Which is easier, treating traumatic brain injury -- which is not all that well understood and can be very expensive and prevents soldiers who can stand upright with no visible wounds from going back downrange -- or not testing for it at all? Only a handful of the 320,000 Iraq and Afghan war veterans have been tested and/or treated.
Meanwhile FEMA is asking for a pass on any lawsuits related to formaldehyde soaked trailers provided to Katrina survivors. The official position of the Butch Adminstration is that the gummint should be protected from "judicial second-guessing."
Courts should be only used for their intended purposes of protecting the rights of owners and bosses.
This only reinforces what we were pretty sure we already knew: the real reason Bush & Co. didn't respond quickly after Katrina was that they figured everyone was already dead. When they got word that formaldehyde was in the trailers, their first reaction was undoubtedly to think
ReplyDelete1. that will help preserve the corpses and then
2. we'd better keep quiet or they'll charge extra.