Paul Rieckhoff returned to my KMOX show this afternoon to respond to a GAO report that says that the problems with care for our returning veterans are far from solved. In fact, there's been little progress since Congress and the President used all those photo ops earlier this year to promise that the system would be fixed and our soldiers taken care of.
I also asked Reickhoff for his reaction to the Iraq war status report by General Petraeus a couple of weeks ago. Rieckhoff is executive director of Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Iraq Vets Still Not Getting Care
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Setting up the fcilities and securing qualified personnel may not be as easy as one might think.
Securing sufficent space is one thing but acquiring well trained staffers could be difficult. There is a lot of competition in the health care industry (yes that is what it is).
they get a free ride for life which is a good deal
Being a soldier in time of war is like rolling the dice, you win and come back or loose and don't.
I think the payoff should be like any other lottery. Those who make it home should be given every advantage. Perhaps at the moment there are those who do not see the fairness of taking care of them for life, but consider___if at one moment in history that man and those like him had not been there, your life might be very different. We are presuming that you are still alive to experience that difference.
Can one man or woman be that important? History has proven over and over that the right person at the right time has made a difference from minor to major to world changing. That is the lesson of history
I have noticed that there does seem, on the surface, to be a difference between the vets of ww2, Korea,vietnam, and now for the troops in Iraq___both times.
I, personally, know a vet of ww2 (of which there are few left).
He has and is given every consideration and the best of care.
I know a vet of the Vietnam war and he is not getting the best our country can offer. Perhaps in another 40 or 50 years the government may admit their responsibility for agent orange and it's effects on so many. By that time almost all of the guys will be dead and so there will be no repercussions.
Governments make promises in time of crisis that cannot be kept or they do not intend to keep. Welcome to the real world of political values. The offers made could grow as large as the SS issue now blooming out of hand.
Those who enlist for a tour in time of peace for educational purposes and a better interest rate on a home should not receive any other benefits, unless they are damaged during time on the job. The got the etras for which they signed up. Those who go to waR or other dangerous assignments that could get them killed should receive full benefits
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