We still await the jury verdict. This is a good summary of the case and what the jury asked for today. Chris Matthews asks several questions at the end of this clip. Did the White House receive a report? The answer is yes. The CIA sent a memo to the White House. Interestingly, I have never seen this memo.
The Pentagon has stated in a report that Basra is not safe. So, why is Tony Blair getting out? Oh, no. It was and is all about politics!! Or is it that the British military is at the breaking point. More fighting in Afghanistan. Continued fighting in Iraq. Which is it? Or perhaps it is both.
Chris Matthews of Hardball interviews Lt Gen Kevin Kiley who is in charge of all Army medical facilities. General Kiley says that they are fixing the problem.
This post is a follow up of of this post.
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From WaPo:
It’s not every day one gets to witness a whitewash in action, but Walter Reed Army Medical Center provided just such an opportunity yesterday.
In Sunday’s Washington Post, Dana Priest and Anne Hull described the woeful conditions of Room 205 in Walter Reed’s Building 18: “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 Army mobilized. Painters were deployed to cover the offending wall with a fresh coat of white semigloss. And television crews were invited in to inspect the result.
“Some of the paint is still wet against that wall, so be careful,” Walter Reed public affairs officer Donald Vandrey, standing on the bed in his socks, advised the film crews. “They just finished repainting it about 10 minutes ago.”
Mission accomplished? [Read more →]
Usually, I try to post music on the weekend. I’m working hard so I wanted to post some music today. Chaka Khan was Chick Corea’s special guest. What a nice tune.
More info on the pullout. Interesting to see how Cheney is trying to spin this. Notice the Bush hasn’t said a word.
This is the 8th helicopter to be shot down in Iraq this month. THIS MONTH!!
Almost lost in this story is the dirty explosion in Baghdad. A car bomb with chlorine gas in the car exploded. Chlorine gas (as known as mustard gas) adds a deadly punch to the explosion. I have no idea if the chlorine would intensify the explosion. Chlorine is a highly reactive chemical.
Iraq keeps going from bad to worse.
Finally, the jury has the case. The vid is a good summary of the jury instructions.
No conspiracy as I see it. In the late 60’s when the first studies were done only men were included. Men were dying at age 40 - 55. Women were not dying until they got into their 60’s and 70’s. Therefore, there are few women dying. Medicine woke up as we, as a nation, grew older.
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From USA Today:
Most women carry a higher long-term risk of heart disease than they realize and should act now to prevent heart attacks and stroke, say American Heart Association guidelines issued today.
The guidelines are more far-reaching than those released in 2004. They focus not on a woman’s immediate risk but what is likely to happen as she ages.
“Many women can be at low short-term risk, but in the course of a woman’s life, she has a nearly 1-in-3 chance of dying of heart disease,” says Lori Mosca, director of preventive cardiology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. “It’s misguided to think you have a low risk of a condition you have a 1-in-3 chance of dying of.
“Right now, 34% of American women (38 million) are living with heart disease,” says Mosca, chairwoman of the heart association’s guideline committee. “When you have something that common, it’s important we all take action to control our risk.”
No one knows precisely why women are less likely to have heart attacks or strokes as early in life as men do. Some experts say a young woman’s estrogen levels may be protective; others say the male hormone testosterone is harmful, says Jay Cohen of the University of Minnesota.
Cohen says he welcomes the new guidelines because as many women die of heart disease as men, just at a later age. “Really, we should be worried at 30 and 40 not about what’s going to happen in the next five years but what’s going to happen later on.” (more…)
Britian - cutting and running.
More on the Scooter Libby Trial.
Errington C. Thompson, MD, is a surgeon, scholar, fulltime sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats...
