{"id":20421,"date":"2010-09-09T13:45:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T17:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20421"},"modified":"2010-09-09T14:11:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T18:11:06","slug":"tammy-duckworth-dunce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20421","title":{"rendered":"Tammy Duckworth, dunce"},"content":{"rendered":"

I always get in trouble when i write about combat veteran amputee Tammy Duckworth, but usually when I write about the woman, it’s because she does such stupid shit and says such stupid shit that i can’t help myself because she infuriates me so much. For example, COB6 sent me this link from Bryan Preston at Pajamas Media<\/a> a veteran himself, who writes about a visit that Duckworth made to wounded veterans in Illinois where Duckworth once served as the director of the state veteran agency;<\/p>\n

One of the veterans at the session, Jason Wheeler, 39, of Champaign, was injured eight years ago in training at Fort Polk, La. In a wheelchair, he still suffers from a nerve condition that makes it feels as if his hands and legs “are on fire,” he said.<\/p>\n

“There’s not the same help for the guys who were injured stateside,” Wheeler said.<\/p>\n

“This unfortunately is the result of dollars. It’s money,” Duckworth said. “I think that we as a nation would want to take care of all of our veterans. But it means that we’re going to have be willing to get the folks in Washington to spend the dollars on all of our veterans. And as long as there aren’t enough dollars, then they are force to prioritize veterans.<\/p>\n

“And combat-connected, disabled veterans are the highest priority. That is why when you and I go to the VA they will take care of me first because I am combat-connected,” noted Duckworth, who lost both of her legs when the helicopter she was co-piloting in Iraq in 2004 was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.<\/p>\n

“The difference is how did you get hurt. Unfortunately that’s just the way that … it’s a bureaucracy that was put into place in previous administrations in order to prioritize veterans because they didn’t spend enough to take care of everyone,” Duckworth told Wheeler.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stupid shit, no? If Duckworth had actually paid attention during her military career, she’d know that training for war is just as dangerous as actual war. I can’t count the number of times we evacuated soldiers from the training area, some dead, some maimed for life – just as dead and just as maimed as a combat casualty. Requiring the same long term care as a similar combat injury. And the DVA knows that.<\/p>\n

Duckworth, the DVA official who should know how to correctly answer the soldier, told him a lie. There is no priority system for the geographical location of the occurrence of an injury. An injured veteran gets the same level of care for any injury. Duckworth should have known that, she probably knew that. As Preston points out, it was probably a “Blame Bush” moment. <\/p>\n

It should have been a Blame Duckworth moment since she was supervising veteran care in Illinois before she went to the federal veteran care agency. She might have her ass in a wheelchair, but that’s no excuse to act like her brain has been amputated, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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