Reply #10: Because these are poor white, black and hispanic

[bodhisattava]

soldiers who are forced to volunteer to earn a living, nobody gives a damn if they are wounded or dead.The attitude of the press and TV would be quite different if Rumsfeld, Cheney or Bush's children were
on combat duty.

It is a sad commentary on our " leaders" that they cannot find the time to visit these soldiers at Walter Reed.Instead, we are told a thousand and one times that Bush is going for his summer vacation
in Crawford.

He was AWOL in Vietnam.He is now AWOL even for visiting our wouded soldiers. This in a country that has produced leaders like Patton and Eisenhower. The shame one feels is overwhelming.