Troops Return to Painful Wait for Needed Help
by Andrew Weaver and Ray McGovern

The California Nurses Association reported that in the first quarter of 2006, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs "treated 20,638 Iraq veterans for post-traumatic stress disorder, and they have a backlog of 400,000 cases." A returning soldier has to wait an average of 165 days for a VA decision on initial disability benefits, and an appeal can take up to three years.
This is unacceptable and reprehensible

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0204-21.htm

So how much of Bush's new Iraq war budget will go towards this? My bet ios zip zilch and nada seeing as under his watch it has taken Don Imus to get anything done for the returning troops. As a president this man is criminal as a commander in cheif he is criminally negligent.