What’s news today?
This certainly is. This is a shame. These folks did their duty, and govt stupidity prevents them from getting the care they’ve earned. It adds further insult to families who were already struggling financially and emotionally due to long separations. Now some are returning as shells of what they were, and we’re further stressing them and their families with nonsense like this.
And it’s also an example of govt controlled healthcare, and a preview of what’s to come for everyone.
From CNN
“This is Rioux’s life after Afghanistan, where firefights and a roadside bomb blast left him with a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.
His ears still ring from the explosions. He suffers from vertigo, headaches, insomnia and nightmares. He has terrible anxiety, evident in an interview with CNN — Rioux could hardly sit still, and his memory loss and inability to concentrate meant questions had to be repeated at times.”
“With the war in Iraq over and the one in Afghanistan winding down, the VA is sorting through a backlog of more than 860,000 disability claims from American veterans. More than a quarter of those vets — 228,000 — have been waiting for a year or more.
Rioux has been trying to get his disability claim fully processed since January 2011, shortly after he returned from Afghanistan.”
Read more here
That’s nearly 2 years folks. That’s entirely too long. They deserve better. They’ve earned it.
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UPDATE
It. Just. Gets. Worse.
The more we know, the more incompetent the Obama administration looks. We already know they lied repeatedly, now we’re getting answers as to why they lied.
Via The Daily Beast
“Jihadists twice set off explosives at the consulate prior to the incident that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, and announced threats on Facebook about escalating attacks on Western targets in the run-up to the 9/11 anniversary, according to whistleblowers reaching out to House Republicans.”
“In the five months leading up to this year’s 9/11 anniversary, there were two bombings on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and increasing threats to and attacks on the Libyan nationals hired to provide security at the U.S. missions in Tripoli and Benghazi.”
“The letter also discloses for the first time a bombing at the U.S. consulate that occurred on April 6, 2012. It says that on that day, two former security guards for the consulate in Benghazi threw homemade improvised explosives over the consulate fence. That incident resulted in no casualties. The Wall Street Journal first reported last month that on June 6 militants detonated an explosive at the perimeter gate of the consulate, blowing a hole through the barrier. The letter to Clinton quotes one source who described the crater as “big enough for forty men to go through.””
Read more here
So it wasn’t the first attack. And this info was kept secret.
Can you say coverup? I knew you could.
Also, the WSJ is reporting that the militants responsible were released from prison during the bombings we orchestrated to overthrow the govt. Nice job there Barry, but you picked the wrong horse.
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