George Bush loves to make the occassional stop at Walter Reed for the politically expedient photo ops with our heros wounded on the battlefield.

Instead of worrying about getting the photo ops, though, perhaps he could show the troops he REALLY supports them, by doing something about the disgusting conditions at Walter Reed.  No American who wears the uniform, should be subjected to these type of conditions at the army's top medical facility.

From a Washington Post article about the pathetic conditions at Walter Reed:

Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan's room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see the bathtub on the floor above through a rotted hole. The entire building, constructed between the world wars, often smells like greasy carry-out. Signs of neglect are everywhere: mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, stained carpets, cheap mattresses.

This is the world of Building 18, not the kind of place where Duncan expected to recover when he was evacuated to Walter Reed Army Medical Center from Iraq last February with a broken neck and a shredded left ear, nearly dead from blood loss. But the old lodge, just outside the gates of the hospital and five miles up the road from the White House, has housed hundreds of maimed soldiers recuperating from injuries suffered in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Forced to battle the system at Walter Reed

Wounded soldiers face neglect, frustration at Army’s top medical facility