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Ärende: Veterans
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The GOP to veterans with brain injuries: "Screw you."

Money for Brain Injury Treatment for Troops Slashed
Outraged Veterans Say Congress 'Out of Touch'

By JOHN YANG

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2006 

The head of biggest combat veterans groups lambasted congressional 
action that cut in half federal funding for the research and treatment 
of brain injuries caused by explosions, which one neurology expert has 
called the signature injury of the war in Iraq.

The proposed funding cut "clearly indicates that the Congress is out of 
touch with the realities and consequences of war," Jim Mueller, the 
outgoing commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and a 
Vietnam War veteran, said in a written statement. "You either take care 
of the troops or you do not."

Vice President Cheney, addressing the group's national convention in 
Reno, Nev., Monday pledged to "enhance the respect shown by our 
government to veterans ... not just in words but in resources."

The Bush administration has requested $7 million in funding for the 
Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center as it has done for the last 
several years, but in the past, Congress has given the center another $7 
million, for a total of $14 million. This year, though, Congress has not 
added the additional funding. 

The House passed its version of the spending bill in June and the Senate 
is to take up the bill when lawmakers return from their August recess.

A spokesman for the Senate Appropriations Committee said the reduction 
in funding from previous years was the result of spending restraints.

The center, actually a network of facilities around the country, is a 
collaboration between the Pentagon and the Veterans Affairs Department. 
Founded in 1992, it operates at seven military and VA medical centers 
around the nation, and runs a civilian clinic in Charlottesville, Va.

In addition to treating combat veterans, the centers also treat other 
government employees, including State Department officials who have 
suffered traumatic brain injuries in the line of their official duties. 
The program also researches ways to better diagnose brain injuries.

Traumatic brain injuries result from a violent blow to the head -- 
what's known as a closed-head injury -- or from a bullet or shrapnel 
that penetrates the brain.

George Zitnay, a Charlottesville brain injury expert who is a co-founder 
of the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, told ABC News earlier 
this year that traumatic brain injury is the "signature injury of the 
war on terrorism."

That's because of the proliferation of roadside bombs in Iraq and 
improved body armor that shields troops from lethal wounds but can do 
nothing about the violent jolts to even helmeted heads that can damage 
the brain as it bounces off the inside of the skull.

As a result, more troops are surviving injuries suffered in Iraq than in 
previous wars, but more troops are surviving with permanent injuries. 
According to Pentagon data reported in the New England Journal of 
Medicine, only about 10 percent of wounds in Iraq are lethal -- less 
than half the rate in the first Persian Gulf War, Vietnam and Korea 
each, and a full one-third of the rate in World War II.

By one estimate, as many as 10 percent of all troops in Iraq and up to 
20 percent of front-line infantry suffer concussions during combat 
tours.

Traumatic brain injury can have a wide range of effects. Depending on 
the part of the brain that's damaged, victims can have difficulty 
understanding or formulating speech, counting or doing simple math, or 
undergo personality changes.

"It is absolutely inexcusable that lawmakers would slash funding during 
a time of war for a research center that is earning its keep by 
addressing the exact types of injuries our troops are suffering," said 
Jim Mueller of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. "This research center is an 
investment in the future potential of traumatically disabled soldiers. 
It is not an expense."

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