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DEMOCRATIC PARTY COMMITTEE IN PORTUGAL Rua Dr. A. B. Vasconcelos 9 Azenhas do Mar PT-2705-088 COLARES, PORTUGAL
TEL/FAX (351 21) 929 1372
2007-03-10
The following Resolution was voted on and passed at the Committee/Election Meeting held Saturday 10 March 2007 in the meeting room of Edificino Neptuno, Rua de Torre, Cascais, Portugal:
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Administration of Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC has neglected to care for over 700 US military outpatients;
WHEREAS, this neglect includes housing and obstructions to the wounded from obtaining pensions and veterans’ benefits;
WHEREAS, from reading the series of stories in the Washington Post it appears that the obstructions were intentional on the part of the administration of the hospital and possibly on the part of the leaders and former leaders in the Department of Defense;
WHEREAS, Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge vetoed the bonus of veterans of World War I in 1922 and 1924;
WHEREAS, President Herbert Hoover ordered the US Army to drive the Bonus Marchers out of Washington, DC in 1932;
WHEREAS, the Reagan-Bush administration made war on the poor by preventing the poor from obtaining Social Security and Veterans’ Disability Compensation;
WHEREAS, the President George W Bush Administration continues the policy of Republican Administrations to deprive veterans of entitlements;
WHEREAS, Walter Reed Hospital is on the base closure list set to close in 2011 despite rising wounded in action numbers clearly unplanned for by the George W Bush Administration;
WHEREAS, the decision of the US Army to privatize support services at Walter Reed Hospital as reported in a September 2006 internal memo in which the number of Federal employees working in support roles at the facility dropped from 300 to under 60 resulting in a prediction of mission failure;
BE IT RESOLVED:
THAT, the Democratic Party Committee in Portugal petitions the Congress of the United States to investigate the allegations against the Walter Reed Hospital and the Department of Defense and punish the guilty parties.
Respectfully submitted,
Gilbert Wells, Chair
Ccs: The Honorable Carl Levin Chair, Armed Services Committee US Senate
The Honorable Daniel Akaka Chair, Veterans’s Affairs Committee US Senate
The Honorable Ike Skelton Chair, Armed Services Committee US House of Representatives
The Honorable Bob Filner Chair, Veterans’ Affairs Committee US House of Representatives |