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Bush cites strides in veterans' care
He visits a rehab center in Texas that treats severely injured troops.
By Washington Post
Published November 9, 2007
SAN ANTONIO - President Bush said Thursday that the federal government was making progress in removing red tape and tackling other issues that have complicated treatment of troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush said his administration had acted on several of the key recommendations of a high-level panel created to look into reports that stifling bureaucracy and shabby conditions were interfering with the recuperation of wounded service members. The president spoke after completing a two-hour tour of a 9-month-old medical center that is treating some of the military's most severely wounded troops. The $50-million rehabilitation facility, known as the Center for the Intrepid, opened at Brooke Army Medical Center at the end of January, paid for by private contributions from more than 600,000 people. Bush, who appeared moved by the end of his tour, watched Marine Lance Cpl. Matt Bradford of Winchester, Ky., make his way up a rock climbing wall. Bradford lost both legs and one eye, and has no vision in his other eye.
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