Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Misplaced Priorities

The Army said yesterday, against the advice of its own auditors, that it would not hold back tens of millions of dollars each month from the Halliburton Company until the company justifies bills for past work in Iraq, while hundreds of Army Reserve and National Guard troops returning home after being wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan have gone months without pay or medical benefits they were entitled to receive.

Are the politicians who voted to increase by 15 times the maximum fine for broadcast indecency the same ones who want to severely limit awards to families of patients who are maimed or killed by incompetent doctors and hospitals?

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