by Scott Creighton
Perhaps the most horrific story on the brutality of the Afghan occupation that you are going to see all year. They tried to cover it up for various reasons; they didn’t want bad press coming out of Afghanistan and at least one 3 star general didn’t want to embarrass President Obama before the election. An 11.2 billion dollar training program paid for by the US taxpayers. The hospital is run at a level of malfeasance that goes well beyond what any sane person would call corruption. Doctors and nurses forcing the families of the soldiers to pay bribes for the treatment of their loved ones. Medications being routinely sold on the black market to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Death squads roaming the hallways…. all of this under the watchful eye of the US trainers who were there and on staff. The photos at the Information Clearinghouse site (link below) are grotesque to say the least. And this went on for years. Gen. Petraeus was apparently briefed on this years ago and did nothing. He now runs the CIA as a proxy for Panetta. The conditions these soldiers were kept in rivals anything that I have heard of being done to POWs in Vietnam or even Japan.
Colonel Gerald Nicholas Carozza: “Patients were lying in filth, in some cases starving and with grotesque bed sores. One patient was on the brink of starving to death.”…
…“The Patients’ Bill of Rights posters were found ripped off the walls lying on the ground torn to pieces ‘to allow for painting of the walls.’”…
…Colonel Schuyler K. Geller: “Afghan soldiers’ families have sold their farms and indentured themselves for healthcare in the US- and coalition-supported Daoud Khan Hospital.”
This story is getting very little attention from the MSM. Here is the hearing…
The Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense, and Foreign Operations held a hearing entitled, “Dawood National Military Hospital, Afghanistan: What Happened and What Went Wrong?” on July 24, 2012.
Go here to view photos and read the congressional testimony.
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I was eating when I saw a story about this on RT last night. They showed the pictures. I stopped eating. A few “bad apples” will no doubt be held accountable while nobody near the top will be, as usual. Petraeus is a psychopath, like every “good” CIA chief.
Sounds like a test run for here.
It does, doesn’t it?
Well, why not? Always easier for those balls of shit to experiment on the “unpeople”…
I know, I’ve been telling these people who want to see all the Arabs dead, or what have you, from the start what they wish for others will come home to bite them. If it was Christians (and I use the term loosely in this regard to them) over there they would make them look just as bad, and likely have an easier time doing it, to get everybody to hate them so the could. Seems though that also is coming home.
Too bad people never understand how the problems and plights of those who suffer in silence are linked to their own lives…
Hi Scott – Minor typo alert: on line 7 it says “pay brides” should probably be “pay bribes”..
thanks
This is absolutely disgusting and it shows that these fascists have 0 regard for human life and dignity. They truly are the scum of the earth.
Amen to that brother. Every time someone labels low-life criminals as th true monsters of our world, I hear a part of my body die. They have no idea who the real monsters are. Even more awful considering everyday criminals are often created as side effects of the actions of these fascist balls of shit!