Germs wage war in Iraq and Case Worker Layoffs

The ArmyTimes is reporting layoffs of case workers who handle advocacy and needs of the severely wounded and their families.  Supporting the troops is apparently hitting hard up against DoD cost cutting measures.  I suspect Congressional approval wasn't involved in this decision.

http://www.armytimes.com/...

But if a soldier is severely wounded, there's another set of killers on the loose ready to take advantage of weakened health - super germs:

http://www.wired.com/...

To refine Pogo, we have met the enemy and he is within our guts.

It's hard to believe that at the same time there is an emerging problem with germs resisting our best antibiotics and killing our already wounded soldiers, that case workers, whose job it was to advocate for soldiers who can't advocate for themselves, are being laid off this Friday.

I'm hoping the Congressional staff and representatives perusing this blog take note of this amazing retreat on serving those who sacrificed their wholeness and now must live wounded, while being asked to esculate the involvement and commitment of the active soldier.  I also hope they grasp the ecological implications.

This is the ecological implications.  We are putting into the environment of the Middle East super bug versions of their own native bacteria, setting up a risk of near genocidal infections.  Due to our overaggressive medical treatment programs, we've bred supergerms that resist our best medicines.  

Now this is unleashed on the Middle East and wherever our wounded soldiers and medical staff 'carriers' visit along their long journey home.  Amazing, we didn't find the nuclear or biological weapons of mass destruction back in 2003, but, now in 2007, thanks to our long intervention we have depleted uranium sprayed everywhere and these super germs unleashed in the region.  I imagine the Israelis, Iraqis, Iranians, Saudis, etc. will find this development very unsettling.

Start a biological wanted poster for:

MRSA - methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Acinetobacter baumannii

and, the invaders we naturally carry within our guts:

Clostridium difficile

•  This is not good news at all. These troops are

  run down and tired.  When they are injured infections are more likely to take a good hold.

  by Owllwoman on Wed Jan 24, 2007 at 04:12:40 PM PDT

  •  And now the infections are far more deadly

    I'm just appalled at both the double whammy deprivation of case workers for the wounded and the biological hazards that now come with becoming wounded.

    Isn't it an amazing crime that hazard and battle pay ends the day you're shot or wounded?  Now they're fighting for their lives and W's crew pulls case worker support and has a biological stew waiting for them that is likely to keep them from ever getting home.

    by antirove on Wed Jan 24, 2007 at 04:47:42 PM PDT