Vets vs Gitmo Prisoners

- May 28, 2014

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	Vets vs Gitmo Prisoners In a stunning statement of this administration's priorities, prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are treated better than our own veterans. According to retired Navy Commander J.D. Gordon, there are about 100 doctors, nurses and healthcare providers assigned to treat 150 Gitmo prisoners. That's a ratio of about 1.5 prisoners for every one doctor. Meanwhile, our VA healthcare system treats 9 million veterans yet we have 267,930 VA employees. That measures up to a ratio of 35 veterans for a every one VA healthcare professional. In other words, terrorists at Gitmo have easier access to care than Americans who have risked their lives defending our freedom. It's hard to imagine a greater injustice. Another stunning revelation related to the VA comes from Los Angeles, California. As many as 60 bodies of veterans have sat in an L.A. morgue for over a year and a half. Just recently, 28 bodies were finally moved to the Riverside National Cemetery for a proper burial. These stories keep coming day after day and demonstrate that there is a lot of work to be done in order to get our veterans the care they've deserved all along.

Where Are They Now?
Apparently leaking secret identities is only outrageous if it is done by a Republican administration. About ten years ago, Democrats in Washington and the liberal media establishment were outraged after a State Department official in the Bush administration leaked the name of CIA employee Valerie Plame.

Plame's identity was mistakenly revealed by State Department official Richard Armitage. It shouldn't have happened, but it did and Democrats were hyperventilating over the need to punish the administration for such a mistake. At the time, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and others made statements of this being a breach of national security that "cannot be tolerated" and people need to be held accountable. Millions of dollars were spent on an investigation, which they tried to pin on the Bush White House when it was known from early on that the leak came from the State Department...(continued)

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