Senator Clinton Calls For Fort Bragg Investigation
Wed, 04/30/2008 - 11:03am
Via Digby from the Fayetteville (NC) Observer:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said in an interview Tuesday that she will call for a congressional hearing in response to an online video that shows poor living conditions at barracks on Fort Bragg.
The Fayetteville Observer first reported Friday that Ed Frawley, the father of an 82nd Airborne soldier, uploaded a video to YouTube showing peeling paint, exposed pipes, mildewed ceilings and showers, a broken toilet seat and a bathroom floor covered in sewage because of a clogged drain. Since last week, the video has logged more than 91,000 views on YouTube.
In a phone interview Tuesday afternoon with the Observer, Clinton said from Indiana that she asked Democratic Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, to hold a hearing on Fort Bragg’s barracks and the broader issue of the conditions troops are returning to on installations across the country.
For once, I'd appreciate it if the wusses that make up most of our cable media would ask their BBQ Cooking Maverick how we're supposed to pay for another 100 years of Iraq when we can't even pay for what we've done so far.
And bravo to Senator Clinton for calling for an investigation. This video should be running at the beginning of every single national news cast until we get some answers from our current administration and from those who want to lead the next administration.
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not surprising
By John McClelland
Thu, 05/01/2008 - 3:54pm
The conditions at Ft Bragg are not surprising. Having spent most of my formative years in North Carolina, I know Fayetteville, a.k.a. Fayettenam, pretty well. It is home to many strip clubs and plenty of poor people. Ft Bragg itself looks like it is stuck in a time warp, having not been updated much since it was built. But this is typical of how the government treats its soldiers lately. If not for the 82nd Airborne Division, Ft Bragg would just be another throw away base.
We can not continue to treat them as throw away toys on a game board. They are real people who have given up their time, and in some cases their lives, to protect our country. Time for the government to wake up.