( http://bucknacktssordidtawdryblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/another-runaway-general-army-deploys.html ). He is a disgrace to our nation and the US Military and must face charges for his crimes in Afghanistan.
From BuzzFeed.....
If you look at only one story about the Afghan War this year, make it this one.
An explosive Congressional investigation revealed horrific new details
this week about a U.S. funded military hospital in Afghanistan that kept
patients in “Auschwitz-like” conditions. Warning: Graphic images.
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Source: pukhtoonistangazette.com
An explosive Congressional investigation revealed horrific new
details this week about a U.S. funded military hospital in Afghanistan
that kept patients in "Auschwitz-like" conditions.
The investigation also revealed that Lt. General William B. Caldwell, then commander of the $11.2 billion dollar a year Afghan training program, tried to block the probe and ordered a cover-up.
There are currently two ongoing investigations looking into the Dawood Military Hospital abuses: one centered around the Military Whistleblower Protection Act, the other concerned with Caldwell’s politically-motivated decision to delay investigations into the hospital until after the 2010 elections.
What follows is a very disturbing look inside the Dawood National Military Hospital. It was compiled with sworn eye-witness testimony from the three U.S. Army colonels who blew the whistle on the scandal, as well as never-before published photos obtained by BuzzFeed.
The photos and corresponding descriptions were collected by U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan.
The images are extremely graphic.
The investigation also revealed that Lt. General William B. Caldwell, then commander of the $11.2 billion dollar a year Afghan training program, tried to block the probe and ordered a cover-up.
There are currently two ongoing investigations looking into the Dawood Military Hospital abuses: one centered around the Military Whistleblower Protection Act, the other concerned with Caldwell’s politically-motivated decision to delay investigations into the hospital until after the 2010 elections.
What follows is a very disturbing look inside the Dawood National Military Hospital. It was compiled with sworn eye-witness testimony from the three U.S. Army colonels who blew the whistle on the scandal, as well as never-before published photos obtained by BuzzFeed.
The photos and corresponding descriptions were collected by U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan.
The images are extremely graphic.
Colonel Gerald Nicholas Carozza: “Patients were lying in filth, in some cases starving and with grotesque bed sores. One patient was on the brink of starving to death.”
A patient's untreated wound.
“The Patients’ Bill of Rights posters were found ripped off the walls lying on the ground torn to pieces ‘to allow for painting of the walls.’”
"The Auschwitz like conditions at the National Military Hospital.”
Maggots began falling out of this patient's wounds. He died a week later.
Colonel Schuyler K. Geller: "Afghan soldiers’ families have sold their farms and indentured themselves for healthcare in the US- and coalition-supported Daoud Khan Hospital.”
Colonel Mark Fassl: "Open baths of blood draining out of soldiers' wounds, the feces on the floor."
Col. Fassl: "How could we be allowing this type of suffering to go on?"
Col. Geller: “Today, not just in 2010 or 2011, individuals...who perpetrated...unspeakable abuses upon Afghan soldiers, civilians and family members walk the halls of the Daoud Khan hospital unrepentant, unscathed, enriched, and still unprosecuted."
emperic or target Abx therapy, no cultures, no antibiotics."
Rep. John Tierney: "How many people went through that hospital and saw those conditions and said nothing?"
Col. Carozza: “The evidence is clear to me that this was politics with a small p - personal career driven politics."
Col. Geller: “When Col Pagel, accompanied by a young USMC Capt. attorney, asked me if there was any reason to believe LTG Caldwell delayed the investigations into the NMH I replied: ‘Any reason to believe? I know it for a fact.’”
Col. Carozza: "Lt. Gen. Caldwell screamed at these three officers, waving his finger at them for trying to bring in the DOD IG." Caldwell responded: "There is nothing wrong in this command that we can't fix ourselves."
Source: sin.stb.s-msn.com
Col. Carozza: “General Caldwell had the request withdrawn and postponed until after the election and then, after the election, tried to intimidate his subordinates into a consensus that it need not move forward at all."
Source: google.com
"How could we make this request with elections coming?" Caldwell reportedly said, referring to President Obama. "He calls me Bill."
Throughout the scandal and ensuing cover-up, the majority of the Dawood hospital staff has remained in place.
Caldwell is now running the U.S. Army North Command and is the senior commander of Texas’ Fort Sam Houston.
Of the above photos of patients, only 3 have been previously published. U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan have submitted approximately 70 photos of the abuses for investigation.
Caldwell is now running the U.S. Army North Command and is the senior commander of Texas’ Fort Sam Houston.
Of the above photos of patients, only 3 have been previously published. U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan have submitted approximately 70 photos of the abuses for investigation.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101136193/Colonel-Fassl-Testimony-Dawood-National-Military-Hospital-Afghanistan
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101136187/Blair-Testimony-Dawood-National-Military-Hospital-Afghanistan
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Horror Hospital: The Most Shocking Photos And Testimony From The Dawood Military Hospital Scandal
Report: U.S. General Ignored "Auschwitz-like" Conditions At Afghan Hospital
According to testimony today from three U.S. Army colonels, Lt.
General William Caldwell stopped an investigation for political reasons
into the conditions of an Afghan hospital described by a witness as
“Auschwitz-like.” “How could we make this request with elections
coming,” Caldwell reportedly said, referring to President Obama. “He
calls me Bill.”
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Explosive testimony today at the House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee accused one of the most senior officers in the U.S.
Army, General William Caldwell, of preventing an investigation into
horrible conditions at an Afghan military hospital.
"Two retired colonels who worked with the training command also told the [committee] that Caldwell did not want an inspector general's investigation of the Dawood National Military Hospital," according to the AP, adding that one colonel described "Auschwitz-like conditions" at the hospital.
Statements from the witnesses said that Caldwell, who was running the Afghan army training program at the time, was worried about political ramifications of a Defense Department investigation before the 2010 mid-term elections.
"How could we make this request with elections coming?" Caldwell said, according to one military officer, referring to President Obama. "He calls me Bill."
"The general did not want bad news to leave his command before the election or after the election," another retired colonel, Gerald Carozza, said in a statement.
Military and diplomatic sources say Caldwell believed he had a close relationship with President Obama, and that Obama "liked" him.
Conditions at the Afghan hospital were grim: patients starving to death, widespread malnutrition, defective morphine, and "maggots feeding off patients' open wounds," according to Maria Abi-Habib of the Wall Street Journal, who first broke the story last September.
In 2010, a whistleblower accused Caldwell, who now runs the U.S. Army North Command, of improperly using a propaganda team to attempt to persuade visiting Congressional representatives and other officials to provide more funds for the $11 billion-a-year mission to train the Afghan army.
An internal Army investigation cleared Caldwell and his command of wrong doing, including retaliating against the whistleblower, Lt. Col. Michael Holmes.
(After Holmes had raised concerns about the misuse of the propaganda team, Caldwell's staff ordered an investigation into his personal life, and removed Holmes from his post.)
Given these fresh allegations of corruption, Caldwell may be forced to testify before the committee at a later date.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/28/dawood-military-hospital-_n_1714027.html
"Two retired colonels who worked with the training command also told the [committee] that Caldwell did not want an inspector general's investigation of the Dawood National Military Hospital," according to the AP, adding that one colonel described "Auschwitz-like conditions" at the hospital.
Statements from the witnesses said that Caldwell, who was running the Afghan army training program at the time, was worried about political ramifications of a Defense Department investigation before the 2010 mid-term elections.
"How could we make this request with elections coming?" Caldwell said, according to one military officer, referring to President Obama. "He calls me Bill."
"The general did not want bad news to leave his command before the election or after the election," another retired colonel, Gerald Carozza, said in a statement.
Military and diplomatic sources say Caldwell believed he had a close relationship with President Obama, and that Obama "liked" him.
Conditions at the Afghan hospital were grim: patients starving to death, widespread malnutrition, defective morphine, and "maggots feeding off patients' open wounds," according to Maria Abi-Habib of the Wall Street Journal, who first broke the story last September.
In 2010, a whistleblower accused Caldwell, who now runs the U.S. Army North Command, of improperly using a propaganda team to attempt to persuade visiting Congressional representatives and other officials to provide more funds for the $11 billion-a-year mission to train the Afghan army.
An internal Army investigation cleared Caldwell and his command of wrong doing, including retaliating against the whistleblower, Lt. Col. Michael Holmes.
(After Holmes had raised concerns about the misuse of the propaganda team, Caldwell's staff ordered an investigation into his personal life, and removed Holmes from his post.)
Given these fresh allegations of corruption, Caldwell may be forced to testify before the committee at a later date.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/28/dawood-military-hospital-_n_1714027.html
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