Unforgivable Moral Affront.

It took Sen. Jim Webb a year and a half to pass the 21st Century GI Bill, and it was done over the objections of Sen. John McCain and the White House.

Bush Visits Walter Reed, Site Of Symbolic Failure

Nearly two years after massive controversy erupted over the treatment of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed, George W. Bush will be visiting the medical center on Monday for, likely, his last time as president.
Accompanied by the first lady, Bush will officially be honoring the One Warm Coat Holiday Service Project, according to the Associated Press. There is, however, a thick thread of political symbolism to the affair.
For many Americans, the failure of the government to anticipate and then remedy the conditions at Walter Reed was an unforgivable moral affront. The moldy ceilings, leaky plumage, rodent infestations and bureaucratic bundling were disturbing in and of themselves. That these indignities were inflicted on soldiers that the administration had sent to fight a controversial war was maddening.