While Republicans Insist Democrats Want to Cut Support To Troops, It's Bush's Pentagon Bankrupting Our Soldiers

We've heard numerous additional reports the last few weeks - and stretching back right to the October 2001 start of aggression against Afghanistan and our March 2003 entry into the Iraq War - that the Pentagon, which just keeps collecting more money for nothing but defense contractors and consultants who can get nothing right, is not equipping or supporting our troops.

Now comes this report in the Washington Post about the deplorable conditions under which our war-injured American troops face and must suffer through once Bush's constant state of war fells them:

Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan’s room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see the bathtub on the floor above through a rotted hole. The entire building, constructed between the world wars, often smells like greasy carry-out. Signs of neglect are everywhere: mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, stained carpets, cheap mattresses.

This is the world of Building 18, not the kind of place where Duncan expected to recover when he was evacuated to Walter Reed Army Medical Center from Iraq last February with a broken neck and a shredded left ear, nearly dead from blood loss. But the old lodge, just outside the gates of the hospital and five miles up the road from the White House, has housed hundreds of maimed soldiers recuperating from injuries suffered in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Thanks to Think Progress for the pointer.