Former Pentagon Spokesman: Terrorists At Gitmo Receiving Better Care Than U.S. Veterans
On Friday, retired Navy Commander J.D. Gordon, who served as Pentagon spokesman in the Office of the Secretary of Defense between 2005 and 2009, penned a damning editorial about veterans’ hospitals in the U.S.
“Here’s another secret the White House doesn’t want you to know about the VA. Al Qaeda detainees get better medical treatment than our veterans,” the former official wrote for Fox.
Gordon’s assessment is based on the 30 visits he made to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base while working for the Pentagon.
Here are some shocking comparisons Gordon provides in his piece:
Despite the fact that Al Qaeda terrorists carried out the Sept. 11 terror attacks, killing 3,000 people in America, the admitted co-conspirators and their roughly 150 fellow jihadists at Gitmo have approximately 100 doctors, nurses and health care personnel assigned to them.Doctors and medical personnel are at their beck and call. Got a cold, a fever, a toothache, a tumor, chest or back pain, mental health issues, PTSD? No problem, come right on in. Military doctors are waiting to see you.The VA and Gitmo eligible patient-to-health care provider ratios speak volumes.While the Gitmo ratio is 1.5 to 1, for America’s 9 million veterans receiving VA health care and 267,930 VA employees, the ratio is 35 to 1.
The former top military official also notes that, while the President campaigned on closing Guantanamo Bay just as he had campaigned on reforming veterans’ care issues, the Administration tossed veterans aside once he entered the Oval Office.
“[T]heir focus was closing Guantanamo and improving the comfort of detainees. Even though they already lived under some of the best prison conditions ever seen,” Gordon writes.
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