Walter Reed hospital scandal 'hits at the heartstrings of America'

Mounting revelations about decrepit housing and mistreatment of injured soldiers at the U.S. Army's major medical complex have touched a raw nerve with the public and have sparked fierce bipartisan outrage on Capitol Hill.
Full Article, SF Chronicle, March 6, 2007

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Whoa Nellie!

Where has the corporate media been these past four years, hiding the human costs of war from the general public? Rolling over and playing footsie with the Fourth Reich when it insisted that the scope of carnage for empire and corporate profit not be broadcast.

Where is the outrage over DerBu$hler's lapdogs in the press minimizing the murder of over 650,000 Iraqis and barely--if at all--showing what all the maiming and killing is for (numbers courtesy of Public Citizen):

Since George Bush became President in 2001, the top five oil companies in the United States have recorded profits of $342.4 billion through the first quarter of 2006:
ExxonMobil: $118.2 billion
Shell: $82.3 billion
BP: $67.8 billion
ChevronTexaco: $43.1 billion
ConocoPhillips: $31.1 billion


Even now the mass media and the one-party CONgress is singling out a very small slice of a most horrific pie, failing to connect the dots, refusing to accept responsibility for what they have brought about.

TLC