power that they are sure to eat their own. They always do. It always helps to have the police, courts and military with you and Bush is moving fast to get that all in line now. If one does not just let 'martial law' flow into their brains I think they are not with it. Bad days ahead, we have almost two years to go with this two power guys in the WH and Congress still does not stand up in a way to do a thing. Or it is early for them yet but so far it is iffy.