http://defensetech.org/2007/01/23/iraqs-deadly-germs/ The Future of the Military, Law Enforcement and National Security Fri, 25 May 2012 14:16:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://defensetech.org/2007/01/23/iraqs-deadly-germs/#comment-155413 Solomon Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:45:46 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=3413#comment-155413 People dying not from combat related injuries but because of infectious bacteria in a military hospital is not a case of malice? Then to knowingly hide that fact from family members is not malice? We're not talking about "are we gonna be extended" or "I heard 2/5 got hit real hard last night", we're talking lives so put that RUMINT nonsense in your back pocket! You can't continue to excuse this type behavior. People dying not from combat related injuries but because of infectious bacteria in a military hospital is not a case of malice? Then to knowingly hide that fact from family members is not malice? We’re not talking about “are we gonna be extended” or “I heard 2/5 got hit real hard last night”, we’re talking lives so put that RUMINT nonsense in your back pocket!
You can’t continue to excuse this type behavior.

]]> http://defensetech.org/2007/01/23/iraqs-deadly-germs/#comment-59435 Noah Shachtman Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:53:45 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=3413#comment-59435 Mycroft: Point taken. nms Mycroft:
Point taken.
nms

]]> http://defensetech.org/2007/01/23/iraqs-deadly-germs/#comment-155412 Mycroft Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:03:24 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=3413#comment-155412 Always consider other motivations besides malice. Information unrelated to immediate, operational concerns doesn't spread well inside a bureaucracy. I suspect that the people asked were repeating what they'd heard to be truth, and not looking further. RUMINT is the primary means of getting information inside the DoD system, after all. Always consider other motivations besides malice. Information unrelated to immediate, operational concerns doesn’t spread well inside a bureaucracy.
I suspect that the people asked were repeating what they’d heard to be truth, and not looking further. RUMINT is the primary means of getting information inside the DoD system, after all.

]]> http://defensetech.org/2007/01/23/iraqs-deadly-germs/#comment-155411 Solomon Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:44:38 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=3413#comment-155411 Why Lie? All a matter of leadership. I have never seen the officer corps so screwed up as it is now. The lack of courage on all parts (not speaking of the troops here, but of the civilian and military leadership) is breathtaking. To lose a loved one in a far off land is one thing but to lie to them is something else entirely. Whoever is pushing this type action needs to roast in hell. Perhaps just as important...HAS THIS ISSUE BEEN RESOLVED!?!? Or is it just in the notification stage? Why Lie?
All a matter of leadership. I have never seen the officer corps so screwed up as it is now. The lack of courage on all parts (not speaking of the troops here, but of the civilian and military leadership) is breathtaking.
To lose a loved one in a far off land is one thing but to lie to them is something else entirely. Whoever is pushing this type action needs to roast in hell.
Perhaps just as important…HAS THIS ISSUE BEEN RESOLVED!?!? Or is it just in the notification stage?

]]> http://defensetech.org/2007/01/23/iraqs-deadly-germs/#comment-59432 Big Daddy Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:34:24 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=3413#comment-59432 They lie because that's what they do. They don't understand the concept of telling the truth. Never did and never will..... I talk from personal experience. They lie because that’s what they do.
They don’t understand the concept of telling the truth. Never did and never will.….
I talk from personal experience.

]]> http://defensetech.org/2007/01/23/iraqs-deadly-germs/#comment-155410 Marcie Hascall Clark Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:49:48 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=3413#comment-155410 Why Lie? The DOD's typical knee jerk reaction to mistakes, cover them up. In the case of acinetobacter, maybe what we don't know won't hurt us, except that it's deadly this time. My husband got it after being blown up and they kept information from us even when I learned enough to start asking about it. They never released his medical records or lab reports to his civilian doctors who handled it very badly. He was overdosed on antibiotics that it wasn't even senstive too. They have been very negligent all the way around. They failed to diagnose the leishmaniasis my had while in their care also. That's good one we need to talk about to. It's as ugly as it sounds. Why Lie?
The DOD’s typical knee jerk reaction to mistakes, cover them up. In the case of acinetobacter, maybe what we don’t know won’t hurt us, except that it’s deadly this time.
My husband got it after being blown up and they kept information from us even when I learned enough to start asking about it. They never released his medical records or lab reports to his civilian doctors who handled it very badly. He was overdosed on antibiotics that it wasn’t even senstive too.
They have been very negligent all the way around.
They failed to diagnose the leishmaniasis my had while in their care also.
That’s good one we need to talk about to.
It’s as ugly as it sounds.

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