A soldier commits suicide and his body hangs for four days decomposing while no one checks on him.  This didn't happen in some remote outpost in Iraq or Afghanistan, but in one of the outpatient facilities at Walter Reed Hospital.

Army Master Sgt. James Curtis Coons was at Walter Reed for treatment after an attempted suicide in Kuwait. He should have been in a lockdown unit where he could be watched 24/7 but, instead, he was treated as an outpatient.  When he failed to show up for an appointment, no one even looked in on him to see if he was OK. What the hell is going on?  This happened four years ago!

What did George W. Bush really know about the treatment of soldiers at Walter Reid hospital?  Is Bush's supposed ignorance really just another "no one could have predicted the breach of the levees" moment?  What did Donald Rumsfeld know about how Walter Reed has failed veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?  When did Robert Gates really find out?  And if Bush, Rumsfeld, and Gates really didn't know, why weren't they told?  We need to know the answers to these questions.  

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Dan Plesch reports in The New Statesman today that U.S. plans for an attack on Iran are now complete and "could be implemented any day."

Planning for an attack on Iran that could "destroy Iran's military, political and economic infrastructure overnight" began immediately after Saddam Hussein was removed from power.

According to this article, the second carrier group that is now headed to the gulf does not even need to be there for the attack to happen!

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